Bitachon 144 - Israel's Natural is Supernatural

you're listening to the 144th Edition podcast we're studying together in chapter 33 of the of Psalms inem will our hearts Rejoice because we trusted in His holy name May the kindness of hasem be with us corresponding to how much we have trusted in him so we're in the middle of discussing this idea that the way that hasem interacts with us corresponds to how much B we have in him he brings here the which says it's already known that Hashem has two ways of interacting with us one is a natural way of interacting in and one is a miraculous way when hem interacts with his sikim with the righteous individuals who we all would like to be like them like we say in regards to the righteous give good reward to all those who trust in your name in truth we want to be like them right so we want to be like the righteous May we're not yet righteous maybe we'll ever be righteous but we want to be like them we want to be in their company so those who are righteous as we say they have they have extra they have deals with them in a supernatural way says the earlier Generations they used to give themselves over to sanctify God's name which means things were tough things were hard maybe even their their lives were on the line but no matter what they were willing to do the difficult thing in order to serve Hashem properly so because of that because of their commitment because of their self-sacrifice they merited to have Miracles occur for them explains [Music] there so we find this idea already in the but it's thear really it's already from the time of the gamor that according to how we interact with hem according to how we trust in hasem according to how much we're willing to sacrifice for for what we know is right the shef of hasem the influx the Divine influx comes down upon us if I act in a natural way meaning I just say look this is my nature I I I can't overcome it this is how things are if I go with if I go with nature Hashem gives me over to I the the way that hm interacts with me is with nature in a natural way when a person acts in a supernatural way withm also interacts with him with a miraculous interaction and therefore the earlier Generations who are willing to sacrifice themselves to do that which was right to sanctify God's name Hashem also interacted with them this way in a miraculous way meaning when we go past be above and beyond what we are comfortable with we move out of our comfort zone in our service of Hem Hem also goes above and beyond for us and that in my opinion is what the verse says our kindness will be upon us based on how much we have yearned for him based on how much we Haden in him how much we trusted in him so it's very interesting because the is basically saying that is synonymous with being willing to sacrifice for God's name if I'm trusting in hem it means that I'm not going necessarily with the more natural way of being I'm going with a supernatural I'm interested did in the Supernatural now he brings him a Savor called Cole Ben leevy now listen to this and for this reason we have gone down in all of the generations why have why have the Jewish people throughout time for the last 2,000 years as we were in GIS until very recently why have we always been downtrodden why have we always had trouble with parnasa with livelihood why have the nations of the world always kept us under their boot says the there's a spiritual reason for it when we went down in our trust in hem and our connection to hem we are literally like blind people in spiritual terms I like anybody who has has eyes to see and heart to feel we understand the fact that the Jewish people exist is Supernatural we're only here in this because of helping us but because we're used to God's Supernatural intervention in our lives personally and nationally we're not we're not like Amazed by it we don't think about it we don't even we don't even consider it but because we haven't recognized it because we don't look for's hand in our lives this is the most fundamental mistake that we can make and we've lost our spiritual Joy or spiritual a sense of spiritual wealth we've gone down and further down even though we didn't notice it if we look at it each day it's a gradual descent if we look at our spiritual level and we look at it not just in a day byday basis because you know like a child grows you don't notice all of a sudden the kid's big right the child is big but it happened gradually but it also happens in a negative sense gradually says in Psalm 109 verse 23 it says that I went like the the the Shadows the Shadows if you flip from the beginning of this video quickly to the end of the video you'll watch all these Shadows right here move moving slowly as the sun moves but it's very gradual if you're just watching it you don't notice it happening you have to move it at quick speed in the middle of the day at at noon so the sun is directly overhead and the shade is very very small as it gets closer to evening as the Sun starts to set the the shade gets very long so to the opposite when the day begins so the the the shade is very long as it gets to noon it gets very short did any person ever see as he's watching it that the the shade gets bigger or smaller it's so gradual it's not noticeable the human eye doesn't notice this so to it is what said when he referred to himself you know understanding that he's done something wrong and it crept up gradually on him so to we in our level in our relationship with hem it's crept up gradually on us we don't notice it from day to day only if we look at the the the broader picture if we see time we look at at at a greater length of time we'll see it he means I've turned away having forbid from the path of the Torah slowly I didn't notice it just happened gradually until all of a sudden I notice oh my gosh if I look over the last five years last year whatever I've fallen but in in if we if we look at it in the broader picture so we see that we were shaken like in a in a in a great amount the word ARA not sure exactly what it means and probably means like uh locusts like a huge swarm of locusts they come suddenly they attack is yeah so it's as if I was emptied out of the T and the Mitzvah as if the the locusts came and devoured everything all of my t all of my MIT they came and they devoured it and they come quickly says the Ben also when it comes to our par or livelihood we can destroy our own livelihood in this way the way that a person acts hem interacts with us as we saw before from the day that we give ourselves over to to Nature also gives us over to Nature there's a note here which we'll get back to uh when we complete this the Ley DAV as the words of King David like we say we're saying now every day in this is the famous idea we mentioned this Believe last week Hashem is our protector Hashem is the shade next to our right hand it's certainly true that God is your protector but the question is how does he protect you how does he guard you Hashem is the shade next to your right hand just like the shade moves with the person the shade moves if you're walking along if I'm walking along this path behind me so you'll see the shade moves with me and wherever wherever a person goes hashem's protection goes with him if you go to the right side also accompany you to the right if you go to the left side which is the weaker side which is the side of oura natural being involved in natural uh means will also go us in that way and the earlier explanations the explained that when the says ourm will be with you his kindness will be with you as you hoped to him that kindness of hem goes based on how much we have I'd like to read to you from the note tells us as follows explains this in his way said listen to this because this is really mindblowing it kind of turns on its head we think that the regular way of doing things is being involved inas being involved in taking action putting in efforts that's the regular way but he turns this idea on its head and says listen you want to know how to have parnasa don't worry about your parasa don't worry about your livelihood he says when a person worries about his livelihood it it it creates a constriction of the shef of the Divine influx that God wants to send with he says this in inar on the verse which is talking about shita which is as we've learned together the quintessential representation of in the of we will be in the seventh year I can't plow my field I can't work my field reassures don't worry don't ask this question what am I going to eat I will send out my blessing I will command my blessing they'll have enough for the sixth year the seventh year the eighth year this is what the says in the name of the brother of the well-known here's his his words the T here is doing something unusual the way the is to say something maybe an extra word or extra language even an extra letter and it will actually answer your question before you even ask it why ises the say and if you will ask what will I eat in the seventh year the ter should have just said I'm going to give you my blessing in the sixth year you'll have enough for six seven and eight and then the person would even ask the question in the first place why is it tell you why is the Tyra specifically saying you might ask this question and here's the answer why does the Tyra say the question he says something amazing he says it we see from here we can learn from here that when he created the world so he made pipes so to speak he made uh channels better said through which he sends down his CH his Divine influx to the world to us every individual to to Nations Etc there's no blocks in these pipes in these channels Hashem sends it down it comes down to us we receive it that's the natural Order of Things how do we block it when a person falls down in his level and he doesn't have he doesn't trust that hasem is going to take care of him when the person doubts that hasm when a person doesn't have doesn't have the confidence that hem is going to provide for me today every day he always does he always will that very thought causes the very thing that he fears it creates a blemish in the upper world the natural order is that that there's unceasing flow through all the channels what stops it our lack of belief in the natural ways to just have to be confident like a baby a child the the children our children are not afraid they don't they're not worried about parosa livelihood they know the that it always comes childlike innocence childlike belief confidence if we don't have that confidence if we don't have that belief heav forbid the very fear causes the flow to stop so because we stopped it hasem has to reintroduce a new command to bring it back to the way it was before the is telling us that if you will say it's going to create a problem that's what the ter is teaching us the is telling us be complete beh whole in your trust inem don't say this don't say what are we going to eat in the seventh year when a person falls from his level of trust in hem and he ask this question what am I going to eat that creates a blemish in the flow and that caes hem to be bothered so to speak to have to create a new command to to start the flow again so what it means is if he will say meaning when you say this it's going to it's going to cause me to have to start the whole thing over is saying don't say this trust in with all your heart if you just have it will just come it will just flow the only thing that stops IT is lack of so it's amazing it means a natural way I'm saying it again because it's so important and I want to repeat it for myself and I want to I want to I want us to think about it over and over again the natural way that a who created the world is that we have what we need it's just flowing the money's coming the livelihood is there everything that we need is available for us that's the natural order the only thing that stops it is our lack of our lack of belief one final piece here from M Sur on this when we ask God for kindness it comes corresponding to how much we hope to hem how much we have confidence that will give us what we ask for that's what we say may your kindness be upon us as we have hoped to you that the hope and the confidence the belief in the kindness of God they are the vessel that measures to bring us that kindness when this C is missing or has a blemish so it will cause that the kindness of Hashem that he wants to bring down to flow to us will be missing as well so it's so important our our belief our opening to Hashem it opens up everything it clears all of the possible blocks that could stop the flow from coming down to us and that's the power of thank you so much for listening we'll see you again next time