Bitachon 213 - What You Can Do

You're listening to the 213th edition of the podcast and we're going to study together the better to trust in Hashem than to trust in generous people or generous ones. And I'd like to go a little bit of a in a different direction today than usual. We're going to talk about but we're also going to talk about what's going on today in Israel here in Israel and what we can actually do about it. There's lots of suggestions and lots of mitzvah and lots of sodaka, but I'd like to focus in on a particular point which I I said to my kids two days ago as we were in the mammad in the reinforced room in our house as there were sirens going I talked about the point that I'd like to share with you shortly. First on this It's better to trust in Hashem than to trust in generous ones. So we're going to come back to this P and to the other here but I'd like to focus in specifically the last piece that he brings here is from he says like this based in it's known that when a person passes on from this world and they face their judgment they face the celestial court The truth is that over there in in in the heavens, so there's lots of compassionate angels. There's lots of factors that go into a person's judgment after 120. Look, lots of factors that go into every single action that I take. He points out here Most of the Sanhedrin, most of the heavenly court is made up of these malim these these goodleaning malim. They lean towards compassion and they are referred to as nivim which means generous ones. That's what we said. We said it's better to trust in Hashem than to trust in the better the the generous ones. So nevertheless, they also have judgment within them. And I'm not sure if that's referring to the actual angels themselves or the court itself that also consists of angels who are judgmental angels. If Hashem himself alone judges us, so then it's an incredible level of compassion. This about this the says it's better to trust in Hashem than to trust in the in the generous ones. meaning don't trust in the malim in the angels who are compassionate angels because they can only help you to a certain extent. It's better to have Hashem be the one to judge because Hashem has endless compassion and he really knows all the things that went into our actions and all the motivations and all the things that affected us. Very interesting to me as I'm reading this. It's not quoted by the but the gumar says in Russash a story with Yeshua he got sick and Raaba came to visit him and it turned out that Rauna Yeshua it seemed like he was really about to die he was on his deathbed that's how it seemed and it looked like he was finished and Rapa called out bring in the death shrouds immediately after that Raun dehua woke up. It was fine. He got better. Papa was very embarrassed that he had said, "Bring out the death shrouds." And Raun Yeshua says, "You know, um, you're not so off because I should have died. I was already in front of the heavenly court." And as they were judging me and I was supposed to go, Hashem himself spoke up as it were. And Hashem said, "You can't take him yet." What was the special thing that Raua did? We'll see how it connects to what the is talking about here. What was the special thing that he did? He was which means he wasn't on other people. When someone did a wrong to him, he didn't get upset. He was he forgave them. He didn't look at it as the person. I'mma adding he didn't look at it as the person. He recognized that it was Hashem who did it. Hashem wanted him to have that embarrassment or that pain. He didn't view it as the person who had wronged him having done something wrong. He was them forgave them. And says whoever forgives others for their sins against him, Hashem forgives that person as well. Measure for measure. When we forgive others for their sins against us, Hashem forgives us for our sins against him. And what do you see in the story? You see that Hashem himself comes in as Yeshua is being judged. Hashem himself comes in and releases him. He shows greater compassion and that's expressed in this. It's good to trust in Hashem himself rather than trusting in even the positive the good angels the angels of of mercy says. When indeed does Hashem come in and be the judge himself as opposed to the angels being in charge of the judgment? When a person is involved in kindness, and he awakens above the root of kindness. We're going to see what this means. Awakening above the root of kindness. and through this so the individual merits that when he gets up to shim after 120 if I involve myself in doing kindness and we'll see what that looks like practically perhaps for this very moment anyone can do this it has to do with when a person invol involves themselves in kindness so when they get to their personal judgment for their life Hashem himself comes is the judge and shows him kindness. Can I get mid? We showed other people kindness, Hashem shows us kindness. Now this quote from is out of the savas and I looked it up in the savas because this whole concept of forgiving is on my mind and this is what I said at the very beginning. I said to my kids two days ago as we were sitting in the reinforced room in the mad there's a famous story pretty sure it's with Levitz where they went down it was 1967 6 day war Jordanians were bombing us or other other Arab countries they came in with with airplanes they were bombing us and was being bombed and people would go down when there were air raid sirens just as is happening today. They would go down into their miklat into their uh shelters and there they would stay until the zam until the danger passed and they came down into the miklat and there was a woman there. Everyone was domining. Everyone was asking Hashem for compassion and there was a woman there who was an auna. She had been married and then her husband had left her and not given her a get, not allowed her to move on and remarry. And it had been many years that she had been trying to get this get without success. And in that moment, as the as the aid sirens were blaring and as the bombs were falling and they heard the explosions, this woman says, "I forgive my husband, Hashem. I forgive him." And I saw different versions of the story. So I'm gonna say the common version of the story is that she said if I could forgive my husband, please forgive Clal Israel. And so I said to my kids in the in the room, why don't we find someone who we can be? Why don't we find someone who we can forgive? let's forgive them and let it be for us and for Israel and we did that and we did that and so I was thinking about this idea and I I think that I'd like to suggest to every single one of you you want to know what you can do for us or you want to know if you're inist or what you can do for yourself start forgiving people how many times we wronged human beings king forgive them and what does it mean to forgive first of all Hashem I be talking everything that happens in my life is from Hashem that's hard I see the person but I can also think about I I could have done the same thing or I have done the same thing have I not done the same thing am I not just as human as a person who hurt me do I not want forgiveness for the same thing that I once did maybe to somebody else. Of course I do. Help me forgive that person. I'd like to share with you in the class. So he mentions this idea in regards to the judgment as we said in regards to coming after 120 to judgment asking Hashem himself to to judge us because Hashem has the greatest rahim. He has the greatest compassion. He sees all the loopholes. knows how to find that for us. But further he brings an amazing thing and it's a proof. It shows us about the story of with this woman who forgave her husband is talking about the fact that we find that Hashem takes a right even though Hashem says to the judges don't take any kind of graft don't take any any if if you're judging a case and you take money from one of the people you're going to be you're going to end up judging the case incorrectly. You have to be honest. You can't take a bribe. But Hashem says, "I take a bribe. I will take a bribe. If you do, if you do kindness, I'm not going to judge you the same as I would have otherwise." And of course, the question is, how could that be? How can it be that takes a bribe? What's the idea? But as we saw and as we explained when a person does kindness to others when a person shows kindness to others when a person is others when I forgive other people so the result is that I deserve to be forgiven myself even though I've done what's wrong says you know if Hashem would look at me carefully and look at my mitzvah I I didn't do them wholeheartedly per se that I did I did pretty wholeheartedly I was very into The mitzvah were imperfect, not done. Not done with a full heart, not done as best as I could. And even if I did chuva, maybe the chuva wasn't really that good either. Maybe it wasn't sincere. Maybe it didn't feel as bad. Maybe I went back to a vera afterwards and did it again. But he says when I do kindness to others, it's not just like a cute thing, a bribe. It's not a bribe, but it becomes as we said, it becomes it's fair. It's correct. If I'm kind to others and I forgive others, so then Hashem can measure for measure is going to be kind to me and is going to forgive me. But he says something crazy. He says something which is so powerful and this is really the center of what I'd like us to take out of this Torah. The truth is that every single individual would like that Hashem should act with him with kindness and compassion. But in order for Hashem to behave with us with kindness and compassion, it's also done in a righteous way, in a fair way. It's known that according to the way that a person acts with a person's character traits in this world, I awaken in the highest highest realms with what I do here. It's an amazing thing with what I do here in this world. It awakens in the highest places in the highest spiritual realms. Aan a way that Hashem interacts with the world. If it's if I interact with others with kindness and compassion, love, patience, calmness with others, if that's how I behave with those around me, with my spouse, with my family, with my kids, with my parents, with my neighbors, with my friends. When I do that, the things that I do here in this world awaken that attribute in the heavens above. Says, "Not only does it awaken compassion for me, kindness for me, it goes back to the root of the highest heavens and it pours down that same hanaga. It's not just going to affect me. When I do kindness, when I forgive others, it brings about forgiveness for myself and the entire world. The says in that a person's soul is satiated from the fruits of the person himself. The things that I do affect my soul, affect the spiritual root of reality. When I need compassion, Hashem saves it. That's what he says later on. I don't know if we'll get to it, but he says, "When I do kindness, when I am, when I give up my hak, I have a right to be angry. somebody did wrong to me. I have a right to be upset maybe when I give that up. When I forgive somebody else and I give it up and I say they're just human just like me and I say I am ali I forgive you. Hashem help me forgive that person. So that's that becomes a shield for me. that's set up. And when I need compassion, when I needim, when the bombs are falling, it's there to protect me and it's there to protect those around me and it's there to protect my my people. Whoever has compassion on others, they They have compassion upon him from the heavens here. He brings from the z I'm not going to read the whole thing but he brings from the zar which says this exact point that I just said when a person does acts with compassion below he awakens compassion on that day that day is crowned with compassion because of him. So that day becomes a shield for him. We are creating when I act with compassion with others, when I forgive others, when I do kindness for others, I create a shield for myself and for others. It's desire. It's very interesting in that's in it's in the second I believe it's the second section of a that's where I am. second section of a said I was in the middle of perkishi and he also talks about in perv which was the quote that we quoted on the puk and it brings here the medish that we just learned together which speaks about russ how she did kindness with nomi and as a result of her kindness so the pik says she came under the the wings of hashem she came under the protection of hashem Not the protection of the not the angels, not all the different levels of angels, not the sun, not the heavens. And he says when a person does kindness, he awakens above the the root of kindness. As we said, then he merits that Hashem himself is the one who judges him. This is the power of those who do kindness. They awaken the kindness of Hashem. You want to be protected. We need protection today. Israel needs protection wherever we are, but especially here in our Israel, we need extra protection and we need you to help provide that protection. It's not just something that you do for yourself. It's also for yourself. But send it our way. Be somebody. Make a list of people that you have a hard time being that you have a hard time forgiving and forgive them. Say, "Help me forgive this person. I forgive this person. When I forgive somebody, it creates this powerful protection for Amy Israel. And I want to read to you the last thing here at the very end of that chapter, the fourth chapter, the second section in he says we find a similar idea in the according to one one uh version. It speaks about the fact that it's important not just to learn Torah but also to do kindness to others. The Gamar talks about it in a few places. certain people who were sadikim they weren't supposed to live so long they lived longer because the fact that they'd learned Torah and the one who also did kindness to others lived even longer one live to the age of 40 one live the age of 60 but here it says when a person learns Torah and also does kindness so their enemies fall in front of them like Yseph It speaks about him and says that he is the one who is able to gore through his enemies and he merits to have deep wisdom and understanding like in speaking about the people of they were those who learned Torah. They had great depth and great wisdom. When a person learns Torah, so they merit, sorry. Yeah. When they learn Torah, so then they merit to have depth of wisdom. Like that's what they did. They learned Torah, they got wisdom. But in doing kindness and kindness means and he says this explicitly. I sorry I didn't read it inside but he says it explicitly that a person I need to not be mockb on others. I need to not hold against other people the things that they've wronged me. I need to do kindness with others. I need to be forgive them. When I do that kindness think about Ysef. He doesn't say this point but think about Yseph. His brother said we wronged you. And Ysef says, "It wasn't you. It was it was all from Hashem." That he was able to see that. He was able to recognize that. He didn't hold against them a an anger and hatred. He forgave them. Was also somebody besides the fact that he forgave them, he also had a tremendous amount of kindness that he did. He was completely involved. His whole life, his whole his his focus was taking care of all these different countries and all of their sustenance. He took care of his entire family especially. He also was involved in burying his father. But he was involved in and why and and because of his because of his kindness, because of his vtor, because of his forgiveness, he merited to this blessing. He merited to have this blessing that the enemies fall in front of him. So we get two things when we forgive other people. We get lots of things really, but two things am Israel. We get protection. We get special protection from heaven protects us and we need that protection right now. We need it so badly. We get protection and we get success against our enemies. So let's try please I ask please try to forgive let's forgive others and in this way it will be a merit for ourselves for kindness for us and a merit for am is for rahim and for compassion. Thank you so much for listening. See you again next time.