Bitachon 219 - Hope to Hashem Again

You're listening to the 219th edition of the podcast. We are studying together some the list of ribbund and there's one thought on the last that we studied together which just to wrap up just a small thought there on our in those who trust ine are compared to the mountain of Zion to the says this characteristic of faith in Hashem is great. Let's say a person doesn't have anything to protect him. He doesn't have any good deeds. He's notic a righteous individual perhaps just gone in the way of his sahara. But he has one thing. He has he has that faith in Hashem. So Hashem won't leave him. Hashem will be with that person since he plac and it's actually quite touching the comparison to to the mountain of Zion. If you look at if you go to to visit there so it's built up again but still we don't have the bish there and still who are the people walking on Harabas it's the ishim the Arabs so it's shamim it's destroyed is destroyed harabas is run over by by evildoers so in the same way a person can think to himself look I'm run over by my evil inclination myahar has got I've done wrong. But he says that just like yes, it's in a state of destruction and yes, we don't have we don't have a mikdash there. But the divine presence never left the western wall of the mikdash, which by the way is not what we call the western wall. Western wall that we speak about is actually the western wall of Harabas of the mountain of the foundation of the mountain. There is a spot on Harabas where according to the archaeologists there is still a remnant of the original western wall of the mikdash of the actual basikdash and that western wall the shina still rests upon that western wall of the ba mikdash even though that wall we don't naturally know exactly where it is you can't really see it it's hidden somewhere on Arabias and the Ishmaam are walking there and it's an embarrassment but still the is still right there on that wall. The holiness is still upon it. Hashem is looking at that wall and waiting for the moment that's going to that's going to happen that's going to come when that wall will be rebuilt. So to we, we all have inside of ourselves, you might not even see it. We might have done things that are wrong. We might have trampled on, heaven forbid, what we know is right. But still, there's always that wall. It's hidden, that western wall of ours. And when we have our faith, we place our in Hashem. So, Hashem makes sure that just like the western wall of the Ba Mikdash never gets destroyed and his divine presence is still there. So, too we when we place our trust in Hashem, we don't get trampled. We don't get we we don't get we don't our legs don't falter. That's what it means in our that those who trust in hem a person who only has this merit the only thing that they have really is that they trust in hem they don't have anything else they are like the mountain of Zion which as forlorn as it is as sad as it is that is trampled by the nations of the world still is there. His divine presence is still there on the mountain. Now, we're gonna start a new puzz and we're gonna get some ways into it. There's a lot on this. And uh I hope to Hashem the hope of my soul and to his word and and for his word I was hoping you know it's two different words. which is a language of which means a straight line. We hope straight to we've spoken about this before here also. So I hope I hope I have a desire for his word. So he brings here from the magician bracious and he brings also it's a long explanation there's really a lot over here from the uh let's see it together med says like this says embracious the rider fell back speaking he's saying a prophecy about what's going to be in the future he's speaking about shimshore shiman Samson was a mighty warrior. He's a powerful person through his commitment to to his Nazirus and and it says about him that he falls and he fell. Ni describes the fall of Shimshu how he fought against the saw that in the future there's going to be this great individual who indeed served the Jewish people as a judge for 20 years and he fought against the pal theim the Philistines not the Palestinians and it was all in the area of Gaza actually and he's buried right near here in Bamesh not far away from us been to his grave So Jacobu sees in the future that Shimshon is going to to live and he thought that he's going to be the Msiah, the one who's going to save and bring about a new reality. We'll have to see what this means exactly. But he thought he saw that indeed Shimon is going to be there. He's going to accomplish certain things, but he's going to die in the middle. He's not going to complete his task. So he thought that hope is gone. That with the death of Shimon comes the death of hope. So he said, "No, I realize." And by the way, not I don't think I'm going to get into this, but there's a concept of Mashia and Yoseph dying that the very person who's supposed to bring about his salvation for Am Israel, he dies right before the real full salvation comes. Mashiah Ben arrives after that immediately. But with that with that death of a Msiah comes with the death of hope the person who we hope to to save us. So it comes a loss of hope and Jacob therefore says in the next the next words in the in in the next when he sees the fall of the of the salvation he says I hope to you Hashem for your salvation and I would say that this is a really important point because sometimes we we think oh maybe even in a positive way we think this is where the salvation is going to come from. We have a financial issue. We have a physical uh health issue. We have an issue around our relationships with our family, with our kids, with our parents, whatever it is. And there's a falling out, but there's a it seems like there's this might be where the solution is going to lie. This is where the salvation is going to come from, but then the salvation that person or that thing or whatever it is falls away. And then we lose hope. We could lose hope. And and it's there that we say as we're going to see there's a hoping and a deeper hoping. There's another hoping. We say it also which of course needs explanation. Hope to Hashem strengthen your heart and hope to Hashem. Which means to say there's times where we have hope, we lose hope. We have to strengthen our hope. But how do we do that? If I had hope and I lost hope, so how do I get hope back again? It's much harder after I had hope and I thought it's going to work out and it didn't work out. It's much harder to have hope again and to think that the salvation will come anyway. So let's see what the says everything depends on hope on this hope that we're talking about in our when a person has difficulties and pain they have to hold on to hope when a person is trying we'll see exactly what this means from the when a person's involved let's say in kdesm and sanctify find God's name. It requires hoping the merit of our forefathers. You want to attach yourself to the merit of the great ones who came before us to the sadik of previous generations to that requires requires hoping. You want to get to the world to come says talking about you want to get there. You want to merit to see mdash. We want to live in our Isel. As we're preparing for Msiah to arrive, it requires K. It requires hope. There's two more here, which for some reason isn't in the original list, but as it explains it, it's there. You want to have grace from Hashem. You want to be forgiven for something which you don't really deserve to be forgiven. That's only with hoping and forgiveness. Even if let's say we deserve or we we're trying to deserve forgiveness. Let's say I've done chuva. I did something wrong and I want Hashem to forgive me or I'm changing my ways and I want Hashem to forgive me. Who says that I deserve forgiveness? The the path in to all of these cases which is all really about salvation. It's all really about coming back into a relationship with Hashem. It's all really about get, you know, looking for a good life and for success in life. The way that it comes is only through ku, through hoping, through wanting, through looking for a relationship with Hashem. And the message goes through each of these and brings the first one on the list. There are six items. The first one is that the pain and difficulties the way perhaps out of them or the way to the other side of them I would say is through hoping as the says the Hashem did the path that we're on that we're walking through the fire so to speak. We hope to you, Hashem, to get to the other side, to get to the place of salvation. That's a reference to the isurin because we're talking about mishb. We said that the way toe sanctifying God's name is through is through kuima, which is the same puk. The same P it says for your name in that speaking about how do we get to Hashem's name? How do we get right because Hashem's name really means that we see that God is here right? We speak about the fact that the nations of the world will see that Hashem's name is called upon us which really means to say that they see through us. We they see that we are a conduit for Hashem's revelation in this world. They see through our through our goodness, through the fact that we are keeping the Tyra and we are a manifestation of Hashem in the world. So it comes out how do we get there? How do we serve as a conduit for Hashem's light in the world? How do we make a kishem? Is through ko is through hoping. I I'm trying to do your will, Hashem. I'm trying to stay connected to you, Hashem. I'm trying to have in you. for your remembrance. The also says in it's a reference to the right as we're going to see sometimes we don't deserve to attach ourselves to the merit of the forefathers. Hey was I don't know if I'm such a big was he didn't give into his natural inclinations. I'm not sure that I'm really so good about that was he was completely balanced in all of his ways. I'm not very balanced. So, how can I attach myself to this? There's so much that we get because of them. We want a salvation personally and nationally. But it's from them. And we're not like them. How do we get there? Through hoping through also says the words the desire of the soul. That's a reference to a person's needs or or desires being fulfilled. What's ultimately what's our ultimate desire? What are we really after in this world? We're really after a relationship with Hashem. All the things that we're trying to get is just so that we can have peace. But you know, that's what we're looking for. Peace, serenity, a sense of calm. And that's what our relationship with Hashem is meant to look like. And that's what is the world to come where we receive the rewards for what we've done in this world for the good that we've done in this world. But that comes about through it the desire of the soul. We want grace which we don't talk about very much I think generally speaking but there is a concept of we talk about it inem graces us gives us a free gift that's what is you know when uh someone's pardoned the word in Hebrew is to be pardoned that means you you did something wrong but you get pardoned anyway we talk Hashem is someone who pardons people, which is interesting. We'll talk about more as we head into but but Hashem, Hashem forgives us even though we don't deserve it. That's so how do you get to how do you get to to I don't like to use the word grace but that's really what it means. How do we get to a place where we get forgiveness even though we don't deserve it? through desire, through wanting, through wanting to have a relationship with Hashem. Says also in Hashem, pardon us because we wanted because we we desired you. We desired to have a relationship with you and forgiveness. And again, it's funny. It's interesting the order here because we talked first about pardon which means I did something wrong. I didn't deserve it but you forgave me anyway. And then there's which is where I I did I think I think that's what it means. So we're talking about our discussing the right before talks about that gives us he forgives us. How do we get there? How do we get to Hashem's forgiveness? How do we how do we show perhaps that we have this regret? Or how do we channel our regret into back into a relationship with Hashem is through this ku through our wanting through our is through our desire our turning back straight back to God a straight line back to Hashem. He says like this. He says the six the list here of six things are really the reason the six reasons why a person will give up hope from being saved. The first is that it feels like there's just too much happening. I'm never going to get out of this. The the difficulties are too big, too great. So corresponding to that we spoke about the fact that you want to get to the other side of your difficulties that is done through ku through hoping this means to say even if a person is really thrust through his his difficulties and challenges nevertheless a person needs to hope to Hashem and believe in Hashem and have faith that it's going to be removed from him. The second thing that we listed, let's say the thing that you want is hard to find. There a person is sick and they need a very unconventional type of cure or something which is not around. It's hard to get. It's very expensive. He doesn't have the money. or there's a fruit. That's what he says. A fruit, maybe some kind of herbal cure. So the person person gives up, feels like he's not going to get saved. Maybe so. So you need to have this aspect, the second aspect which it says, sanctification of Hashem's name in hoping, right? Right? When there's a kishem, it means that you need some kind of miracle, right? Where is hashem? Where's his name sanctified when you see that he's there, right? So, you need a miracle. How are you going to get that money together? It's impossible. So, like like the the great s the great sadikim the in the Tanakh thrown into the lion's den, thrown into the fire. They needed an a great miracle to save them. Nevertheless, okay, sometimes we say, you know, you can't depend on a miracle. But if you have no choice, a person who doesn't know how the salvation is going to come, they need to depend on Hashem. And they and they can turn to Hashem and ask for a miracle. Certainly true within a sickness. Hashem does miracles. There are things that are medically unexplained that happen. Right? Sometimes a person you expect, you want someone to take care of you and help you, but you realize that that person forgot about you. So how am I going to be saved? Expecting a certain person maybe to act as your to act as as the agent of Hashem is corresponding to that. It mentions the concept of the merit of the forefathers. Even if a person sees that the merit of his forefathers has not stood up for him, don't think that Hashem has forgotten you and and left you. Maybe there's just some reason that it hasn't happened yet. Maybe he can grab onto this by hoping to Hashem and in that way it will purify him and it'll have the merits and Hashem will have compassion on him and save him. valid. The fourth one is where something is very the the value of the thing is very expensive. Let's say the person needed in order to be saved, he needed a $1,000 gem. He doesn't even have one penny to get that thing. corresponding to that it speaks about the aspect of the desire for the world to come which means the concept of the the days of Mashiach which is when Msiah comes the Messiah arrives so everything is going to be great perfect awesome all of our needs will be met without any effort so that's the kind of thinking I need in order to save me here in this moment because I don't have anything. I don't have any way that I can get that thing that I need. And in all of this, if I if I want to get to that place that I want to have my own personal messiah arrive, so I need to hope to Hashem. We see that Hashem indeed does save us even when we've done wrong, even when we don't deserve it. Hey, the fifth aspect is let's say the person that you need help from. He's very hard-hearted. Not the kind of person who's going to actually help you corresponding to this. So we speak about the aspect of to be misan means to beg to plead to ask for grace for ask for something undeserved. Hashem does not find disgusting does not deny those who truly truly hope to him. Shishi the sixth aspect and here we're going to end. Let's say you need help from somebody but you've done so many wrong things to that person. Your chances of that guy helping you are really zero. You ripped him off. You did everything bad to him. Every single thing that Yeah. But you need this guy. He's the only guy that's going to help you. How can you get help from him? If we think about our relationship with Hashem, so it's pretty clear, we can know that we haven't done all that we could in in our relationship with Hashem. Just like imagining another another person we needed a favor from. But the the forgiveness for what we've done wrong is accessible with Hashem through hope. Through hope. Hashem, I hope that you'll forgive me. I hope that you'll save me despite all that I've done wrong in my relationship with you. I still have hope. And that is the power of bet. Thank you so so much for listening. See you again next week.