Bitachon 110 - My Rock and Fortress

you're listening to the 110th edition of the be talking podcast we continue I'm talking for web zundel collided from sukem into Hillary we're in chapter 18 verse 3 of tehilim says the posseck I'm actually going to read to you thrips in a row Hashem is the beginning of chapter 18. this is a song that was written by King David that he spoke to Hashem the words of this song Hashem saved him Hashem saved him on the day that Hashem saved him from the hands of his enemies and from the hands of Shaw Valley says that he said I will have mercy on you Hashem is my powerful one now we get to our pazuk Hashem Hashem is my rock he is my Fortress the faulty he's the one who extricates me from my my negative situation Kaylee is my God Suri he's my rock exabai I will trust in him magini vikarnishi he is my my shield he is the the karanishi he is the exalted one of my salvation he is the one in whom I can rely upon whom I can rely so beautiful languages as I mentioned it's going to say there are nine here but there's a tenth one because this pasta is also in shmuel in in small Bays the 21st chapter is this very similar song that that sang and there's ten different languages that he uses to describe Hashem to describe God as the one who saved him as the one who we upon whom he can rely Etc again in Deuteronomy chapter 33 verse 29 that the Jewish people is praiseworthy who is like you who is like the Jewish people who is saved directly by Hashem who's who's salvation comes and protection comes from Hashem Hashem what does it mean maybe our nation that's saved by God I'm saying means that our Salvation only comes from God Only from the divine presence what does it mean besides for being saved by Hashem we are also protected through his shield s it brings our concept which is a parallel concept of what it says in the public which is that God is my rock I trust in him he is my shield he's the one who's who is my salvation he's the honor of my salvation so what the sifri is saying is that there is a very special and intimate connection that the Jewish people have and who's the king of the Jewish people he is the song includes the entire Jewish people within him he's the king he has a unique relationship with Hashem that Hashem is his shield we are shielded as it were by God we have a special protection from Hashem and as a result of this protection we can have full be talking we can have full confidence that Hashem will save us he will protect us he is our Rock and he's the one upon whom we can rely now he brings from a measure Striker type foreign if you look at our pasta because we mentioned before there are nine different ways that Hashem has described as someone who is strong and can be dependent upon and there's a tenth way a tenth description which is there's an overlap of eight of them in the pasok in small base so there are 10 altogether 10 different languages 10 different words that are used to describe Hashem and wml's confidence in God and it describes or it parallels more accurately it parallels the 10 different salvations that King David experienced from his enemies who are these enemies three of his brothers our boss so if we count them all there's 10 altogether 10 enemies that he was able to conquer IA five of which were from the Jewish people and five of which were from the people of Israel number these are the ten phrases that he describes of Hashem his key right it's an impossible before which we which we read at the beginning God is my strong one Sally Is My Rock it's who does he is my Fortress I'm a faulties one who gets me out of the situation Suri it's another language of rock or maybe it's my the one who fashioned me I will trust in him magini is my shield karunishi he is the the honor of my salvation Miss Gabi he's the one upon whom I can rely is the one who helps me escape so we have all of these different languages I'd like to read to you a little bit here from the commentary cheers this is also a song as we mentioned which is in small base 2nd Samuels 21st chapter and it says the uh this is the entire song but with a few different changes in language he says check the Opera Benelli explains the differences what's the main real difference between this mismo in in tehilim in Psalms versus the one in favor yes in the book of shmuel The Book of Samuel so this song is his personal song that he sang when he was saved right but we know David amalek is not just a personal person he's not just an individual of course he's includes everybody and therefore the songs that he sings we also can sing because his songs are our songs as well foreign the language of the of the I think it's the barbinell he says like this that in the version which we have in safer develum is budded this is the order of the song for anyone for any individual s who wants to ask Hashem for salvation right was singing this song to thank Hashem for salvation but now I want to use the power of what happened in the past I want to use the power of this the previous salvation the fact that Hashem saved me then or that Hashem King David we all have a piece of King David in us we want to use the power of what happened then for the future to be saved from our future difficulties so you use the the version in the 18th chapter of Psalms in order to ask Hashem for salvation not just to take to say thanks to what happened for King David but rather it's also to ask for compassion for the future right so in public in the second shaft in the second verse in in talent in Psalms that we read it says Hashem have mercy upon me you are the one who is strong you're the one who I'm strengthened by so that's a request that language doesn't you don't find that language in or that that line in the song and say bashful that's only in Psalms why because this in Psalms here we're using it as a tool to ask for the future Hashem I'm asking for Mercy because you can use this chapter as a way to request help from Hashem in any and all situations so it's a very powerful idea just think about this that you know we've had situations in the past we've been saved we've had be talking and it worked I can think of situations where I had a very high level I'll be talking it's not having something that happens to me often I haven't been to the level of the madriguez maybe I touched it I tapped it for a moment but I can remember that feeling I can remember that moment and I can say Hashem just like you helped me then in that moment help me now in this moment just like King David said just like you helped me then help me now have compassion on me now so it's a very powerful tool that's what he's offering us now let's see some more of the before shame on them soaking it says like this brings through a ton of the velio means sir praiseworthy is a person who fears heaven when he's when he's all alone when he's in a hidden place foreign interesting depend on the one who has the shield and the sword in his hand who has a shield and a sword in his hand so it doesn't mean a human being don't depend on the human being who has the shield and the sword which is fine by King David even though difficulties were coming upon him myself not sure how to read this exactly but it could be it's saying one of two things either it's saying that he didn't depend on his own actions but rather on Hashem or it could be that because he had good actions he had good deeds he knew himself he knew that he was faithful to Hashem so he knew that he could depend his actions themselves were protection for him the misses that we do protect us that there is Magnum matzla the Torah protects it saves us when we of course if we have nothing heaven forbid we have no Mitzvahs so we've spoken about this we can also depend on Hashem because the very myths will be talking itself protects us depending on Hashem itself is an incredible Merit right but it's much better to have be talking alongside and fulfilling the mitzis fulfilling the Commandments learning the Torah when we have those things so then we have a shield we have a sword boy Hashem protects all those who trust in him all those who place their their faith in him which is this parallel idea so we understand what does it mean Hashem is our Mogan he's our Shield so sometimes in order for Hashem to be our shield in order for us to have and Merit for God to Shield us we need to make sure that we've picked up the shield what's what's the method of picking up the shield through the Tyra it seems to be what he's saying the red dock says and we said that Hashem is our Rock Hashem right you see I'm sitting on this rock you see this big rock behind me Hashem is our Rock he's solid right he is our Fortress what is a rock what is a fortress right stone is very powerful right right near a quarry you can hear the banging in the background probably and they take Stone they take Mountain Stone and they use it for buildings there's nothing more powerful than stone stone is very solid it's very uh it has incredible protective abilities homes in in the states are made out of wood wood can burn down rock cannot burn down right so just like a rock and a fortress that a person sequesters himself within it to protect himself from his enemies Hashem Hashem which means the name of Hashem as the radak understand it understands it the name of Hashem is my rock is my Fortress right so I use hashem's name what does it mean I use hashem's name or hashem's name is called upon us it means that the fact that I again am involved in Memphis I'm involved in Tyra I am placing God's name upon myself I'm identifying myself with godliness I am I am somebody who you look at and you see and you think that's a Godly person halavaya should be such a person I'm saying a person who makes every attempt to make the Torah to make the will of Hashem his own will so that person has hashem's name placed upon him Hashem is the one who takes me out okay not so what's the difference between a rock a fortress and a meth fallet is somebody who helps me escape helps me escape the jail helps me escape from my enemies right so it's a further a deeper Praise of Hashem that not only does Hashem save me not only using my rock and my Fortress but a rock and a fortress sometimes I could I could still The Fortress could be penetrated right so you know these enemies can can grab him is telling us that when we trust in hashem's name when we when we rely upon Hashem so we can be assured that Hashem is not just a rock or a fortress sees everything he saves me in every situation he takes me out of the the situation of Oppression he gives me a way out he gives me a way out says the imminent Israel Derek Marshall says why is Hashem as a fortress what's a fortress a fortress is a place where you go on top one type of a tower and from there you look down you feel powerful you're above everyone who's underneath you so in this in a similar way when we have risen up it's a beautiful muscle and we have risen up and we have become spiritual when we have made our ideals very high and lofty so we look down in a certain sense we look down upon our enemies we look down upon those who chase us we look down upon our challenges and we realize that Hashem is with us Hashem is saving us that we have that spiritual strength because of our Good Deeds now he brings from the robin of sady gone Suri Hashem usella what is the description of Hashem is my rock right Suri okay we're gonna see God Is My Rock I trust them what does it mean that Hashem is my rock s a rock is something that you can rely upon you can lean on I'm sitting right now on a rock it's very solid and you sit on a piece of wood again back to the wood you know you can sit on a piece of wood in the wood can rot it can fall apart a rock never falls apart a rock is very solid it's very powerful if it is what this means says is that Hashem is my rock Hashem is the one upon whom I can depend Hashem is the one upon whom I need to trust that when things don't go exactly as I would like them to go I need to accept that which Hashem is decreed persons should not have any other thought in regards to the way that Hashem is leading him in life in the way that Hashem is interacting with him in the way that the world is rolling for that individual foreign we find that the word Surah which is a rock is used in the context of the fact that Hashem all of his actions are completely perfect which means even the situations that we don't understand we don't understand why certain things happen we don't understand why negative things happen in our lives but that's sort of Impala means god is the perfect Rock everything that he does is for our good we need to accept every situation in which we find ourselves so what does it mean I will search for protection near him again the similar thing that we had before which is that if a person believes in Hashem and a person trusts in Hashem so the pile yeah I'd say from that the the result of such a trust is that I need to do that which Hashem commands me right I can't turn to somebody ask them for help and then the next day stab them in the back right the fact that I trust in Hashem the fact that I place my faith in him the fact that I'm asking constantly for salvation for help requires me to now do to follow up on that it means that I have a relationship with God it means that I have to do that which she says again all that which I have been commanded through God's through his Messengers right Moses messenger of God all right boy the words of Hashem are truthful the word tufa means purified right what is the concept of truthful we have it on Yom Kippur in the beautiful palm of how we are like the the the the basic clay the basic form that the the Potter forms into something Rings about a form right so there's also a Cyrus is somebody who takes glass and and he I believe it's the glass it might be it might be the one who uses metal but it Heats it to a certain level and then it's able to form things out of it so Hashem is a serif columnist Hashem they're purified right and and the challenges that we go through are a purification process Ary and I would I would posit that this is also saying that the the very Commandments of Hashem when we fulfill the Commandments it's a challenge it's not easy some of the things are some of the Mitzvahs are enjoyable and some of them are more challenging but they serve to purify us when we've when we commit ourselves to the will of Hashem it serves to purify us and in so doing through that purification process you become more connected to Hashem you become higher individuals as we said before we were able to look down from a higher advantage and we're able to recognize that our enemies are nothing compared to us why because Hashem is in our lives because Hashem is purified us through the actions that we take which are spiritual actions thank you very much for listening that's what we've got for today see you again next time