Bitachon 206 - Emunah vs. Bitachon

You're listening to the 206th edition of the Bakan podcast and we're now going to complete our study of this puk in par chapter 112 and we've been trying to understand what does it mean that if a person has the proper so there's no such thing as bad news in that person's life. We spoke about the different possibilities that either it means that the person always trusts and believes that everything that happens to them is from Hashem and therefore they're not knocked over by bad news. But the real pip is that the person who's on the level of the highest level of so he is absolutely sure that nothing bad happens to him. He doesn't nothing bad does happen to him. It's a promise. And uh there's just a few more small pieces here. So this might be a little shorter than usual, but I'd like to read it to you. The Ramban says in talking in the first chapter, he talks about the difference between a and a is someone who believes I believe things are going to be good. Amuna amuna means I I believe it is someone who's confident he's absolutely sure he's certain. So a person who's a m a person who believes so such a person can be afraid if a person is in a state of belief so then a person can be afraid that the sin can cause something bad to happen to him. But a person who is a someone who's confident, someone who absolute confidence in Hashem, so there's no fear that the sin is going to cause something bad to happen. It's very interesting. We hear a lot of talk about amuna. We hear a lot of about amuna. Is not the same thing says the rambatan means confidence. Absolute confidence. And when a person is in that state of confidence, nothing can knock him over. nothing bad can happen to him. So the state of is different than amuna brings out as king David says the person I think about the description here his heart is certain means it's the word can mean correct or can mean prepared and think about it both of those things are true when a person has full confidence So their heart is in the correct place. But a person also comes in prepared. When a person has he's prepared for life such a person who's prepared, he's confident. He's not afraid of any any negative news. So understands this to be talking about a promise. Another puzzlim chapter 56:5 it says I trusted in Hashem I wasn't afraid and and I believe we talked about this pretty sure that elikim here is the mida of Hashem's judgment person can be in a place where they don't deserve things or or it seems like Hashem is bringing out his judgment but he's not afraid David says and and David is the quintessential Baluva, right? He made a mistake with Bacha. He made other mistakes in his life. He wasn't the perfect person, but he still was always in a state of confidence with Hashem. He still was always sure. He still always felt completely that he could rely on Hashem. He wasn't afraid. So, it's interesting. I always think about that that we say every single day, three times a day. see them. We talk about the righteous. Those are the ones who it would seem have is the one that the righteous lean upon and rely or have full confidence. And I would say it's easier for a sadic to have full confidence because they know they're good with Hashem, so to speak. They know that their relationship with Hashem is complete. But the Rambal is telling us that you don't have to be a perfect saddic. You have to be a perfect bal in order to get that state to to be in that state of of not being afraid of anything. Says the radish in regards to what we said that from any negative reports the person is not afraid. It's the opposite of a wicked person. The wicked person always has fears, always afraid. The the sound of fears are always in his [Music] ears. Person might have his family members in a different place. He might be in a different country. Person might be American and have his kids learning in in Israel or vice versa. Right? But he's not afraid. is not fearful that there's going to be some negative reports, right? What's a it means news that's heard means I'm not speaking directly to them. I'm hearing about it. Another says is that if let's say a person knows that there are enemies coming, enemies are on the way. They're shooting missiles at us. They're uh they're riding on the campus where one of my kids is studying. So the enemies are coming not afraid because that person's heart's heart is set confident. He knows Hashem is going to take care of him. But he also does not trust in his wealth or in his great strength and power. Right? And let's let's be clear here. This is not saying that you can't have power and you can't have wealth. It's saying that don't just trust in those things. Right? It's easy a person has money to trust in the money. I'm going to be okay. Everything's going to be fine. It's easy for a person who has a powerful army to trust in the army. Don't trust in the many people who love you and and you have relatives, people who take care of you, people who are your friends. Says the is saying that teaches us that what did he do? He trusted only in Hashem. Hashem was the only one. He didn't depend on anything else. And he had everything else. He had wealth. He had he had great armies. He had friends. He had people who loved him. He didn't trust in any of that. He trusted only in Hashem. And that's why he wasn't afraid. Says the says that you could hear bad news. We could hear things. There's rumors spreading about your nation or about your country. There could be things going on in your vicinity that the chances are it's quite likely that it's going to affect you. And still, even though you could be afraid and you have every reason to be afraid, don't be afraid. Why? Place your trust in Hashem. Your heart should be your heart should be ready. ready for every eventuality with the power of says when there's bad news in the world, right? Bad news in the world, bad things going on, don't be afraid. person's should help him to strengthen his feelings inside of himself that that negative thing that's going on in the world is not going to touch me. It's not going to touch me. And it's and it's a little challenging because we're used to reading the news and we're used to here in Israel, we hear a siren, we have to run to the to the mad to the safe room. And so there's, you know, the actions that we do affect our insides when you're running to the mad. So it's easy to feel like to feel afraid. And we dispel that. We work on that. We we say to we say some psalms. We remind ourselves that Hashem is the one who's going to protect us. And he does. But that report, that news, that sound in the world, it can easily throw us off. So instead is saying strengthen your come back to remind yourself Hashem is with you and that bad thing is not going to touch you. Very interesting here. He brings the last thing we're going to see here today together. Brings from the husb he tells us something in his house about this great sadic. Do you think says the kasam cipher that this great sadic this great sage maybe died young you think that he didn't complete his time in this world do you think that he died because of a sin that he did you should know that that's not the case about this particular he fulfilled to the tea to the highest extent our he wasn't afraid of bad news he wasn't afraid of what's going on around him he was completely What's the story? It was in the year 1774 and there was a great fire in this city called Papadam. And the houses in his vicinity in the vicinity of his own home of his Adler they were burned. All the homes around his home he did not get up from learning. Seems he had a base in his own house. He continued to study. He continued to learn. He was in his talis in his twillin and he continued praying. He didn't allow his mind to become confused. The hand of did not come close to his house. didn't touch the fire did not touch into his borders into his section. So he had a tremendous and says you have to you have to understand that because he was such a great sadic certainly when he passed away it wasn't because of any sin because he was completely connected to he was completely protected by hashem and so we all have this opportunity to do the same thing we can look at and understand that pakan affords us an incredible opportunity an incredible path path in life. I don't have to be afraid. And I will say that from experience, sometimes there are things that naturally we would be afraid of. And sometimes it seems like in this moment, I don't know how I'm going to be saved. I don't know how I'm going to get the money that I need. I don't know how I'm going to succeed. I don't know how I'm going to get out of this predicament, whatever it might be. I don't know how that shik is going to come. But see the thing is that guides us has a plan for us. Brings us along this path. Here we are learning together talking about since 2019. That's when it started. at the beginning of 2019 started this excuse me I started this podcast and we've been working on this together for over six years and we've learned we've learned madre we've learned and we've been learning this withim from and as we go through this and as we get a new dimension a deeper dimension another dimension where we review something that we already know and we reaffirm that which we know and try to incorporate it all the more. We're going on this path. Hashem is guiding us. You know, so many times I'll get a little email or a or a little comment on the on the video. Somebody heard something there that that resonated for them that they needed to hear that day. And that's giving us a little kiss. That's saying, "I know you're looking for a relationship with me. I know you're trying to work on I know that we're in this together. I want you to know I'm with you. I'm next to you. We're studying this together and I'm going to show you. There's guideposts that I'm going to show you along the way. You just have to keep your eyes open for them. So, that's what we have for today. Thank you so much for listening. See you again next time.