Bitachon 140 - Levels of Divine Providence

you're listening to the 140th edition of the B podcast we are going on to the next in a list of chter 33 Verse 18 of the eye of hem faces those who fear Him to the ones who hope to him to who hope for his kindness y says like this he brings us a few different examples of people who trusted in hasem turned to and saved them end of the p is also hasem saves them from their soul from Death all he gives them life when they are hungry Abraham Shar says the the first example of someone who's described in this P ISU Abraham P says now I know right after the the a The Binding of Isaac soem says now I know that you fear me that you fear Hashem so someone who fears Hashem who's the prime example it's to those who hope for's kindness we find that the of Abraham is kindness and therefore the understands that naturally a person who does kindness receives kindness person as a conduit for God's kindness they're going to receive hashem's kindness so that's included in this in order to save their soul from Death we find that was threatened with death he was chased by nimr do not want there to be mention in the world of God and hasem provides for this person the one who trusts in the one who fears him even in a time of famine even even in a time of lacku in the time of lag he went down to Egypt took care of him made him Rich right he didn't just provide for him he gave him an incredible amount of wealth so AB is the first example interestingly the M goes on to talk about it's to skip we're going to come back interestingly the magish understands that where do we see that yakob was someone who feared God the says yob was afraid right so we could ask what does the M mean yob was afraid of Asa he was afraid of his brother but what do we see we see our sages tell us he was afraid that perhaps he had some sin that would cause him to lose in a battle with asov what what did he do he he turned to Hashem right the the fear that he had caused him to turn to God that indicates his it indicates his fear of Hashem his recognition that it's Hashem who will answer him who will take care of him will provide for him says what wasu's request of hm what was his prayer he said Hashem give me clothes to wear give me bread to eat he turned towards hem for his basic necessities he was he he was hoping that kindness would come from God interestingly and connected to our parus right now Yu even though he thought that ysep was dead which meant that would dealt him a terrible blow and certainly even in the reality of it that Yos was sent away it was a terrible blow for 20 2 years you didn't see his son for what for nothing just jealousy of the brothers despite that Yakov did not give up he didn't think oh Hashem Hates Me Oh Hashem doesn't want to give me kindness oh Hashem you know that's it that's it for me he didn't think that he didn't give up hoping to yob needed to be saved from the threat of death from his brother as and we see that was saved from starvation in the in the famine in his times hasem had sent down Yosef in order that they should be able to have food that they should be able to have their needs that they should be able to be provided for so AB is an example of a person who fears Hashem hopes for hashem's for his kindness Y is an example of someone who fears Hashem prays for kindness hopes that hem will provide for him and ultimately in both of these cases in both of these examples Hashem protects them from danger and hasem provides for their needs their basic needs another example of this says the med is that the tribe of leevy the Levites what was their purpose what was their job in the Jewish people they came to Jerusalem they served in the bikash the Levites were involved they were the shim they were the singers they were the once who open the gates of the B mikdash they were they sered the priests themselves were from the tribe of leevy they were the the says that the tribe of Ley the Levites had a special fear of Heaven they are the ones who hasem at all times they doing for us for the Jewish people but they are also the the spiritual ones who turn towards Hashem and ask him for kindness they don't have any normal P they don't have a normal livelihood they work in the the and the priests who come from the tribe of Ley they come into the Bish they come into the temple and they're bringing carbonis and there's a danger they do something wrong they could lose their lives forbid and hasem provides for them so that they not starve the the MERS are special tithes that are given to the priests that are given to the Levites this was provided for them why the pic tells us in the Merit of their fear of heaven and in their hope in their belief that hasem will do kindness with them do you have do with them another explanation another example who is one who feared it's Isaac come back to and we know was willing to be sacrificed on the altar because he knew his father had been commanded so by God interestingly here doesn't bring uh doesn't bring anyim to prove it but we know yes he was willing to be sacrificed he placed his hope and his trust in we find and this is appr propo for today for our times when the children of is seek our death seek our destruction the pic tells us that y was also our great great grandfather he was so sought after by wanted to kill him tells us that saw that he was playing around with the life is was playing around with the life of the tells us he had planted and instead of a regular crop 100 times the regular crop was what he received so so the Mish is telling us bottom line we'll see more about this soon but the Mish is telling us that if we fear hem if we seek his kindness right there so there are two aspects here and we'll see that you can have one without the other and hasem will provide on a different level but the ideal is in our the ideal is in our trust of hem that we feel him that we seek to do his will that we are trying our best to be who hasm wants us to be fulfilling his Torah fulfilling his Commandments studying his Torah trying to understand what his will is and what is the result if we have that and we seek his kindness we trust that he's going to provide for us just as it was with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and just like it was with the tribe of Levi of Ley and as the r says anybody can join so to speak the tribe of Ley anybody who wants to give himself over to Hashem completely we can all have that level such a person will be protected from danger and will be protected from Hunger even though this person think of of the tribe of Ley even though this person may not have a natural source of income may not have a natural way of being saved but as we'll see they will experience a supernatural expression of hashem's kindness the med says like this amazing amazing Med and then there's an amazing Al which will see which will explain it and a whole explanation beyond that of songs King Solomon the BK says 8:14 that my beloved ran away it was like like a like a deer so what does it mean we find that a deer when it sleeps it's wey it it sleeps but one ey is closed and one eyes is open meaning its instincts its wits are about it so that if there's any danger it will wake up it will run away so when the Jewish people are doing hashem's will and Hashem is with us he doesn't run away so to speak from us so Hashem looks at us when we are righteous like like this P says hasem looks at us interestingly in our P it's a single eye but in the it's it's it's two eyes a the eyes of hem look to the righteous they they are looking at those who are righteous when we're doing hm's will we get full as we'll see we get full Divine Providence but what about when we're not so good what about where we're not fulfilling as's will fully says the don't think that AEM when he so to speak runs away from us like a like a deer cuz we're not doing doing his will don't think that his eyes are closed completely one eye is open one eye is closed he's still looking at us with one eye interestingly brings our PK which is also talking about those who fear hasem but it's one eye because this is a different level this p is talking about a different level and this level has to do with when we're not properly serving Hashem does that mean that Hashem does not give us aus does that mean that it's not going to be good for us at all says the men it's not true even when Hashem has so to speak run away from us like a like a deer but he's like a deer and the deer keeps one eye open says the the mes is pointing out that there's a contradiction because one p says that both of hashem's eyes are looking at us and the other B says that only one of hashem's eyes is looking at us says the the higher level the the greater level of Merit is when Hashem puts more on us he looks at us and he gives us more Divine Providence and that's the level of the righteous they Merit to have full full Divine Providence there's a difference though between when APK describes one eye of Hashem versus two eyes of Hashem when the Jewish people have the proper Merit we're doing hashem's will we're seeking his will we are trying our best to keep shabis properly we're trying our best to learn his T properly we're trying us to do with each other we are following the dictates of the T soem gives us the Divine Providence full Divine Providence with two eyes he says both of his eyes of Divine Providence so to speak which means that he gives us what we deserve with both eyes the eye of R of compassion and also the eye of which means we deserve it needs to have compassion on us when we don't really deserve it but for Hashem to give us something that we also deserve it's a higher level it's a deeper level that's the Divine Providence with both eyes like our s say the righteous they have the ability to turn the into which means that in judgment in his in his attribute of Justice he must have mercy on us cuz we're doing what we're supposed to do we deserve it more but let's say the Jewish people don't have the full Mar let's say we don't deserve it so there is one eye open Hashem still has one eye looking at us and it's the eye of his ra because will look at us you got to close that eye the eye of judgment cuz if he looks at us with that eye we don't deserve it but he has one eye open and that's the eye of his compassion interestingly so the challenges will come the Jewish people may experience tragedies difficulties but they will be accompanied by compassion by Love by his ra Okay so that's that's what the AL says it's really quite incredible and I'd like to read you and we're going to spend more than one week on this PK there's a lot to say about it but like to read to you here from the notes he brings from the sh which explains this adds on to what the says listen to this this is incredibly this is so important for us Hashem wants us to know that he is doing kindness with us he wants us to know and he loves us he's taking care of us we find our say just say when you do a favor to somebody you should tell them the person has they appreciate that you did them a favor right talks about if you don't tell me he might stab you in the back and and it's much worse if he stabs you in the back because if he would have known that you did the kindness he wouldn't have done that so if he doesn't know about it and he stabs you in the back and you did him with kindness it's a terrible travesty but it could be prevented it's marus there's something to doing an anonymous kindness but it's Mar like think about what happens on P there's so much joy and love when we're openly giving to each other so Hashem is the same wants us to know that that he's doing us favors most people don't realize that Hashem is doing so much kindness with them they don't pay attention to it right let's say a gu's walking on the path and there are robbers along the path who won't steal what he has he doesn't know about it and then hasem does something to prevent them the robbers from from attacking him but he's not even aware that there were robbers the person doesn't even notice that hasem did this that hasm took care of him that hasm was watching out for him so what does Hashem doing he wants the person to know the person who's not thinking about God person who's not looking for his kindnesses is not recognizing it Hashem makes that person afraid oh my gosh there could be robbers here it could be who who knows what's in in this place and will let them perhaps even see that there are are robbers the robbers might even come but he'll be saved why so that they will they will recognize hasem saved them wants them to know but a righteous individual who realizes and recognizes that everything that happens in his life is from Hashem he's constantly thinking about it he's constantly acknowledging it does an extra kindness with that person because it's not necessary for him to make the person scared he won't experience fear he you won't experience confusion the word the word ey which we're using here the eye of Hashem is on those who fear Him the eye the eyes of Hashem are on the righteous so it refers to hashem's Divine Providence is it so here our sages are teaching us they're tenting to us that when we do hashem's will if we recognize the kindness of is with us all the time he's constantly guiding us taking care of us so then we get a double we get more Divine Providence first is that we won't fall into the hands of those who wish to cause us destruction wish to cause us damage wish to take our money or whatever second is that they won't have any fear there's no fear if we're constantly thinking about hasem and recognizing his kindness doesn't need to put us in a state of fear that's that's the righteous the experience of the righteous is that Hashem looks at them and takes care of them and and gives them Divine Providence with two eyes but the general populace that doesn't think about Hashem doesn't recognize his kindnesses when Hashem is giving them kindnesses so Hashem has to give them danger fear confusion in order for them to recognize that they should recognize that hem has saved them and helped them at least afterwards that's what the P refers to as Divine Providence with one eye so think about it let's think about this let's take this message to Heart let's recognize Hashem in our lives the more we recognize it the more clear it becomes the more he shows it to us andless it's necessary for him to wake us up thanks so much for listening see you again next time