Bitachon 215 - Trusting the Most Generous One

You're listening to the 215th edition of the podcast. We're studying together the int chapter 119 verse 9 of Psalms. It's good to trust in Hashem more so than to trust even in generous people. And I'm as I'm saying it, I'm thinking, you know, a generous person means someone who does someone who's interested in kindness, which means that they are actually a vehicle for Hashem's light into the world. They're a vehicle for Hashem's kindness, not to be taken lightly, not to be unappreciated, but it's better to go to the source. Of course, sometimes Hashem sends his kindness through kind people. But still, it's better to go to the source of the kindness which is Hashem himself. He brings here from the it's a good and appropriate thing to trust in Hashem with all of your strength and to expect from Hashem an incredible an incredible something good is going to come out. Something awesome is going to happen. And we can speak about this not just in terms of the fact that it's better to trust in Hashem than to trust in a generous person but also we can learn from the generous person the way what happens the way that we feel when we trust in a generous person the way that a person is treated when you trust in a generous person. What is the result? And we can multiply that many fold when we talk about trusting in Hashem. When you trust in someone who's very generous, let's say the nation of Israel today trusted in President Donald Trump. Okay? So he's a very important person. He's a generous person. He took an an incredible risk and an incredible uh cost at an, you know, to to bomb the Fordo nuclear facility, right? So, we trusted him and he helped us out. What happens as a result of trusting? So, you get a lot of honor. Look, America's on your side. Look, the great Donald Trump sent his B2 bombers to help out the Jewish people, the people of Israel. What a great honor for us. And really, we could say it's a great honor for him, too, to be on the side of right, on the side of goodness, right? So, what you see is that when you trust in a in a kash of person, an important person, in a generous person, so there's a certain honor that comes with it. This is the person upon whom I rely if let's say you have a rav or a rebi an admir somebody who you rely upon for your questions for your hashkaf questions. So to be associated with a particular let's say to be associated with a certain rebi it's an honor for me to say my rebi was Rabbi it's honor for me to say that there's a certain honor that comes with with depending on somebody so we can deduce from here we can make a certain it's true if when I trust in my rash Shisha Rab I get a certain honor. I'm his student or a person trusts in a particular rich person they get a certain honor. They're his protege. So certainly so much more certainly if I'm if I'm a person who trusts in Hashem so then my association my my uh it's Hashem's name is called on me. That's what it really means. Hashem names. Hashem's name is called upon us. Not not is not called on us. It doesn't say ma on our hats. It says v on our hats. It saysuk on our on our foreheads on our where we place the fillain. So it's an incredible thing. Hashem's name is called upon us. That's the greatest honor that could be if we trust in Hashem. We say we're saying it's Hashem who's doing it for us. It's God's divine assistance that's doing it for us. Maybe he's sending a messenger named Donald Trump. Maybe maybe he's sending a different messenger, whatever it might be in our personal lives, but the association is with Hashem. That's the greatest honor. Brings here in the note. You see over there he brings the the magician gracious we can learn from the way that a human being speaks he says I he spoke speaks about himself as I we see who it's talking about particular individual particular human being we can learn from that what it means when hashem says I I am hashem What happened with Yoseph? Yoseph came out of jail. He had been there for 12 years. He interpreted Parro's dream. He explained what's going on. He he spoke about what's seven bad years, seven good years. He said what to do. He said to appoint somebody. And parro says I am parro and besides for me no one else will lift their finger. No one else will be greater than you. You will have all the power in Egypt. He says I am parro. And because of his I am parro he's saying I have the power to give you power. And Yseph was raised up and became who he became. He got all this honor. When the of Hashem when Hashem says the Pik says that Hashem in the future is going to save is going to say I created you and I carried you. I'm the one who gave you the power. Allah has certainly that's going to be the case. So parro raises up Yoseph by saying I am parro I'm the one who has the power. Hashem raises up Israel by saying I am Hashem. I created you and I lifted you up. And the explanation here is the explanation of this is that we can see the essence of the way that Hashem fulfills his promise. From that we can learn about the way that Hashem fulfills his promise from the way that a human being does the same. Kamak Pharaoh who he's a human being today he's alive tomorrow he's dead right we read these stories from thousands of years ago how long did his power last couple of decades right parro had power lost the power he died but nevertheless through saying I am Pharaoh he raised up the honor of Yseph Certainly when it comes to Hashem's promise, Hashem says, "I promise you that I'm going to lift you up. I'm the one who has the power and I'm going to give that power over to you." So that's certainly Hashem is forever because God was, he is, he will be. Hashem is transcendent. So because of that, the power that we're going to have, the power that we have, we have access to when we have that's something that's not limited. It's completely unlimited. And he brings here, he mentions in the note here that there's something that he talked about way back, this is 80 podcasts ago, so that's like more than a year and a half ago. uh we spoke about we spoke about uh on page he brings I'll just I'll just I read it already so I'm going to just uh quote it quickly to you but he says that we find that when when lo the nephew of au's nephew Lot took the angels into his house they were about to save him but he didn't know that yet he took the the angels appeared as people he took them into his house he fed them he took care of Um, and then the the evil people of Sadon came in and they wanted to they were banging on the door trying to get those guests because in Sedon it was illegal to have guests. What's mine is mine, what's yours is yours. Never the twain shall meet. And Lot stands up for for their for their safety. Not only does he stand up for the city, he says, "They came into my house. They came under my care and my protection. Here, take my own daughters. Do with them as you wish." That's what he said. Okay, he's extreme. But the fact that he came, that he invited them into his home meant that he's there to protect them. He'll do whatever he can that that no harm should come about. No harm should be caused to them. He'll give up something of his own. Hard to understand, but that's what it says. But what we learn from that, the lesson of it is that if we have if we come under the kas gag the the roof of Hashem, if we're in Hashem's house as it were, if we're under his care and his protection, if that's where we place ourselves, and that's what we do through. So the result is that Hashem guarantees that he's going to protect us. He guarantees that he's going to take care of us. So you see that you can understand from the way that human beings act of course human beings were made salim which means that when we are acting in our highest way if we're acting based on our conscience and our most spiritual selves. So you can see the way Hashem acts. If says I am Pharaoh and I give you power, Hashem can say the same thing. I am Hashem and I give you power. And if load says you came into my care and protection, I'm going to guarantee your safety. Hashem says the same thing. You came under my care and protection. I guarantee all good for you. Says he says, I want to explain this very simply. is saying that it's good for a human being to always trust in Hashem. If a person does not place his faith in Hashem, so the ultimate result will be what I would say is a terrible outcome and that is that he'll the person will have to end up trusting in people and trusting in people doesn't say this at length but we've seen it many times trusting in people involves embarrassment. It's embarrassing to trust in somebody. It's embarrassing to be dependent on another human being. And not only that, as we said towards the beginning of this year, there's no guarantees. There's no guarantees. So, it's much better to start off. Don't even bother with start off and strengthen your trust in Hashem and you won't be stuck with human beings. Brings here the cipher. You need to understand the language of the is inconsistent. Starts off saying which means a certain type of trust nestling under Hashem's wing. Then it ends up saying it's better to nestle in Hashem's wing than to trust in a human being in a generous person. Why does it say it that way? Why doesn't it say it's better to nestle in Hashem's wing than to nestle in the protection of of a human being? Or let it say it's better to trust in Hashem rather than to trust in a rich person. Says another understanding in the difference between nestling in Hashem's protection versus He says like this. Say I have a person who is a businessman and he needs money for a certain business venture. He doesn't have that money. He has a friend who's rich, who's a very kind person and he doesn't favors. So he's able to get out of his worry. He has this friend. He's got a rich friend. The guy always does does him favors. So he thinks him to himself, if I ask him for the money, I'm sure he's going to give it to me. And he feels calm, feels relaxed. That's why it's not for sure. It's possible that the guy doesn't have any money right now. Maybe he doesn't have any liquid money. Maybe his money is all invested somewhere or maybe he needs the money for some some business venture that he himself is doing. So there's no guarantee. Just because that guy always helps me doesn't mean that he's going to help me this time. So that's called I I really really believe that he's going to help me. It's not for sure. There's there's an outside chance he might not be able to to provide me with what I need right now. Better than this is a promise. The word comes from the word which means a promise. So it means that I have a promise. If the guy promised me already, he's going to lend me the money. So then he's calm. He's quiet. He's like really calm. Guy promised him the money. He's the rich guy. He's got the money. He promised me the money. So I feel much more calm. That's a different kind of calm. That's a different kind of trust. Nevertheless, still not for sure. There's no guarantees. The person is a person. Sometimes a person changed their mind. So you cannot be certain, absolutely certain that he's going to give you the money that he promised you. He you promised you're calm, but it's still not absolutely guaranteed. But Hashem who is good and he does good and he has compassion on his creations. So the which means the fact that I'm not sure if Hashem is going to give it to me. I I believe so. God always helps me. This one who's always there for me. I don't know for sure for sure. That is much better. That feeling is much greater than trusting completely and as it were having a promise from a generous person. don't know for sure that Hashem is going to give it to you. That is much more guaranteed. There's much more of a guarantee in that case. Very interesting. We're talking about the feelings of a person's heart here. But he's saying that it's possible or that it's we should try or or it makes sense that if a person if I trust in a person because he's promised it to me. So my trusting in Hashem even though there's no explicit promise God has not ever spoke to me and said I promise you you're going to have everything that you need but still the in Hashem is more it's better than it's more guaranteed than the promise of a regular human being even a generous one. And with that, wait, so we could end there, but you know, there's a piece that we read two weeks ago, which is really here at the end of the different explanations here of our and I'd like to go over it. Reuben we had said that when a person is judged after 120 or maybe even when we're judged every single day right there's a judgment that happens every day as per the every moment as per the rash. So they're called they're called generous ones but still nevertheless despite their generosity and their compassion there are still also there's a component of them of judgment this is speaking when Hashem alone judges us it's absolute compassion about this the says it's better to trust in Hashem and to trust in generous ones. When is Hashem himself the judge in this matter? And the way I said it last time based on himself, if I show I'm not mocked on others, I show that I'm not I don't get upset so much when people wrong me. I give it up. I forgive people. I I d for their for good for them. my I pay them back good instead of evil as used to used to do. So it awakens above that kindness above and the result is that instead of being judged by the angels the person is instead judged by Hashem himself and Hashem has a much greater sees things much broader than an angel can see things. Hashem has the ability to find for us person who loves is towards he leans towards when we do kindness to others when we are people hashem is us so again it's a it's a path into it's another path in it's a certain mindset and the mindset is generosity if I'm generous with others is generous with me if I help out others and I'm to others. I give up my own haka my own right rightful righteous sense not getting what I deserve if I give that up as well is forgives us on us and how much do we need his rah how much do we need his compassion and mercy thank you so much for listening we'll see you again next