Bitachon 167 - The Sin of Hishtadlus

you're listening to the 167th edition of the We Talk podcast and we are learning together chapter 40 of we are learning this week praiseworthy is the man who makes hem into the one he trusts and he didn't turn towards false things to trust in didn't turn towards those things that could deceive a person into believing that they could be trusted the AL says he first starts in the P which we were speaking about last week which was he said that King David he sang a song in recognition for the Salvation that he experienced as a result of his and he said that many people will see the Salvation that I experienced and they will fear God if and they will place their faith in hem that was last week's P so connects that PK to this P that we're learning this week and he says that when King David sings and you imagine DAV puts out a new song who wouldn't come to hear it it would be something that that would go everywhere it would be in the top it would be the number one hit say so there are two things that people get when they hear D's new song first is that people start to have a sense of fear of awe of respect for God the second thing that's gained through hearing the song of right which is what we're studying together the words of tar King David song the second thing that's gained is the Trust In Hashem We Fear Hashem We Trust Hashem we know we can depend on him and that's a general thing that's a general principle that's something that anybody can hear the song and anybody can gain from and learn from but he says the says not only is this true of the Rin of the general populace but it's also true of the individual praiseworthy is the person is the man is the individual who he places his trust in God King David he trusted in hem in the context as the AL understands it so King David stood he stood in a place where King Saul was running after him and King Saul had gone to sleep King David had an opportunity to you know there's a p it says someone comes to kill you kill him first it's you're allowed to protect yourself knew that King sha was coming to try to kill him he's allowed to kill sh but he didn't do that why why didn't he do that he had he trusted in hem that no evil would befall him even though perhaps he had a right to kill King King he didn't turn towards the false claims who told him with Hess of heart if someone comes to kill you you should kill them right his advisor around him told him now's your kill you'll be saved you're allowed to he didn't turn to those who send a person in a false Direction King David didn't do that sha made that mistake sha had advisers who said to him that you need to kill D King David you need to kill young David at the time is not yet the king you need to kill kill him because he's going to usurp your throne these those people who gave this advice to King to sha King Saul it was because they had this negative predilection they told him it's it's appropriate for you to run after King David and kill him so that David doesn't come and usurp your throne and take away the kingdom of the Jewish people from schol and his descendants David they said to him King David was not it was not appropriate that he should be the next king he he right and Sh heard this negative advice and therefore ran after David to try to kill him and what's interesting is when we look at the story with a broader picture if you look at it in a broader way that marries Sha's daughter he had his wife was first and then mikal he didn't end up marrying me he was supposed to but he married mik the daughter of Shaul and his best friend was y son the son of sha so really their Destiny was intertwined and and Sha's kingship would have continued on through David see the incredible mistake sha didn't have the didn't have that level of Faith which did have King David said I know I could kill him I know that I could do away with him but I don't believe that God wants me to do that I don't believe that hasm wants me to have success in life through someone else's downfall I I don't buy it I believe and he had the the faith to hold on to and not listen to the negative negative advice which sh did listen to he had the the fortitude to hold on to his talking and so it's an incredible lesson for each individual each of us in our lives we think we know what's good for us we think we know who is the cause of negative things in our lives we want to get rid of those people we want to remove the problems but really our job is to refocus refocus who sees the bigger picture we don't see the bigger picture King sha sh didn't see the bigger picture that his kids would end up marrying do and and and there could have been a continuation and it's not a contradiction he didn't see that he didn't feel that he didn't recognize that instead he listened to the to the naysayers to the bad advisors but David was on a deeper level of B and therefore he was able to Traverse this difficult Road and get to the other side and be an example for us of pure faith of pure says the praiseworthy right that's our what is teaching us what is the objective here and I'm going to title this podcast and next week we're going to continue speaking about in the context of Ys but it's going to be entitled the sin ofas the mistake of doing efforts of too much efforts of efforts at all means that I place my trust inem and not all of the that we do and I know that it's standard fair and I hear from people who are reading books about am and but I know it's standard fair to talk about doing doing efforts putting in efforts or maximum efforts but the p is telling us is telling us that many times the efforts are a mistake we don't even know what's really good for us we don't really know what's going to succeed oh that's the thing that succeeds cuz that guy got rich through doing this that's called a and a of those are false things place your trust in a don't turn towards the people who are powerful and egotistical don't turn to them for help don't turn to people at all they human beings by definition go after false things they're turned towards false things we see superficially we don't know the inner mechanisms the inner workings There Are Spiritual reasons why somebody succeeds somebody else does the same exact thing it doesn't succeed here the says person goes after false ways for example magicians right there's people who do this even today in India there there are real There's real black magic but talking in our terms there's black magic in those who say that they have all of the secrets and the and the magic answers to success human beings don't trust in God that's just naturally we don't trust that's why we've been talking about this for 167 episodes and really we spoke about it many many more before a human being doesn't trust naturally in hasem it's it's a it's a continuous effort that needs to be put into it and so when we trust in human beings who trust in themselves or trust in their magic whether it's it's black magic or whether it's uh you know business Acumen that's the mistake says says beautifully what's a g a g is a man praise worthy is the man but the word g comes from the word gibor comes from the one who is mighty who is powerful but who are we talking about here we're talking about a powerful man who who overcomes his negative inclination the person we're talking about here who is successful in his b is somebody who strengthens his intellect over his natural desire that's why the PK says the mighty one the mighty man praiseworthy is the Mighty Man it requires an intense effort how do you do this says you decide in your mind who is that God is the one who I can depend upon God is the one who is my rock he is the one who protects me and takes care of me there's no one else that's going to help me no one else can save me I can't depend on anybody else and so he strengthens his mind his intellect to constantly attach himself to his King to God doesn't turn towards the false aspect again same idea doesn't turn to people who are full of themselves you go mytical have all they have all the answers they're so mighty that's who's going to help me I'm in trouble I'm going to turn towards human beings I got to turn towards I can't turn towards people for for a false sense of hope or a false sense of Salvation only God can save me only KES can help me and it's interesting because we're going to see a little bit you know naturally I would say look can send me people who can help me but on a deeper level I need to not be thinking that the human beings are what's going to save me really goes by the way I think about it it's so important that's the the that's the danger of hisas the danger of hisus is I put in my efforts especially that that language of I have to put in my maximum his I have to to put in my maximum efforts and then God will do the rest if I do the maximum I'm not leaving any room for God and I'm also going to trip and fall because I'm going to start to believe that it's me or that it's my trick or that it's whatever it's very important to have this understanding you don't put in maximum that's not the Torah away even the Bal which speaks about the the the house owners the people who are working people who fear God not maximum is minimum isless what is the minimum that I can get away with to open up a p for a to be manifest for God to be manifest in my life that's that's the kind of thinking we need to develop says like this I believe it's you lose your says the maspik you lose it it becomes shaky your faith in hasm your connection to God becomes shaky if you're constantly looking for another person to help you person who's his livelihood is dependent on Kings or somebody like them on on people who are wealthy in today's world in today's thinking it's very difficult to be complete in your faith in Hashem if you put in so if you have so many answers to how you're going to get your money that's why says very clearly praiseworthy is the man who makes hem his trust don't turn to human beings don't put in every don't look for for every backup plan at a backup plan for the backup plan that's not that's not the approach that we're after the says why did the Jewish people get out of Egypt why were we saved why were we redeemed the tells us it's because of our it's because of our faith in God I want to point out that a slave doesn't have very much hope doesn't have very much hope and he doesn't have very much to depend on he doesn't I'm saying he gets maybe a morsel of bread from his master but the the state of a slave the state of of Brokenness makes it more likely for us to be able to depend on Hashem that's a huge huge in our world in the Western World of trusting in ourselves of trusting in our efforts of trusting not people say it's is is hard which I could argue about that whether it's true but certainly opens up a much greater opportunity for us even if it is hard or because it's hard it's such a greater opportunity for us to work on our not a coincidence this is what gets us out of G Not only was it because of their B but it's because they didn't change their name and they didn't mix in they didn't get mixed up with the Egyptians think about it you know what's the what's the reason why the reform movement began the conservative movement began it's like if we mix with the Americans with the Europeans if we mixed into the culture if we assimilate into the culture so then they'll stop bothering us will we able to have a parnos able to have a livelihood able to live normally right there's a sense of I'm going to solve my problem by by assimilating but the Jewish people in Egypt didn't do that they didn't try to solve their problem by becoming Egyptians they didn't change their names l this is what it means they placed Hashem to be their trust they didn't turn towards the Egyptians they didn't try to be like them they didn't assimilate into the culture they didn't try to become rich like the consumer culture of America they didn't try to become atheists like the like the atheistic culture of Europe Etc like that's going to solve my problems if I don't believe in God I'll be my own man I'll take charge of my own destiny is about saying I want a to be in charge of my destiny and that's how we get out of Egypt that's how we get out of the darkness okay the sh there's two ways of having trust in God or or having trust generally I want to be saved there's two ways I can look at it I can look at it I want them to be destroyed I want my enemies to fall so that I am saved and so that the Jewish people are enemies there there's it becomes clear in the world that if anybody starts up with us they end up in a in a helicopter crash fall banging into a mountain smashed to Smither or the other thing is it's a when the enemies of the Jewish people when they fall away when they're destroyed it's a sanctification of God's name those who stand with Hashem those who strive to do God's will they win in the end it's sanctification of his name so there's two different way that I can look at it save me so that there's revenge or save me so that your name is Sanctified says the is teaching us that when I have my intent should be save me I have I have faith in you you're going to save me for your sake that might be talk is for for your purposes for the K the sanctification of your name that will come out and not so I can have some kind of sense of Revenge not for my own satisfaction but rather for the greater good for the good of your name my God that's the sh I just want to end off with the Malin which we're going to start off with next week because it's really the foundation of the second part of the explanations here in this in this PUK Mal says like this and this is again this is the idea of the sin of of the mistake the mistake of doing of doing too much effort the joy of a human being the the the awesome feeling of satisfaction comes when we make hem the one we trust says an even deeper level I can have it that will save me take care of me through natural means if I'm having that should bring me natural means to save me help me Etc I'm still not completely trusting in hem I'm not making it all the way God saying God okay this is what I'm doing please bring me salvation through my efforts I opened up uh uh a vessel for you to bring down the blessings into says the M that's not it that's not the ideal way because you're still mixing in other things besides for I'm trusting should save me through my business through my efforts really I depend on my business I don't want the money to come in a different way I want it to come through the way that I believe it should come that's not called I completely trust in the malim says there's a much higher level and I want to emphasize that this is something that we can all aspire to we all should know that it's something that's possible and that it's the ideal a person who doesn't do any efforts at all he makes hem is complete trust and I'll say by the way that sometimes I I could be on this level and sometimes I'm not sometimes I have to put in efforts because I'm just not on a level and sometimes the money just comes I didn't even ask for it I didn't even try to get the job and it just arrives some can send it in in in ways that just don't make sense I want you to choose how you're going to save me I want you to choose how you're going to send me my livelihood Hashem I don't want to tell you how to do it you know better than me the ideal is don't turn to Hashem and tell him how to do it all the natural ways that he can bring you your parasa your salvation Etc or through people run after falsehoods and and and what kinds of false methods and ways sh I want you to do it you to do however you want to do it I don't need to know I'm not I don't need to be privy to your exalted Majestic plans please AEM help me to have faith in you purely help me Hashem place my trust in you completely that you're going to Fig figure out how to bring me the answers to all of my prayers thanks so much for listening see you again next time