Bitachon 151 - Israel's Attachment to G-d

you're listening to the 151st edition of the B podcast and we continue in chapter 37: 4 of the Torah tells us King David exorts us in our as we have as we have more and more trust in God there's going to be an enjoyment we'll see what that enjoyment looks like there's going to be a special enjoyment that we experience as we come close to God hm will give us all of our requests will give us all of the requests of our hearts which we'll see more about that as well says the you will enjoy God which means that there'll be a special enjoyment in my relationship with hem in my attempts in my um in my spiritual yearnings as I try to do do God's will I'll have a special enjoyment for example when I attain Holiness on shabas shabas as we spoke about last time when I have that day of rest the day of kadua the day of Holiness so the more I relate to spiritual matters the more I relate to my spiritual side the more I relate to God the the deeper the enjoyment will be of shabas to reference as we said last time says that whoever enjoys shabas so hasem gives him all of his desires all of his heart's desires the result is I'm attached I'm connected to God's divine presence and I become ready to be paid so to speak to receive my reward through being involved in Torah being involved in in fulfilling the Commandments when I have these kinds of thoughts when I'm intending as I keep shabas as I learn Torah as I keep the mitzah of hem his his Commandments when I have the intent the effect the net effect is that I'm transforming the physical enjoyments that I have in life instead of focusing on on those enjoyments I'm more involved in spiritual enjoyments I'm more involved in trying to hear a good Torah trying to find a good message trying to serve hasem more properly understand his will better so it changes what I enjoy and the result is that if I change if I change my focus if I change what's important to me if I change what is it that I'm trying to enjoy so then because I've done that so it's appropriate that all of my other needs are fulfilled all of my Art's desires also become fulfilled without any without any limitation CU When my heart desires something because I've switched what's important to me so I'm not going to be asking for anything negative when I when I when we talk about my hearts thear the thing that I'm going to start to want will be those things that give me spiritual success that will be my desire so since I've changed what I want generally so all of my desire will be fulfilled because they'll become spiritual desires that's the there's a sa called he says like this many times we ask hem for something we think is going to be good for us we think it's good he wants to have all he wants these things cuz this way he'll have all the good in the world he'll have all the success in the world Our Father Like a good father the father who loves his kid wants to give the kid whatever he wants as it were knows the future hm knows that if the person succeeds in getting these particular items that he wants he wishes for the success that he wants Etc the person is going to end up in a situation that's going to be bad for him so how does HM solve his problem so to speak listen to this this is incredible I think this is really continuation if my focus is on trying to do hashem's will if my focus is on on trust in hem so the the net result is that Hashem steers my mind directs my thoughts will put in my mind that the things that I want generally speaking will be things that are actually good for me that's what the verse means when it says will give you the desires of your heart will place in your mind the idea of what to ask for and you'll have that which is actually good for you so this is an interesting point because one of the classic questions that we ask when it comes to B is well what if what I want is not so good what if it's not really good for me so I've said different ideas I've said that can make it good for you but this is a new idea this is a deep idea that hasem actually puts in Our Minds when we're striving to be close to him hasem puts in our minds to request the things that are going to be good for us he brings here the he says that what does it mean so on the side he gives an explanation what the izra means we're going to go to this explanation because the next piece in the is really continuation of this that when I have the proper kavana when I focus my prayers to Hashem when I have uh when I have a desire to have a relationship with Hashem so the result is this Sonic we'll see more about this but the prayer itself that I pray becomes enjoyable because through the prayer I'm attaching connecting to God says if you want a matter anything from the good of this world so turn your question deeply to to your creator will not um hold back from you that which your eyes desire that which you see that you want the which sounds like enjoy God it refers to prayer and it refers to prayer as an enjoyment which means request it's request the things that you enjoy because it's teaching us it uses this word to to mean prayer because it's teaching us what kind of prayer we should be saying this is the prayer says the IIT which is said with powerful intent powerful Focus until the person who's praising God in this way or praying to hasem In This Way has an enjoyment When you pray well when you pray properly it it feels good one of the sages of the said that he had a day where he had proper intent in his prayer with it was such an enjoyment it was so pleasurable that they felt awesome the entire day we find says they spent an hour before preparing for prayer an hour during prayer an hour afterwards coming down from that prayer through their prayer they were able to reach a level ofes of divine inspiration that's why the says enjoy the prayer that we have is I who thinks about it this way but theid says it so we got to think about it this way the prayer that we have is an opportunity for Joy for enjoyment sometimes the reason listen to this the reason why prayer is not successful is because I didn't enjoy my prayer enough Hashem wants the wants us to enjoy our prayer to feel connected to him through the prayer to feel a sense of of sim in our prayer and sometimes we don't get what we pray for yet because hem wants us to pray more deeply to pray in a more connected way wants us through our request to him to enjoy our connection to him and to turn our face towards him he Rings another thing from the from a different place another aspect so we talked about prayer with joy but here he talks about prayer with tears when I pray when I doav with tears it's something that's very desirable to comes from the depths of my art so if I pray with with full meaning with full sincerity to the point of Tears it reaches all the way up to the highest Heavens to the to the heart of the heavens if a person does this sayit if a person doens with with tears you are guaranteed that your prayers will be answered says Psalm 10 verse 17 when you prepair your heart when your heart is fully we could say directed completely hase's ears will hear we find says we say every day in hasm is close to all those who call out him in truth when we pray for real it's a it's a guarantee that our prayers will be heard he says the prayer of the upright which means a real prayer is what God desires second part of the previous verse God hears the prayers the real prayers that we pray with sincerity God hears them and he saves us then he brings our or similar to ours we have when we pray completely and we pray with an attachment what is an what does enjoyment mean it's complete attachment to an experience experiencing something fully so hasm will give us all of our desires that if we attach ourselves to the enjoyment of God in our prayers and we pray to him completely sincerely with full attachment will hear us listen to this powerful statement of the aits all spiritual matters that we do with all of our heart we put our heart completely into something when we care about something so much it will it's guaranteed success the verse says about King every action that he began in his a in the service of God in the in the temple Etc he did it with all his heart and he was he succeeded so he's telling us a secret and this is part of what looks like give it your whole heart sometimes giving your whole heart means you're fully attached to it incredible Joy sometimes it means I'm fully attached to what I'm saying and it's sincere it comes out with tears says the be of interesting says sometimes in life and we'll see specific uh situations where the territory of that type of acquisition involves yes involves difficulties he says enjoy the difficulties enjoy the challenge I remember I once sang in a Big Show in New York and it was I was so nervous I was so it was so nerve-wracking and only sing one song there it was so I felt so nervous the entire day but I kept saying Hashem thank you so much for this nervous feeling I I I'm so happy to be here I'm so happy to feel nervous so if you understand that there certain challenges and difficulties that we need to Traverse in order to get to certain amazing Acquisitions so there's a certain tanuk there there's a certain enjoyment or I I would say better than enjoyment attachment to experience of is certainly merciful full of Mercy when you know that the challenge you're experiencing is from Hashem from God like a woman who's about to give birth she knows that the pain she can think about watch my wife to this she thinks about the fact that the pain that she's experiencing is not a bad pain it's a pain pain that she needs to go to through in order for the baby to come it's hm's love for us the result is gives us that which our hearts desire My Heart saw much wisdom and understanding sh will make known to you the questions that come from your heart we'll have the answers we find that our sages say there are three things that are given that are that that one attains through difficulties in order to learn Torah properly in order to understand it properly you have to go through challenges you have to go through difficulties it's not easy to understand Hashem as well youy to understand the the knowledge of God so to speak living in Earth Isel it's not so simple we have to go through difficulties challenges Wars pressures Financial pressures pressures on our family getting to Al to the world to come requires traversing great challenges fulfilling the entire Torah these these three things is these are what we want these are at the core of who we are we want to live in Israel we want to acire the Torah we want to get to the to the to the world to come to that place of the Ultimate Experience of closeness to God brings here from the Grizz two different ideas the verse testifies that with you can get anything you can attain any matter says you will enjoy of an experience of Joy with God will give you all of your heart's desires if you live would to the point where you enjoy it you have a sense of unbounded Joy when you live a life of that kind of that kind of relationship with hem you have a guarantee you will for sure get whatever your heart desires he continues he says an amazing thing let's say a person has made money you did a certain amount of work the money is owed to you you know for sure the money is on the way you know you're happy about this so nevertheless you won't feel complete you won't have the full Joy until you have the money in your hand show me the money that's when you enjoy it you enjoy the completion of whatever project that you're supposed to get paid for when you have the money in your hand earlier says trust inem and do good dwell in the land and be a shepherd of Faith these are all the AP refers to different things all different levels of our faith in what is the greatest level that a person is requested to attain that we're we're to we're obligated to try to get to the sense and spoke about this Al of the sense that when I have talk I already have it it's already there whatever I be talking about it's already the money is already it feels like it's in my pocket already I don't have it yet but the sense of is that I that I feel like I already got the money that's what the verse means when it says you will enjoy have a sense of enjoyment with that it's possible to reach a level very high level of that just the moment that I think that I feel I know hasem is taking care of me I have the money already is the money is already in my pocket and there's a sense that he says then Hashem will give you all of your requests but there's a sense that I've already received my requests that's the highest level when you reach that level that's the level of I reach that level so it's guaranteed that all that I want all my heart's desires will be fulfilled just having that sense having that feeling of it's guaranteed thanks so much for listening we'll see you again next time