Bitachon 150 - All Your Heart's Wishes

you're listening to the 150th edition of the podcast and we continue in chapter 37 verse4 into we're going to have a number of from this chapter chapter 37 is chalk full of so last week these are twoim consecutive last week and the week before we spoke about the Trust on and do Goodwell in the land and be Shepherd of faith and the following PK is our PK and you will enjoy you will have an Ong enjoy Hashem Hashem will give you all of your desires all of the things that your heart desires that you request so this should sound a little familiar we talk about on shab which quotes this in reference to shab whoever enjoys the chabas makes shabas the seventh day of the week the day of rest into a day of enjoyment a day specifically set aside to have special things so a person who does that he gets all of his heart's desires fulfilled as a says uh if you are careful to enjoy your relationship we could say with Hashem so hasm will give you all of your heart's desires so it's very interesting what is the concept of chabas we're not going to get into this at length but the we're going to talk about it so let's let's talk about it shabas is the day we set aside we don't work on chabas we don't speak about our work on chabas it's the day when we focus on our family on singing zir singing songs of praise to God on studying hashem's Torah going to sh hearing the Torah reading hearing the rabis DHA Etc shabas is a time when we could say we turn away from all of the actions of the week all of the involvement all the isas all the things that we do in order to provide for ourselves provide for our families it's all on pause shabis everything is ready everything is prepared from before and ready to we're just living with Hashem we're living in a state shabas it's true of shabas is true of shita we're living in a state of pure trust in Hashem and what's the result of living in that state living in a shabas state of mind the result is that all of our requests are fulfilled all of our heart's desires are fulfilled now he brings to the P of what's the connection between these two verses that we read together first one talking about trusting in hem second one talking about enjoying God it means through through my trust inem that's how I enjoy that's how I have an ecstatic relationship with God and enjoyment of God which because of like the writes in part on the verse that says that we're to work for six days you're supposed to do all of your work you are to rest on chabas as if all of your work is already completed there's no more work to do there's nothing to get back to on Sunday there's nothing there's nothing that needs to be completed shabas on shabas we are already complete the intent here is that it's completed already through our through our faith in God and the result will be can be or the sense has to be perhaps we could say that the result is that we don't need anything more to be done no more no more work needs to be done or will need to be done let's say shabas would just continue shabas would not end on shabas it would just keep going and you wouldn't be allowed to continue to work again on Sunday all the work would be done on its own you wouldn't need to be involved in any work so it's not clear to me exactly what he's trying to say but perhaps we can understand it by saying that the sensation the feeling that a person has on chabas should be one that this is going to last forever chabas lasts forever the feeling of completion and I I don't have to be involved in any work today on shabas I don't have to be thinking about my work I don't have to be worried about where the money is going to come from that sensation or that feeling it could just continue it could just continue the the sensation is one that it's like it's not just oh I'm okay for today it's I'm okay forever it's nice here brings the what does my service of hasem look like what does it look like when I'm involved in doing God's will it looks joyful it's enjoyable when a person lives with that kind of service of hem if that's my approach to my service of hm if that's what it looks like so then Hashem is going to give me everything I need right and here he says the next we're going to speak about is the next in the roll onto give over to hem that we're going to speak about at length in the coming weeks we're going to speak about the fact that when a person's cavana when his intent is for the right reasons when I'm trying to do God's will when I'm trying to have a relationship with hem I'm trying to serve trying to serve him properly so then the result is that Hashem gives me what I need in order to be able to continue to serve him properly they come it comes hand in end it's a relationship brings the the son this is also interesting thing we've spoken about contrast between prayer and do I need to actually say anything do I need to actually ask hasem for what I want or do I just is it just a feeling inside that I know that I'm going to get what I need I'm going to have trust in Hashem as just going to come without me even saying it says beside to go God gives us the desires of our heart we don't even have to say it knows obviously what's inside of our hearts but when we have be the is so powerful that precludes the the necessity of saying of saying a prayer or saying what we would like she knows what we would like the says wants to give us our needs when we attach ourselves completely to him why Hashem is concerned about us he's concerned about our souls if he gives us success before we've completely attached ourselves to him we run a danger we want we we run a risk the risk is that my My Success will be my undoing because if Hashem gives me success without my being completely attached to him I would say without my having full humility without my being fully aware of where the success is coming from I could fall off the path I could I could get destroyed by my very success that's why it says when you're what does it mean m means to enjoy God it means to have an enjoyment but what it really means says the iitz is that when I'm completely attached to Hashem where is my enjoyment coming from it's not coming from physical matters it's not coming from being in a beautiful sunny forest you know that's not where it comes from it comes from a recognition that Hashem is the one giving me this beautiful place to be Hashem is the one providing me with this beautiful lesson to learn Hashem is the one giving me the wonderful family that surrounds me when when I recognize when I when I'm attached to Hashem when my thoughts are attached to him when my my my desires my my aspirations are attached to Hashem so then there's nothing barring me there's nothing to block me from getting what I really need what I really want because it won't pull me down if I get what I want here he brings a little note from the to of sometimes you can have a a a rich I'm sorry a person who's sadic a righteous individual but why does a make him Rich so the T of the T of says that we got to be honest if this person gets Rich he may become recalcitrant in his service of God in his in his study of Torah hm knows what's going on with us hhm understands USM knows that you know on one hand of course if you don't have your needs it's also a a uh significant distraction but sometimes having too much can be a greater distraction says rash on this it's as it were it's on hashem's Bill right you're asking him you're you're depending on him for all your needs you can also ask him for something extra you know can can give a parent who loves his kid okay candies aren't healthy but some once in a while it's okay to have a candy foto like they say in Hebrew to to give the kid something extra to to give him an extra enjoyment you can do it you can depend on Hashem for something like that as well we'll see more about that shortly but the the idea that came into my mind as I read this as I Was preparing is like you're you're walking into the king's court because you need to ask the king for a very important matter to you know you need him to help you and the king in his court it's it's a feast there's servants walking around with orves with with plates full of food for whoever is there inside of the inside of the of the the place where the king spends his day the king doesn't go through it through a day without having lots of enjoyable snacks Etc and you walk in there and and it's ra K right a king he a king in order to show his wealth he doesn't just make enough for himself there's enough for anyone who comes so when you walk in there to get an audience with the King they offer you tables and uh trays and trays of of different enjoyable Foods so comes with a territory if you're walking in so to speak to a KES who's Court you're walking in there to try to ask God for whatever you need you can also along the way have an enjoyable delicacy perhaps that's rash alongside your requests for whatever you need you can also have these enjoyments he brings here from from this we spoke about when we study together M don't think that when you ask in hasem that you're going to get your needs provided for it's only going to be precisely exactly the most minimalistic requirements to live bread and water and for anything beyond that okay might be talking we work for my basic necessities but if I want more than my basic necessities I'm going to have to you know put the pedal to the metal get myself going go around and you know do what needs to be done to to raise the money if I want to have a lot more if I want to have enjoyments I'm going to have to work hard for that it's not the case rather when it comes TOS me for beyond the minimal requirements of a human being if I want to have a beautiful home I want to have a garden I want to have beautiful Hills nearby to be able to walk around and enjoy the nature of hem that's part of it that's part of what provides me with I can ask hm for whatever I want any enjoyments I want will give me all of the desires of my heart like say famous which we learned together more than once we saw in was a poor man who came in front of asked him what do you like to eat so the poor man said I eat um fattened chicken and old wine very expensive meal but that's what I always eat RAB says to him you're taking money from Saka that's what you're spending it on how can you push the to have to pay for your lavish lifestyle they to he said not eating I'm not using their money is the one who provides for me says provides Mar tells us that at that moment R's sister we hadn't seen in 13 years comes into the house knocks on the door comes into the house and and brings exactly what this man said fat and chicken it was a gift to R fat and chicken and old wine apologizes to the man we see that even even though these were not basic necessities he doesn't need fat and chicken he doesn't need old wine he drink a cup of water and he can have a little piece of bread right but Hashem provided for him because of his he said Hashem is the one who provides for me has provided for him to to clearly show that when you have can have for Beyond Basics beyond beyond the basic necessities of right that's why the next p says but make your ways dependent on him make your ways dependent on Hashem what does it mean when you indeed request of or you have he's going to provide for you beyond your basic needs but make sure that your intent is not just to enjoy and to eat and drink and be merry in this world keep your keep your focus clear that the reason that you're doing it is not in order to be you know someone who's involved in this world but rather that I should be healthy that I should be able to serve AEM properly and this is how you'll be able to live a long life I'm sorry the intent should be that you're having these things to be able to have a long life a healthy life to be able to fulfill aem's will on the bottom of the in the bottom of the sa here in in the notes he brings the famous story with let's read it because it's such a great story always get to remind ourselves he brings incredible thing in this matter it's in the middle of section 11 on the May hashem's kindness be upon us as we desired these are his words quote okay you can imagine two is sitting with with a rashash the famous St Library they were learning in the the the concept of said you can only trust on hem for something which is absolutely necessary he said you can't trust in you cannot be talking for something that's beyond your your uh basic necessities said no it's not true you can talk even for something that's not absolutely necessary if a person has true hasem will provide for him even if it's not a basic necessity you to and out of his mouth shot an example he said look he he says I don't have a watch I could use a watch for a few different reasons I don't need it absolutely I could live without it so it's definitely something which qualifies for uh beyond my Necessities he says if I have Absolut could give me a watch the the words came out of his mouth right away the the door of the opens this guy comes in the door and he says and the guy comes in the door and he says look in uh there was a man who just passed away an army person the base of and he left in his will that his watch his golden watch doesn't say that here in this version but it was a golden watch golden was should be brought to the and he commanded in his will to give it over to that should give the watch to a person who one of the who needs watch took this watch from this person right he gave it into the hands he God has shown us that you're right that a person can also Trust on H comes to extra things as long as he has complete and absolute faith in hasem can work as well thanks so much for listening see you again next time