Bitachon 240 - Finding True Quiet

You're listening to the 240th edition of the podcast. We are going to begin a new puzzle. Isaiah 30:15. This is what Hashem says. Hashem, God says, the Holy One of Israel. Listen carefully to this. You want to know what is? You want to know what it means to live with Baken? with returning and I think returning here means returning to Hashem, returning to a place of calmness. That's how we get saved. But with quiet and with confidence that has the potential to be your real strength, but the ni is exhorting the Jewish people. That's not what you wanted. Instead, you went to Egypt. You went to the powers of the world. You went to America. You went to all the places that you thought would guarantee your protection and your salvation, but return to me. Hashem is saying, return to my loving arms. Rashi says, this is what Hashem says to you. You don't need to waste your money. You don't need to run to Egypt and make all kinds of security pacts. All you need to do is just listen to Hashem. If you just listen, if you just return to Hashem, then without any troubles, you'll have a salvation. with the quiet that comes when you come back to me. When a person is connected to Hashem, when a person feels Hashem in their heart, when a person feels Hashem in their life, they have a quiet potentially just trusting in Hashem can be the ultimate strength. It's not necessary to find all the different ways to protect myself from all of my enemies. I just connect to the source, the one who has all the power. [snorts] So then I've got that power. The barbell says the Na'vi places guilt upon the Jewish people and he says, "Why are you trying to go to Egypt to get help? They're not going to really help you. You turned away. You didn't seek out the Holy One of Israel. They would have sought the help of Hashem. So, they wouldn't have needed Egypt. They wouldn't have needed to wage war with swords and spears. Oh you know just being in a state of calmness it's such a pella think about it all I really need to do all I really need to do says the says is to just calm down just relax all the problems that you think you have they're not really problems just being quiet and being serene would save us from our enemies kikar Israel. This is what Hashem, your God says. The Holy One of Israel, meaning your holy one. You, the people of Israel, is yours. The Holy One is yours. If you would come back to Hashem, you would seek his face. If you would try to be in his presence, with quiet and confidence. You would have power cuz you would attach yourself to him. You weren't interested. We said, "I'd rather go and I'd rather raise up my banner. I'd rather prove my greatness, prove my power with the with the acquisition of horses. I wanted to be raised up. I wanted to show my my uh prowess at war by purchasing lots of horses or in our times the equivalent would be tanks or uh army airplanes, combat airplanes. The punishment is that instead of being a n which means a flag a banner being raised instead of being raised we loose we'll end up running away from our enemies that's the barba now so the tyra is giving us a choice do we want to try to believe that it's all us and we have to do everything in our power every in order to survive in order to thrive life or is it all Hashem? The B brings here. We find that there's a concept that if somebody has fear, if someone is amongst those who are going out to war, but he feels inside of himself a fear. So he goes home. He doesn't stay. We don't want fearful people out at war. The says in that the co there would be a special priest who would go out with the troops and he would give them a pep talk and he would say if you have fear if you're afraid go home go home. See the principle here is that you know you either have or you have fear and the fear itself is the is the problem. We don't need to fear with fear itself because the fear itself is what creates the problem. He could he could be he could be he could end up being trapped by the very thing he fears. The BI says the battles of the Jewish people were never about their own power. It was always about their look at Do and Golas. Look back in Tanakh and see it was a spiritual power that gave them the ability to to win. The moment we ended up with hubris with ego believing that it's us, we always ended up in trouble. ask the B with quiet and confidence. That's your power. That's how you will have the power. The says the is doubling up the idea with different words. The doubling here of with quiet and confidence. I told you that if you will listen to me, if you'll come back to me, right? That's the if you'll come back to me and be calm. Why does a person turn away from a hashem? Person thinks, well, there's something in us that doesn't fit my lifestyle, doesn't fit how I want things to be. It always comes back to my ego. Or it feels like if I sit and learn, if I spend my time on spiritual pursuits, how will I have enough money to to support my family? There's all kinds of regular human excuses, but they're just excuses. If you listen to to me, you don't need to be involved in so much effort. You don't have to be running after Egypt. As we said, Just sit in your cities. Just sit in a relaxed state with trust with faith. That is the power. That is the the vur. The word vur can mean power and it can also mean restraint. When a person acts his self-restraint, he shows that he has a he believes that is on his side. means to say Hashem will be fighting for you. Hashem will fight for you and the end of but that wasn't the path that we chose. We're human beings and we make mistakes. Now he brings an extended piece from the through quiet and faith. So the salvation comes person who does not trust in hem but rather believes that there's some other source for what he needs some other something else that's going to cause what he needs to be brought about or trust in a person. So mid measure for measure Hashem removes as it were his divine providence from him. And then you know I hesitate to to say this to say what we just said. That's what it says. But of course there's still divine providence on every individual whether or not I believe in Hashem. But the more I the more I connect to that to Hashem that God who loves me so much the more I connect to that the more I access his power. So but if but he's saying that if I turn away from Hashem so then Hashem leaves me alone. Okay. You want to trust some people? Let's see how it goes. Let's see how that works for you. The individual is then given over to whatever whatever happens. We find that our sages tell us there were two rabbis walking. He saw that groaned. He made a a sigh. Why are you sighing? What are you afraid of? It sounded like he was afraid. He was worried. He said, "Be careful with your worry." The worry can actually create the very problem that you fear. He says, "Don't be afraid of your enemies, lest I cause you to to be afraid of your enemies." Meaning the very fact that I'm afraid can create a situation where I'll be truly afraid. Whenever the says don't be afraid, it's coming to say this thing. When a person is when a person believes in a particular um call it force in the world when a person believes in a certain force and he's afraid of that force believes that it has power over him to affect him positively negatively. even being afraid of war. The very fear itself has the potential to bring upon him the very thing that he fears. He says, "Job said, I was afraid and it came that which I was fearful of came to me and happened. This is very interesting. He quotes here the mag says there are four things that's in in there are four things that a person needs to strengthen all the time and one of them is the reason it's interesting it's in the note here I'd like to read it to you this is person sees that he's praying and and his prayers are not answered should go pray again as he says hope to Hashem strengthen your heart and hope to Hashem meaning sometimes I hope sometimes I pray and it doesn't work doesn't seem to work strengthen your heart hope to Hashem again and by the way the cave the concept of cave is hoping to hashem Bryce says that there are four things that require constant strengthening. These are they learning Torah, doing good deeds, prayer and which either means a person's parasa or means the way that a person interacts with the world. How do we know that is something that requires constant strengthening prayer? So you see that in quoting which is talking about to explain how we know that we need to always strengthen our prayers. Seems clear that the is understanding when it talks about it's talking about and we've spoken at length other times about the concept of how it relates to prayer to the idea of is is a sense of confidence inside oneself that Hashem is taking care of him sometimes I need to help me with that sometimes I need a prayer in order to feel more confidence let's see what he says brings her the talks about how one of the great sages saints they would complete their prayer as follows. You know everything I need. I'm not telling you anything that you don't know. When I'm dvening, I'm not saying anything that you don't know. You know all of my needs. You know all of my prayers even before I utter them. So, I'm not saying this to you to to to give you the list. I'm telling you the list of things that I am missing so that I can be aware of them and I can trust in you about them. We we kind of look at our we look at it as a a uh a wish list. Hashem, I'm not super proud of myself. I've done things wrong. Forgive me, Hashem. I know of sick people. Make them well. Hashem, I need give me. That's not what it is. That's not what prayer is. This is explaining in his prayer, he's showing us that the entire purpose of the prayer is for me to recognize what I'm missing and for me to trust in Hashem that I will get the things that I'm missing. That's a completely different way of thinking about what's going on in artis back to the he brings our in saying that that one of the four things that constantly requires strengthening is our how do you know because the says with quiet and with confidence that's where you get your power when I'm afraid It can cause the thing I fear. I can be broken by the thing that I fear because I'm because I'm afraid. Just quieting quieting down and offer you a little technique, a simple technique. [snorts] Whatever's happening, I don't like it. Let it go. What does it mean? Let it go. Relax your body. Quiet. Right? Right? That's what this is saying. Quiet. That's where the strength is. It's the opposite. When I want to be strong, I feel like I have to tighten up, face the world. Courage. No. This is what courage looks like. Courage looks like quiet. Courage looks like release. Courage looks like Shem is in charge of the world. Anything that's happening is from him. Let me stop resisting it. says to no evil can befall a person or better said the the I'm sorry here let me let me read this again it's always true says it's always that Yeshua it's very hard or I would say he says it never can happen that a salvation can come to a heart that's fearful but if a person's heart is calm can't you can't fall you can't lose out if your heart is calm Shem says to Gdon, "Go down and you're going to hear what they're speaking about. You're going to hear what they say, your enemies. You're going to go down at night. You're going to hear what they're saying, and that will strengthen you. This also explains you have to get into a space of calmness. You want to get salvation, you want to be saved by you need to get into a space of calmness. That's why when they went to fight against the city I so they went there and they didn't they didn't attack they didn't engage in battle until they saw that there was smoke coming up from the city the reason is because they had been to eye already they had already lost in battle 36 great sadikim were destroyed were killed and so their enemies were calm their enemies felt confident and that's why they made a siege. They laid siege to the city in order to make them fearful because once the enemy is fearful, they can't win. As long as we stay calm, we stay calm, we release, we relax. quiet, confidence, trust in Hashem. As long as we do that, we can experience the desire of our we can experience the goal of our which is Hashem taking care of us in the most awesome and clear way. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you again next time.