Bitachon 114 - Tefillah & Bitachon

you're listening to the 114th edition of the podcast and we continue in 22 verse 6 it's the next after the one we discussed last week says that the Jewish people called out to Hashem and hasem brought them out from that danger the Jewish people trust in hem and they were not embarrassed so he brings here first from by the way I just want to mention actually before we read this that uh you might see if you're watching this uh the canopy of trees I'm in a very sunny it's very sunny day today and I have come to a place I found this discovered this place last week which all around me is date I'm sorry fig trees it's like I don't know if it's one tree it's many trees but all around me are these fig trees complete canopy completely enveloped surrounded and there's a space here to sit on a fig limb a limb of the tree and it has a nice smell even though there's no fruits yet but there's a smell of figs and uh it's just a a reminder of hashem's love how it surrounds us Hashem gives us in our lives good smells good surroundings so much good is constantly doing for us we just need to find it we need to find the location says brings that saved the Jewish people on that day right they experience salvation at after they had gone through the yamu after the Egyptians had been destroyed no one was chasing after them anymore they felt an absolute sense of relief saved them on that day what was the reason why were they saved what was the reason for their salvation it was because of their they weren't it was all in the Merit of the fact that they trusted and we're going to see very soon in the next piece that's that's the whole very short but he brings here meas which goes along the same lines and teaches us an incredible thing you know what is the difference between and we've spoken about this idea before is there a difference between and well is active it's not necessarily a feeling it's words we're we're asking hasem to be saved to be helped and is a feeling are they related so he brings here here and we'll see he brings from also the from the brings first the we saw last week trusted inm in Egypt they were saved from the hands of they called out to you like the says so they that's the beginning of our P that we're learning to week the the Jewish people called out to Hashem and they said Hashem save us they groaned they prayed they asked Hashem for help let's get this microphone to face the right direction here and what was the result they were able to escape brings that same p as we saw in the Y was all in the Merit of their their so wait what's going on here there's was it prayer was it was it was it that sense of confidence they felt inside which one was it so he brings here well let's finish the me we'll come back to the says the next p like I am a worm and I'm not a person says this a says the magician amazing thing what is unique about a worm what power does a worm have it's only its mouth right a worm can worm its way through a piece of wood can worm its way through yeah the wood here we are amongst the wood what destroys wood is the the power of the mouth of worm so when says I'm just a worm he means what is our power we are like a worm says the mes we're like a worm what does that mean it means that we have the power of the mouth we can worm our way through our problems just like a worm can uproot a tree with its mouth the Jewish people has the ability through their prayers to uproot any negative decrees that are decreed upon them that the nations of the world are thinking about them this nation is trying to destroy us this nation is trying to kill us this nation is trying to murder us ma us trans transform us into their ideologies what is the power that the the Jewish people have that protects them from all of these designs of our enemies it's the power of prayer it's the power of now so we hear prayer what about how does that how does that interplay with says the here it seems that the men is bringing two concepts and combining them or or having them ride upon each other on one hand it starts off saying that you got to pray you got to D you got to ask for your needs right the really they called out to you but then it finishes often talks about so which one is it continues to go on and talk about like we saw all we have is prayer it seems that the med is explaining the what is the engine of our prayers we dve in every single day last week we spoke about it's very similar conceptually we spoke about the fact that we talk about MIT we talk about the Exodus from Egypt and then we pray what does the speaking about the Exodus from egyp Egypt excuse me engender in US it engenders in US it strengthens our belief that hem performs miracles for those who trust him for those who pray to him once I strengthen my now I can pray now I can DAV so he says also in the opposite direction when I when I pray I'm strengthening my confidence hm is going to take care of me Hashem I'm calling out to you Hashem I'm calling out to you so it's kind of like they they um reinforce each other it's because I but it's because that I that I strengthen my excuse me brings down from the saer of the masik which is as we mention mention this is what he says these are his words a person who person who has the confidence who's working on all of us we need to strengthen our through prayer and asking and begging Hashem remember David King David says I am praised it sounds like I'm not sure exactly the precise translation of that first word but clearly he's saying I call out to hem praiseworthy is the one who calls it to Hashem it's it's it's first person he's saying I'm calling out to hem hasem will save me from my enemies when when I am ding hasem it strengthens it reinforce is the fact that I believe that hasem is going to save me that he's going to take care of me says in my difficulty I call out to to my God I Shall Scream I'll call out to God God help me Hashem save me Hashem sent me parosa hem take care of my children protect them he will listen from from his from his from his from that deep place where he resides he will hear my voice so there's many many says many which express this idea that we strengthen our we strengthen our we strengthen our through our when I ask hem for something I am reinforcing my he says when a person in his in his most inside in his most innermost Chambers in the human heart when he trusts inem so he's giving us a technique he's saying I can strengthen my I can myself through my when I ask hem for something it means I believe that you can provide and you will provide when I ask for something let us not be embarrassed this based on this P because we trusted in you you are the trust and the mainstate of the righteous you are the one who we know that we can depend on ourselves you get to that pause for a moment I've been trying last few weeks to say a little bit of what the each of the bras means to me in English that I saym help me and my family be sadik help me be a righteous person help me trust in your hasem be the one upon whom I can rely show me in my life that you answer prayer that you fulfill the and you are the one who makes the work so to speak so prayer is a powerful potent means in order to be to strengthen beautiful now he brings here when the Jewish people called out to when got closer and closer it seems in the moment when we're asking we're having we're we're in trouble power is getting closer the trouble is getting closer the the rent is due the bills need to be paid but says the the truth is that Hashem decided beforehand already that he's going to save you's R was that they've already been saved adds here in brag even without prayer they already because of their they were already Finning they were already worthy of being saved excuse me have a cold our sages give us an analogy to a King he saw there was a good girl he wanted to marry her he wanted to save her beia but she was captured by robbers he was stuck in their lair he wanted to marry her but he couldn't get her to talk to him she was captured by the robbers she was taken in by them she was she was mesmerized by the robbers and when the king came and you know knocked on the window she wouldn't even respond to him what did the king do the king did something in order to get the robbers to to attack her oh he talk about Israel then the Jewish people called out right we were captured by these robbers hasm wants to bring us in he wants to save us he wants to give us the T he wants to enter into a relationship with us but we're not even calling out to him we're not even asking for help we're not even showing that we want out of the situation where we find ourselves so what does hashm do he makes it harder makes the situation harder but the reason that he does this because he wants to take us out from the beginning he doesn't the the problem is not there the problem is only there in order for us to ask hasm to take us out of the problem because we don't realize that we're already stuck in the problem it says it in past tense they called out they were saved they were already in a state of of Salvation they didn't really need to call out they were calling out because hasem wanted them to want to come out and this is this is the idea the idea is that you have to have that wanting you have to have that good desire to have a relationship with hem how do we know that they had a good will how do you know that they indeed had because they walked into the water before it split like we spoke about last week they weren't embarrassed because they saw that as a result of them having B the water split this the the sea open they weren't embarrassed the moment as we saw came the water came up to his nose the water split so this is another important you say here another powerful foundational Concept in and that is that we think that this situation we find ourselves is something that we have to get ourselves out of but actually the situation is only there so we will have so we will call out to Hashem so we will connect him he just wants connection and if we're walking along going along in our life in a very you know High ho hum hum hum drum way so Hashem needs to wake us up needs to wake us up I'd like to read to you one more section here he points out that there are four different situations this is the bear of four different situations where a person needs to have and they are hinted to we speak about them here in these the bar points out that there's doubling in different languages here it's like these different languages of calling out and trusting and being saved what is all what's all this doubling that's going on here he says I want to I want to give you a give you a very clear breakdown of what's going on in this here are hinting to the fact that there are four different types of ways that hasem saves Us Al if first of them the highest level is that when a person was on a very high level of the earlier Generations so they didn't have to do anything they didn't have to go through even a situation of danger because the danger wouldn't even come to them because of the power of their strength of their confidence in hem the second type is on a lower level the enemy was running after the person and Hashem saves a person without without their needing to call out and without they needing to pray why just again my enemy is running after me forbid but my B is strong enough that I don't even have to ask for help they just get they just like as they're coming they trip and they fall and they die the third type is where we need prayer we need God to help us and we need to do some kind of that takes the form of prayer the fourth type is where they need to fight they need to do more than just pray they need to actually engage in war in order to overcome their enemies and God himself saves us corresponding to the first type which is where you don't have to worry at all is what we saw last week our forefathers trusted in you this can be enough for us to not experience any pain at all on such a high level after the sons of Yakov killed out the inhabitants of Shem for having desecrated the daughter of Yakov so there was a fear over the children of Yakov there was a fear I'm sorry over the Nations everyone around from the children of Yakov and nobody dared to raise a finger to chase after them right so that's a certain level of protection in the BR when we do what we're supposed to do when we're keeping the Torah as we are supposed to promises we will be confident we will not have anyone who causes us fear there will not be any threats of any malactor corresponding to the second type where the enemies are running after us but we don't even need to pray that's the concept that they trusted and you save them they felt some kind of difficulty and pain fear save them that was the that was what happened by that was the type of where they they didn't need to pray like we saw last week and they were saved they just need to move forward the third type where they do need to pray they called out to you and they were saved which is what happened with King Hezekiah with son said the prayer that he prayed I listened to already he didn't have to actually fight against and his men need to leave his house and go to war needed was prayer that was enough to save them the fourth is that they weren't embarrassed we find when came to fight with the Jewish people they call out they cried it wasn't enough to save them till King Saul came for against this enemy and they able to trust inem and in so doing they were saved so as we've seen as we know there's many levels and we talk on how much isas we need to do how much prayer we need to do in all events we have many options at our disposal the main thing is to continue to strengthen ourselves in thank you so much for listening we'll see you next time