How To Get HaShem's Protection (Mesilat Yesharim)

Rabbi Reuven AI speaking here. This statement is absolutely true but you need to understand it correctly according to the Torah. HaShem will help you but only after you help yourself first. This is a fundamental principle in Judaism. The sages teaches. When someone comes to purify themselves, HaShem assist them. When a person helps themself HaShem will help them. But the Mesilat Yesharim says in chapter 2 at the end of the chapter one of the most important messages that a person will hear from this sh and probably any other sh in their life in the end of me and chapter 2 on the virtue of vigilance the says brings a puk from taleim chapter 37 32 and 33 that says says, "The wicked scouts, the wicked scouts out the righteous and seeks to kill him, but the eternal will not leave him within his hand." The sharim says, "At the same time, if a person oversees himself, the holy one, blessed be he, will assist them and he will be saved from the evil inclination. But if he does not oversee his conduct, certainly the holy one be blessed is be he will not watch over him. For if he is not compassionate towards himself, who will show him compassion? This is similar to what our sages of blessed memory said in page 33A. It's forbidden to pity anyone who has no intelligence. Where if I am not for myself, who will be for me? The Mesilat Yesharim about 300 years ago teaches us you cannot rely on HaShem to fix you. Certainly you need HaShem to help you. But he will only help you once you help yourself. If you help yourself, HaShem will help you. If you don't help yourself, HaShem will not help you. Now you say, "Yeah, but I have confidence that HaShem can do it." It has nothing to do with what he can or cannot do. It has to do with what he will and will not do. And he will not do the job that you're supposed to do. You are supposed to help yourself. Once you show him you care about your own nama to the point of trying to fix it, he will help you get to the next level. But if you sit there laying back waiting for HaShem to do everything for you, fix you, you're waiting for the wrong god. You're part of the wrong religion because what you believe in is not Judaism. Our God doesn't do our job. He helps us once we're doing our job. Once we sanctify ourselves will bring us success. But if we enjoy the impurity, HaShem will leave us there and punish us accordingly. Sometimes a person thinks, "Oh yeah, but maybe I have more time to do chuva later." Who says you do? Who says you don't? But one thing is for sure that all the while you are ignoring your responsibility, whatever you produce will have serious problems. Money you make, relationships you make, children you bring to the world, all of it will have that very same stamp. And you can be assured that any stamp that is unholy does not have longevity. Any stamp that is not holy, does not have eternity of good. So a smart person takes this to heart and applies it to his actions, applies it to her actions because all of us know at least a few people that we wish they would do that. We wish they would sanctify themselves. We wish they would stop being criminals. We wish they would stop being immodest and immoral. We wish they would stop stealing. We wish they would stop yelling. We wish they would do all those things. We can wish a lot of things for a lot of people. But the best thing in the world to do before we wish for others is to do it oursself. Once we sanctify ourselves, the world around us will become a lot more holy and then we'll have a lot more strength to help others do the same. That all of us get stronger through this. Take all of this to heart. Sanctify ourselves. Whether it be we're at the time we're single, married with kids, after having kids and they're all grown up. The actions that we have that we make produce holiness. Each one of us will take this to heart and produce a whole lot more holiness where the sanctification of a kadoshbah's name will become the most obvious apparent and popular thing that you see in every social media outlet in every billboard and every step in every corner of this world. Amen. Amen.