Bitachon 190 - Closeness to Hashem is Good

you're listening to the 190th edition of the podcast we're at the end of chapter 73 of the says tells us this is tells us commonly attributed [Music] toas was the collator of tum many of were written by him but this one is written by OA and he said as for me closeness to Hashem that is good and I'm going to give you a little bit of the context here on the P so we can understand it but let's read the P together first closeness to hem is good for me I placed my trust I placed has my God to be the one upon whom I Rely in order to speak over all of your all of your works so it's which as explain means all the malim all the angels all of the messengers that you send to help me I speak about that this is one of the important themes of and we speak about the times that I trusted in Hashem and it worked I trusted in Hashem and Hashem came through for me such an important idea the PK speaks about before we get into the PK I'd like to read also a few back the context of this mmore this is 28 PIM in to the mmore it's the very end of the mmore and as I'm for him explain at the beginning of the mismar the entire chapter is speaking about the contrast between the righteous and the wicked and how it seems as you go through life that those who are wicked those who grab onto everything they can in order to succeed in life go to any lengths it seems like they succeed they build up nuclear arsenals they build up rings of fire around our country it looks like they're winning it looks like they can cause us damage and the righteous individual looks on and he Ponders and he says how is it that those who are doing wrong seem to be able to succeed that way and at the very end of this chapter so he says this is back which means that although I see how they all succeed although I see how they they all seem to have ephemeral success nevertheless which we'll see they can mean different things but in the most simple understanding of it I I am hoping to Hashem I see that in the in the difficulties and the challenges that I go through I'm strengthened The Rock has is my rock and my heart turns to him my portion is in Hashem the P before our says those who are far away from you those who are wicked they'll be lost there'll be Destruction for all those who turn away from you but I am close to you Hashem I always turn to you I always place my trust in you I place my trust in you the call and I speak over all of your works all of your Messengers all the times that you saved me all the times that you took care of me those are theim now let's see some of the here that he brings in this beautiful he brings he says like this what does he mean and as for me because of the fact that I have a closeness to I have a connection to hem I'm always placing my trust inm I will Merit the hidden good the good that's hidden away it's going to come in the end the good that's hidden away for the righteous for those who fear I placed my trust in so ultimately I'll be able to speak out I'll be able to tell over all of the Angels who came to my Aid all of theim all of The Messengers you sent I'm going to talk about all the things that happen in my life that I recognize and I see and I Ponder and I internalize it's from you the good Messengers and the not such good Messengers and I recognize that everything theur the troubles the tribulations that I've gone through and the good times it's all from you the idea of which is an interesting word because it could also if you read it a little differently as I said before mean your works but it's which means your Messengers your angels he brings here from on the bottom when a person is wise when a person recognizes person looks into pond they can recognize the messengers of Hashem the work of and I can remind myself I can tell my own heart hey this is what Hashem did for me I didn't know how I was going to finish the month and Hashem sent this salvation I didn't know how I was going to accomplish a certain accomplishment and hasem sent me this salvation and I didn't know how I was going to get married and Hashem sent me the right girl and I didn't know this and I didn't know that review remind contemplate through this contemplation and you you start to understand Hashem as it were start to see that God is thinking about you that God is involved in your life but where the never callam says this is why we were created this is what we're here for to ponder this he brings here from the B he tells us that there was a great Sage we know about 2,000 years ago right after the destruction of the B during the destruction right after re aka the famous theal reab AKA had a different way of seeing things he understood that when a person endures pain when he endures trials and tribulations it's to clean him off of his sins I would say it slightly differently it's to clean him off of his ego it burns off our ego when we go through challenging times he valued the opportunity of difficulties to clean off his sins they said to him you taught us our teacher there's no such thing as a person who lives in the world and doesn't sin and he saw that since that's the case so there's a tremendous advantage to going through challenges and difficulties he said that difficulties are very they're very beloved they're very powerful they're very good for a person even in a place of a person needs to have challenges interesting listen to this say there are three gifts that gave to all three of these incredible gifts are required fired through challenges and difficulties so that means if you want the real gifts in life you got to pay the price and what are those three gifts my friends Tyra the first one is Tyra you want to learn Tyra want to stand Tyra you have to crack your head on it preparation for this year you know it takes me a lot of time I learn this I don't understand it I look at the Pim try to see it inside inside of the context of theim try to understand what's being said here it takes effort it's difficult is challenging sometimes I want to quit second item that's ni Isel yeah to come to Israel it's not P it's not so simple it's not so simple to live here have been to live here since 2000 coming up on 25 years quarter of a century in Earth Isel but it's not always easy it's not always easy there's a challenging it's a challenging thing and the world to come which is what we're here for in this world you want to get to you want to get to that place where we enjoy the the shine of God's countenance which by the way you could see a little bit behind me the son of Earth Israel carrying the shine of hashem's countenance into the film if you want to get there to you got to go through challenges and difficulties you have to you have to break your back it's not so easy to learn it's not so easy to live inel it's not so easy to acquire the world to come says the sa this would seem to me to the understanding of and as for I as for me Clos to God is good King David quotesa and says the before T before my physical my physicality was finished color can mean that I had a absolute complete desire a finishing desire for you it could also mean my physical aspect my heart my emotions I was finished I was finished I got to the end of my rope I soon shall you B love King David had tremendous difficulties in his life he had successes had spiritual successes had successes in battle but he had tremendous challenges sh chasing after him his own son AB Shalom chasing after him mistakes he made with b and from his bones to his flesh everything was finished he felt finished his heart his emotions were finished his heart melted inside of him from the challenges but he didn't let his emotions and his physical body being finished he didn't allow that to take away his faith in Hashem the rock of his heart his portion was Hashem forever God is the one who's meeting out judgment upon me yes it's true the challenges are because of my sins and I deserve it but it's from Hashem he is my portion he's my Destiny because I recognize that this is how my sins are erased this is how my sins are burned off this is how my ego is burned off he's my rock he is my salvation very powerful words he brings here from the and as for me closeness to hm is good perish even though hasem comes to me with the attribute of divine Justice I accept my challenges and I accept that which is occurring to me I receive it and I know that it's for good and I place my trust inem and I and I'm absolutely confident in hem that in the end it's going to be good the troubles I'm going through are finite it will be good in the end the that what it means is that all of those who hasem commands to fulfill his to fulfill hisus to fulfill his will all of the angels that God sends they're all there to deal with the righteous to help out the righteous ultimately it's going to be good or as I saw in one of the on theim it's an opportunity to speak about the challenges I've gone through and the successes that I've had and the challenges that I've gone gone through and the ultimately good results that came out even though it seemed impossible it seemed difficult it seemed it seemed like how can I manage how can I get through this and I don't just talk about it in my own heart I don't just speak about it with myself but I discuss it with those around me my kids should be hearing a message constantly of B look it works B works I trusted in Hashem he brings her something amazing on the bottom unbelievable thing writes many people lost their faith the time of the Holocaust and we can't judge them of course they saw how millions of Jews were slaughtered terrible deaths nobody to have any kind of compassion upon them call but he says says that it's possible to see the same thing to see the terrible terrible judgments upon am Israel and not be adversely affected not be destroyed by it just reading now just finished the book Emanuel Feldman wrote about The Six Day War and the sense of impending doom only 20 some odd years right after the Holocaust the world was ready to let the Arabs destroy Army Israel that time 2 and a half million were living here in Israel now 7.7 million in Israel the world would just stand by there was a sense of for boing impending disaster and miraculously Hashem stood up for Amel inel and saved us protected us put the right ideas into our military minds but we can see the same challenges and difficulties and and run away or we can look at it and understand somehow we don't understand but somehow it it can spur me to make myself better to try to be a better person I can look at the same on the same Challenge and say the difficulties I'm facing somehow I know Hashem it's from Hashem I just want to be close to Hashem he brings here from M be Weiss mondel that when he was in the Train on the way to the to the gas Chambers he jumped out of the train and as he jumps out of the train he tumbles to life T off to be able to live this P came into his head I want to come back he brings the malum here but he brings only half of it and I want to read the whole thing the malum says he talks about the contrast this is our last Point here he talks about the contrast between the Wicked the Wicked Will be destroyed all those who turn away from you hasem this is how quoting finishes off the The Wicked are destroyed for two reasons they'll naturally be lost spiritually because they're they're distant from that's what it means in the those who are distant will be lost because by definition We Exist we continue to exist because Hashem is the one giving us existence if a person is distant from he has no reality has no second point is that they'll be lost out of will show person doesn't do what's right ultimately they lose out in the end they're lost they'll be punished it will be clear that because of his sins he's destroyed but as for me I have continued existence because of myself because of my attitude because of my closeness to by being close to by seeking out closeness to God everything is going to be good I'm G to have incredible Joy I'm G to have incredible good I know that hasem is giving me divine provid I know that he's protecting me I trust in him the S I'm sorry I'll talk about what am I going to talk about I'm going to talk about all of the Angels but he understands that the angels that we're speaking about here are the fact that I am Angelic I am a person who seeks God's Will and that's where I become more Godly as I seek more and more to become like God to know what God expects for me what God considers to be good thank you so much for listening we'll see you again next time