Bitachon 109 - Remove My Enemies' Power

you're listening to the 109th edition of the be talking podcast we continue with a pasok and to hilum in Psalms chapter 17 verse 7. make clear your kindness oh you Hashem who saves those who trust in you it's not so clear exactly how to translate this means from those who rise up against them but the plastic finishes off with your right hand so the postulas is it means save us prevent our enemies from hurting us do this with your right hand but the more fortune that he brings here give an alternate explanation of this idea which is very important and deep and in facing off with our challenges with our enemies so to speak we need to understand that everything that comes everything that happens is given Power by Hashem even those negative forces and negative influences in our life they're given Power by Hashem and that affords us an unusual opportunity if we understand this and that is to ask Hashem to take away his power from those forces which are standing up against us so let's see he starts off with a small explanation of the ra Ben ramach U the verse before says Hashem turn your ear to hear my prayer foreign King David is asking God listen to my prayer because those who are my enemies as we said they have power from you listen to my prayer they have power through your right hand because turn away from giving them that power King David is saying listen to my prayer turn away from giving them power bring that power over to the side of good why because I trust in you once again we have a theme that we have a right so to speak to trust in Hashem ask him for salvation in the Merit of the fact that we trust him foreign of God's kindness is connected to his right hand um Now by definition is kindness is something that can apply even to people who don't deserve the kindness and despite the fact that they don't deserve it they receive the good in this world because the right hand of Hashem helps them is there are some people who deserve to have Serenity they deserve to have good in this world but they're constantly being pursued in their lifetime by forces that aren't good and these very people they're sadiqam they're righteous and when they experience negative things they recognize that it's from Hashem they trust in Hashem and they ask Hashem for salvation so this type of person is called Hashem places his faith in God is interesting is not asking that Hashem should place his kindness upon those who trust him this is a different understanding than the previous understanding they don't need it the one who recognizes now this sounds like something maybe we're not interested in right but the one who properly recognizes that even the difficulties in one's life are also from Hashem he's not necessarily looking for blatant outright kindness from Hashem why because he recognizes that the negative things are also from Hashem he finds Hashem everywhere so Davina milk is not asking Hashem to give him foreign and a person like this was on this exalted level he doesn't rebel against Hashem because he has negative experiences like we saw previously a person who recognizes that every single thing he experiences is from Hashem it's the other way around he he's able to withstand negative situations and he's able to see Hashem within the negative situation and see the salvation of Hashem within that situation so there theirs is a very good lot right they have a very good situation nothing nothing can face them nothing can knock them down foreign please take away your kindness from those who don't deserve kindness why is when it comes to the people who don't deserve it so those are often the people who are rebelling against Hashem who are causing damage to those who are trying to fulfill the will of Hashem is saying okay I'm not I'm not asking for kindness for myself but I do ask that my enemies that you remove your kindness from them foreign they are using that very life force that they're receiving from God to rebel against God so David is saying look don't don't give them that don't give them that kindness that's based on the al-shek now let's see some more ideas the next piece is from the ibits foreign you have Divine Providence you watch over all of your Creations you provide sustenance for them with your kindness so in this shot it's not like the he says make your kindness great and save those who trust in you foreign as opposed to that what you do for those who rise up against you okay so he's understanding not those who rise up against you I apologize but to mean those who are able to be supported by you through your right hand oh okay I'm sorry I'm getting confused let's hear what he says before we explain it is a different idea he says Hashem does give power to the to those who are misclaiming those who are rebelling against him Hashem gives them power Hashem gives them kindness he supports them with his right hand with his hand of kindness says look if I see that you give kindness and you support and you do good things for those who rebel against you so I can be assured if those who anger you are given kindness certainly those who are trying to do your will certainly are going to be supported by you foreign like a person takes care of something which is his most prized possession right we those who are depending on Hashem those who are trying to do his will those who are sadike the righteous ones of Hashem if you support all of those people if you take care of those people certainly we should be supportive we should be taken care of them is that this is a hint to that which the rambam states that we have many nations of the world right we have two billion Muslims we have a billion Christians Jewish people 15 million how many are we a very small nation right but why is there all of this all of these great Nations all around they're there because they are like the chaff the kukon about mites they're like the chaff of the wheat they're like the stalk of the wheat the wheat which is very small but very precious in order to grow requires to have a chef requires to be protected from the elements Christ to have a stalk which brings up the sustenance from the ground with the point of them all is the wheat the point of the chaff the point of the stalk is the wheat right so if I could respond who does kindness with the chaff and he does kindness with the stock certainly Hashem will do kindness with a wheat which is the essence of mankind which is the Sonic the righteous one which is the Jewish people the people of Israel now he brings a review here foreign when someone is great when someone is a goddel when someone let's say there's a very hush of person very important person if I come to this person and ask him to help me to save me so it's an embarrassment if he could save me and he doesn't save me looks bad for him foreign so this is what King David is saying to Hashem as it were when I called you in my prayer and I said listen to my prayer listen to my my supplication I was I was absolutely sure I trust that I knew that you would answer me because therefore also when I when I prayed to you and I said listen listen Hashem listen to my to my righteousness or listen righteously to me and listen to my words so this this type of prayer is a recognition of the be talking that I have my my faith that you will say maybe it's absolutely certain for me that you will you will take care of me I have no I have no doubt that you'll save me here's our project what it means to say is that since I trusted in you sometimes look when I when I've done something wrong can't erase it requires a cleansing process and to get rid of the stain that I put Upon My Soul by doing the sin right so we can't avoid that nevertheless is saying I have sinned I've done wrong but I'm asking you for a miracle I'm asking you for something which is unbelievable I'm asking for you to use your incredible kindness to help me and to save me so he's saying a different shot in the Miss coming what does this mean it doesn't mean my enemies those who are evil it means me the evil inside of me the wrong that I have done which really deserves a proper retribution is saying I know that my power to sin hear this my power to sin is not stronger than your power to forgive hear this language again my power to sin is not stronger than your power to forgive there's lots of bugs here your kindness is amazing it's awesome it can save me it can save me from the from the my deserved punishment your awesome ability is much greater your ability to forgive is greater than my ability to sin he brings down on the bottom of the page there's an awesome thing here okay if that's the rights in his safer mitamilio the topic in Russia is God created this corresponding to that with Zion a team was we can learn from the side of of evil to the side of good we can understand something from Power with someone who had tremendous courage in a negative sense in tremendous courage he faced off with God is she closed his heart he he made his heart to be absolutely closed he hardens his own heart to the point that he went to sleep at night on the night of Marcus he knew that his firstborn son would die and he knew he was the firstborn son he went to sleep that night without any uh without any problems he didn't have a problem falling asleep we see the power we can see from the power of Tomorrow of impurity something we can really can learn from there to the power of purity called how much it's possible for a person to trust even in the face of negative situations from the extent of the sin of power we can learn we can also see from the austenance of Paro and the negative results of his sins how much on the other side when we do what's right how much Hashem wants to forgive us and to and to bring good into our lives we came of first because it was safer I can't remember darling again the same exact line that we said before it's impossible that the power of a sinner to sin is greater than the power of Hashem to forgive okay so that's a powerful a powerful message and and that's what this public is teaching do something awesome which is to forgive me despite the fact that I don't deserve it last point it's from the punny office we have here an explanation for what it says it doesn't say Hashem saves those who trust them with your right hand from those who come against them like we said before we're going to have a similar idea to what we said before foreign this is a very powerful way of thinking about the challenge that our enemies those who rise up against us they don't have power on their own it's from a spark of Holiness that fell into them that's it they have power well that doesn't sound very good one so God is giving power to evil to destroy us all your days of our value days or foreign since the power comes from from Hashem himself that's how the enemy has power we have to be assured that those who love him have a greater power we will be able to overcome our enemies this is what it means the Posse is saying that how do our enemies have power it's from your right hand that's how we can be absolutely certain that Hashem will save us he brings here again in the notes brings us back to foreign tells Moses Paro is going to be Heart of heart I will strengthen his heart meaning I'm giving him the to deny the Jewish people their freedom is at the beginning it was so that he wouldn't be afraid of Paro being stubborn and not allowing the Jewish people to leave where does that audacity that stubbornness come from of pharaoh it comes from Hashem himself that power comes mashem so you can be assured it's important for emotion to know that from the beginning that his stubbornness was something that Hashem put in him and that it wouldn't ultimately stop Hashem from bringing about the salvation of the Jewish people bringing their Exodus so it's a very powerful message a powerful tool recognizing that our our very difficulties in life are from Hashem the power that our enemies have over Us is from Hashem but what that really means is we need to strengthen ourselves in our trust of Hashem we need to strengthen ourselves in our TV law in our request of Hashem that the power be taken away from our enemies that the power given over to those who indeed trust him thank you so much for listening see you again next time