Bitachon 141 - Israel's Special Providence

you're listening to the 141st edition of the podcast and we continue we're learning the PK together elov behold the eye the singular eye of Hashem is upon those who fear Him towards those to those who desire his kindness so last week we spoke about the different levels of different possibilities one eye two eyes depending on a person's level over righteousness let's see some other ideas this week brings the brings the which brings this which he brings in the bottom see this idea that it says which is like we saw last last time when a person serves Hashem out of love when my focus and my uh the way that I'm my Approach when my Approach and my focus is to serve Hashem out of love so then so then if I'm serving hem out of love if I'm trying to do what's right so then Divine Providence is upon me with two eyes and hasem does a personal miracle for me this is a slightly different idea that the r Alit says that when I serve Hashem out of fear not out of not out of love so then hasem um his kindness is shown to me his his Divine Providence is shown to me with with one eye I get two eyes when I serve AEM out of love right having a real relationship with anybody and certainly with Hashem so the ideal relationship is one of love and that creates a special bond and a special as a special div Providence so the brings this he says I want to sweeten this idea we find that Hashem generally when he deals with us when he deals with mankind so the way that he deals with us is based on T based on natural means he shows us his Divine and but we have to look for it right we don't see an outright miracle but there's also another type of another way that hasem interacts with us and that is through n through Miracles Beyond nature what he written he brings her in the note explaining I'm not going to read the not inside but he brings from the r the rambam says that according to how much I attack my intellect to Hashem Hashem is the ultimate intellect Hashem is the ultimate mind his mind so to speak is what created the world he created the world through his words through his decisions so to the degree that I attach myself to the true intellect to the tah to hashem's will so I get hash I get Divine Providence so the that's the words that he uses here the the the Divine Providence that I get depends on my understanding the amount that I intellectually have attached myself to God and to his will so once again when I try to understand the will of hasem when I'm when I'm focused on doing God's Will and trying to be righteous and as we said serving hasm with love so then hasem looks at me with two eyes as it were so it means that I can Merit Miracles when I attach myself properly to hem when I serve him out of love so then I Merit to have open miracles in the Divine Providence that hasm wants to show me but if I'm not doing so if I'm not serving Hashem in the in to the best of my ability let's say I'm not serving him out of love I'm not I'm not trying to attach my will to his will I'm not trying to understand hashem's ways so that doesn't mean that I'm not going to have as it doesn't mean that there won't be Divine Providence there will be but it will be in a natural way it's not going to be open Miracles and this is based on the C the the attribute of divine Justice right so but what do we see at the end of the once again says and we saw last week that the two eyes of hm the extra Divine Providence the miraculous Providence so that's something that's that a person can can attain through his righteousness but that doesn't Prelude AEM if wants if we seek his kindness even if we're not so righteous makim so of course Hashem can do whatever he wants and he can Hashem looks at us from between the cracks which means that even though a person of course it's it's the ideal is that we should try to understand hasem we should try to understand his will for us we should try to serve him out of love but even if we don't attain that hasem still is us he still watches over us there's still Divine Providence over us okay so it's it's important to know that are higher levels of course but don't give up there's always a possibility for us to have Divine Providence okay he brings here from the the says that I should hope to it's interesting we've spoken in the past different languages of be talking talk about there's there's faith we talking is more confidence what's we spoke about it once we read from from the from the means it's there is hope it doesn't just mean hope it means we strongly believe right it's a Cav means that Cav means a line there's a straight line to God so it's interesting to notice that in in the in the that we prayed day three times a day we mention in two contexts one is speaking of the righteous we see at the end give good reward to all those who trust in your your name and truth so we talking about and help us be is the one who we can rely upon the righteous who trust in him he's the one that they're trusting in we talk about we also talk about where are we talking about at the end of we say thank you thank you for being our god thank you for our lives thank you for our souls thank you for your Miracles thank you for the kindnesses that you do there's no end to your kindness you're always doing kindnesses for us and we end up by saying we always hope to you which means we have so there's two things there's that's the of the righteous and then there's the K there's the we see how much you do for us thank youh for us all all the amazing things Our lives our souls our your Miracles your kindnesses we know we can trust you we know we can depend on you we know we can hope to you we always hope to you it's interesting to to point out we have that in the ding so the US the of a person should have hoping to or more than hoping it's more than hoping it's it's it's belief I believe that hasem is going to straighten my paths with his compassion with his great kindness will save me from something that's bad for me should help me have the things that are good for me now what does that mean there's a little prayer here that the Karm is giving us so help me to choose good help me choose the things that are good for me the things that are right in your eyes me choose that that which is right and and push away that which is evil be disgusted by evil are the key even when it comes to a person choosing his ways and say I'm involved in certain actions I'm involved in certain business dealings I'm involved in whatever my involvement is in my life it's not so easy to choose what's right it's not so easy to make sure I'm doing what's right I need God's Divine assistance King Solomon says it's possible person to to choose something it looks good to me but in the end it might not it might be the way the path to death path to spiritual death it's hem who guides a person's steps the human being what does he know about his ways so we need Divine Providence we need hasem to make sure that we are going on the correct path says if a person recognizes I've done things that are wrong I've done sins maybe I can't have maybe I can't hope that hem will take care of me and put me on the right path no he says don't give up don't stop hoping that hem will guide you right the P teaches us that if we hope to Hashem if we hope to Hashem which means we trust in Hashem we pray to him we ask him for help even if we've done something wrong we can still depend on him and he will still do good for us right says hem turns his eye towards those who fear Him and doesn't say those who fear Him and are it says those who fear Him and also those who turn towards him and desire his kindness when a person encounters difficulties and challenges and many of them person needs to strengthen himself don't give up there is nothing that can stop from giving the person his desires from giving a person the things that are good hem wants to do good to us he's our father he loves us God's ability is unending God has the power in his hand to take him out of his challenge his difficulty to a to a wide space through his compassion through his great kindness shame that are unending and this type of thought should Aid a person to continue to trust in hem okay so yes we need to know that righteousness the more righteous I am the higher my level of Love of hem the more I'm attached to to trying to understand hashem's will to T Etc I get a unique a special level of Divine Providence but don't give up if I'm not doing what's right I can't give up I got to know that Hashem still if I turn towards him even though I've done things that are wrong I've turned away from his will he will still he will still help me he will still guide me he will still take care of me all I need to do is turn to him and ask him for help straighten out excuse me straighten out my path straighten out help me do what's right how me on going the right way he's speaking here about the amazing the unique Divine Providence that Hashem shows to the people of Israel to CL Israel greater than this he says now we're going to have a Twist we're talking about AEM if both eyes of hm are watching a person that's greater than one ey so here is going to give us a different understanding where actually one eye has a different connotation he points out it doesn't say the two eyes of hem it says one eye of hem when a person aims an arrow or he aims a gun you don't look with two eyes you close one eye and aim right sometimes when you have two different eyes looking at something the the the multiple perspectives gives confusion you want to look at something carefully you close one eye and then you aim when the PK wants to say that that someone gave his full attention to something his absolute full attention it says it it describes it by saying he looked at it with one eye we just saw this says to his brothers bring down Benjamin I want to look I want I want to put my eye on him I want to look at him with one eye I want to look at him I want to give him my full attention he brings from have the same idea take him and put your eye on him singular I put my eye on them for good in Jeremiah 24:6 since when a person looks with desire or looks with full attention so it has this aspect it has this singular eye which speaks about someone who loves somebody else talks and it's of course the the the relationship between Hasam and the Jewish people and it's speaking about how the kala which is am the girl that's us in our relationship ship with hm we have shown love for Hashem with one of our eyes it doesn't mean with a lack of attention means with full attention so that's why it says that hasem looks with one eye at those who fear Him and so it indicates the special of Cl the Jewish people let's read here there's a a note and he explains at length explains at length the special the special relationship that God has with the people of Israel as opposed to all other nations of the world here's the quote it's like someone who looks at something very carefully because he wants to give it his full attention and he wants to do as much good as he can for the thing that he's looking at by looking at it carefully he can make sure he can tell what's needed here what needs to be done for a full rectification in this circumstance and how can I protect it properly this is how hasem looks at us and it's not how hasem pays attention so to speak to the nations of the world now this doesn't mean that there's no the nations of the world there is Divine Providence upon the nations of the world but it's a different type and it could be explained that the general the general Divine Providence that shows generally to the nations of the world that's not that's not his first that's not his most important place that he he he he puts his attention his main attention his singular eye his Focus that he aims at in a good way of course is to those who hope to his kindness it's in that which hasem is nullifies the plans of the evil ones he he as the P says in the continuation of the P Hashem focuses on us to save us from anything that could go wrong from any uh plans that our enemies have use us life even when there is hunger okay so so we learned a lot here in this puzzle we learned a lot as far as our serving hem ideally the more the better we're trying to serve hem we're trying to understand his will for us the greater is our but if we aren't properly serving hem don't give up still and there's a special relationship that we have the Jewish people has with Hashem that Divine Providence because we search for his will and we are shining his light into the world thanks so much for listening we'll see you again next time