Bitachon 222 - Hashem Redeems Israel

You're listening to the 22nd edition of the podcast. We continue into Psalms chapter 130:7. Let the people of Israel hope to Hashem. Hashem does kindness. Kindness is with him. And there is much puce with him. The word produce means redemption or to be redeemed. And redemption means where you take something that has a certain usually a certain holiness and transfer the holiness onto something else. Or it could also mean that you have a person who is incarcerated, he's in jail or he's captive and you're p him you you release him from jail in exchange for something else. And we're going to see that what it's talking about is the fact that we are human beings and we make mistakes and we have sins and we're enslaved to them. We're captive to our sahara and yet Hashem forgives us and he does kindness with us. He redeems us from our sins which by the way is the ultimate if we want to talk about hope in if you want to know if you can have hope. So, one of the things that blocks us is our sense of unworthiness. We feel like we don't deserve Hashem's help. Maybe we haven't done what's right or maybe we haven't or we've done what's wrong. We feel disconnected from Hashem and we think, "Oh, Hashem can't help me." But Hashem redeems us. Sometimes he redeems us through and through difficulties. And sometimes there's something called, which is grace. Let's see the redu says you people of Israel must hope to God. It's a it's a command. Omar King David is saying you're stuck in America. You're stuck in Europe. We're stuck under the the heavy burden of our sins. Hope to Hashem that he's going to redeem you from your exile. Hashem does kindness. He has the kindness with him. You want to know where the place of kindness is? It's with Hashem with all of his creations. Hashem will do kindness with you because he is the one who has so much redemption in his in his vicinity. How many times has hashem saved us? How many times has Hashem redeemed us? How many times was AmIrael in danger nearing extinction amdash is destroyed? Han Harasha trying to destroy AmI Israel. Inquisitions, crusades, holocausts. How many times has it seemed like Am Israel's finished and Hashem redeemed us and he brought us to the next stage. Hashem has no lack of ability to redeem us to take us out of this situation that we're in today. So much anti-semitism war in Israel against the Iranians and their proxies. Hashem can redeem us in a moment like in a flash just as he's done so many times in the past. says, "Hope to Hashem, oh people of Israel, hope to him at all times." Because so much redemption is with him. What does it mean? There are times of redemption. There's times that are more misugul that are more it's it's a time there there are times that Hashem created embedded within creation from the first day of creation. These are times of salvation. 1948 was such a time. 1967 was such a time. Today perhaps we could say is such a time a time of redemption embedded into time but not just in all of these distant times from each other. says, "Every day is a day of redemption. It's not just, oh, here and there there's times of redemption." No, every day has the potential for redemption. Hope to Hashem. The redemption is going to come. The salvation is going to come. Things are going to change. It's going to be better. It could be any moment. Believe it. the concept of requires us to trust in Hashem's kindness because Hashem is so much kindness and to depend on his right is compassion is kindness. We spoke about this in the para podcast. You know, we can have it's not the same thing. It's not the same idea, right? Compassion is somebody who's often a poor person, someone who can't fend for themselves. We have compassion on them is even for someone who perhaps could take care of themselves, but we want to do kindness for them also. So no matter what, whether I'm needing or deserving compassion or whether I don't deserve it or I don't need it, I still want Hashem's kindness. Person, a person should strengthen himself in the me of Hashem, which means to say, I think if you want compassion and you want kindness from Hashem, so we got to behave that way with others. Strengthen yourself in that mid the thing that you want for yourself. It's a famous thing. You want people to be kind to you, be kind to them. You want friends, be a friend. But that's a it's called mid. It's measure for measure. It's a natural way that Hashem created the world. You want Hashem's kindness. You want Hashem's compassion. Show kindness. Show compassion. Strengthen yourself with that mida of Hashem. And then you merit to have that come through you. And then you can trust in Hashem. Absolutely. If a person is one who does kindness, I can be sure that Hashem is going to do me kindness. It's a spiritual rule. Even if a person has many sins, he feels like his s sins are too great to bear too much. I have too I've I'm too distant from him. Don't don't give up. Hope to Hashem. Hope that Hashem will give you and he'll he'll have compassion on you. Here's what we get to is explaining says hope to people of Israel even when there's so many sins it seems like Israel is so far away we've done so much wrong don't give up he can redeem us from our sins says right after that has so much hope we have so much potential We can know that Hashem will save us from our sins. He will redeem us from our sins. And I say this again because I it's hard not to think about it, but sometimes it comes, how do we get redeemed, right? When you redeem someone captives, you got to pay. When you redeem something from its kaduca, you take off the holiness, you got to pay the the the money becomes holy that you pay for it. Redemption always implies that there's some payment for it. And so we can look at our our pain in our situation today, let's say, and we can say, "Oh my, what what did we do to deserve this difficulty? This pain is being accused of genocide, ridiculous things. The bin are being made into criminals, thrown in jail. What do we do to deserve this thing?" But understand that Israel as a whole individuals who are expected to be on a higher level. We've done wrong. We do wrong. We're not perfect. We make mistakes. We're sometimes distanced from Hashem. And so, Hashem is py. He redeems us from our sins, from our mistakes. And sometimes there's a payment for it. And we got to pay that. We got to be aware of it and we have to look at it properly. We have to have the proper perspective on it. We have to know that the things that are going on are for our benefit. The negative situations we find ourselves in are for our benefit. They do make us greater. They do cleanse us of what we've done wrong. The distance that we have from Hashem, they bring us closer to Hashem. They clean off our ego, our hubris, our brings the people of Israel, hope to Hashem. What does it mean again? hope to Hashem if your sin is great for his for for kindness is with him. So he doesn't say explicitly what I was saying, but it seems to be implied that if there's so much oppression am Israel is being oppressed. We're being accused of things we haven't done. We're being accused of being bad guys. The nations are pressuring Ami Israel by saying we're going to recognize the Palestinian state. There's so much it's in this case an emotional and physical danger. understand that that pain, that emotional pain, that physical pain is a pigion. It's a redemption for us. It raises us up. It lifts us up. We become more connected to each other. And Hashem also is going to redeem us from the pain. The pain itself serves as a redemption and will be redeemed from the the the pain says this you now you hope to Hashem and expect his salvation. We have to it's it's very interesting. We have to expect it. We have to believe that it's coming. We're waiting for like someone who's at the bus stop waiting for the bus looking up on In Israel, we have these uh these boards that have the times when the when the bus is going to come. So, you're looking and you're waiting and maybe the bus will come sooner. Maybe the bus will come. When is it coming? The salvation is on its way. We know it. We're looking. We're looking up. When you are expecting it, when you're expecting the salvation, you are preparing yourself to be from amongst those who are saved. Kindness is with him with the says even if you might not be completely fitting for this. The kindness is with him. The kindness of Hashem is that which purifies you, brings about your merit to be able to deserve it. Right? The word is an interesting word. Is a merit. That's what we talk about. You do a you give it's a merit. They say should merit to do to fulfill the mitzvah the commandments. When you give you are purifying yourself. It's not so easy to give. I earn this money. I'm going to give it to somebody else. I purify myself. Hashem's kindness purifies us. If we're not properly loving each other, will give us an opportunity sometimes of challenge in order that we come back into love with each other, back into a relationship with each other. Interesting. And he says it a little bit differently. He says if you don't have the merits, Hashem will do it out of kindness. Right? So first is I haven't necessarily done enough to be in a relationship with Hashem. That's one possible problem. Why I don't deserve to be saved or I don't deserve Hashem's help. Hashem will do even though you haven't done enough good. And what about if I've done wrong? That's the second stage. Even if I've done sins, Hashem can save me from my sins themselves. Hashem can take away the mistakes that I've made. And it's not to say that we don't have responsibility. We do. It's better that we do chuva, right? We don't have to have issurin. We don't have to have difficulties. We could acknowledge from our own accord, which is difficult also. That's also user to face the mistakes that I've made and say I've made these mistakes and I don't want them anymore says the sworno. What does it mean that there's so much redemption that Hashem has for us? If you're facing a situation where in a natural way it's impossible for you to get up again, it doesn't seem like there'll ever be. There's a holocaust. 6 and a4 million Jews are killed. How will this people ever rise up from the ashes? It's not going to be too much longer till the Jewish people have their own country. Just a few years later, they get up from the ashes. They get up from the dust. Hashem has so many ways of saving us, of lifting us up. And in the past, the Inquisition may have run us out of Spain and Portugal and other places like that. And we went to the next place and we grew there. We ran away from our troubles. And Hashem made us great. He was ped us. He redeemed us there. brings here from the safe is what is the what is the sweet singer of Israel? What does he mean when he says oh people of Israel hope to hem means to say hope to don't hope to Hashem that Hashem is going to give you something that you deserve. Sometimes a person deserves to have kindness from Hashem. Sometimes a person is done right and the person is a they're righteous and they deserve to be helped. But don't don't take it that way. Don't receive Hashem's goodness because you deserve it. It's better to receive it because of Hashem's kindness. There is no other one in existence. There's nobody that Hashem has created. Of all of the creations, of all the creatures in creation, the malum, the angels, the heavenly bodies, the celestial fe spheres, the animals, the people, there's nobody like him that can do kindness like he does kindness. He's the only source of all goodness and all kindnesses. That's what it means. Kindness is with him. Kindness is with Hashem. It means to say that he's the only one with whom kindness exists. Anyone else who has kindness or does kindness is not in his league as it were that's why you should pray to him and to no other. So here he brings more from the which we're going to read together. says, "See over there, see there at length. We'll give you a little piece of what he speaks about at length is as follows." All types of kindnesses come from Hashem. No other being can do the absolute type of kindness that Hashem does. You want to know who is the perfect the perfect one who does the perfect kindness? It has to be that that kindness doer has four characteristics. The first is that the one who's doing the kindness can't change. Right? If someone could change his mind or change his being, so then he might want to do comics with me today, but maybe not tomorrow. Hashem doesn't change. The second aspect is you want somebody who's not dependent on anybody else. You want someone to give you a kindness, but if he's dependent on someone else to bring that kindness to you, so you don't even know if the other person is going to give it to him so he can give it to you. So it has to be someone obviously Hashem is that one who is not dependent on anybody else to do kindness. Third thing is very important that the one who's giving has to be able to do opposites. He has to be able to have within himself the ability to have a self-contradiction. What does that mean? Let's say you need you need a favor from a rich man, but you wronged that rich man. You insulted that rich man, but you need the favor. It's it's going to be hard for the rich man who you have wronged to do you a favor. But Hashem doesn't have that problem because Hashem, he is able to contain contradictions. He loves us despite the fact that we've done wrong. He loves us even when we are distant from him. The fourth aspect is that the person who's doing good, if you want good from that person, there can't be anyone who will stop him from doing that that good. Otherwise, it's not guaranteed they'll do it even if he wants, even if he has the wherewithal. But if someone can stop him, so then you might not get the good. Obviously, no one can stop Hashem. When one being has all of these aspects, all these characteristics, and he wants to do good, nothing can stop him. He's not missing the ability. He doesn't care if you've done wrong to him. It's not it's not going to stop him. If you have he's going to do that kindness. If you have trust in him, he's going to do it. You don't have to be worried that that kindness won't get to you. And once we can clearly see that the only one who has all four of these characteristics is Hashem. So we see from here that the only one that it's appropriate to request and want kindness from is Hashem alone. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you again next time.