WHO DO YOU TRUST? (Bitachon #41)

[Music] he says that a person should also take the following to heart if someone puts his trust in mankind firstly it won't help as it says in Psalm 146 verse number three T 146:3 do not trust in generous people and Mankind who has no salvation even for himself and the prophet Isaiah chapter 2:22 says something similar says refrain from trusting in man whose Soul breathe through his nostrils for of what importance is he here we have a couple of examples of how David and also the prophet Isaiah in essence say the same thing says wait a minute you're going to put all your trust all your future all your everything and you're going to depend on a person I mean don't you realize that that person is just like you he puts his pants on one leg at a time just like you he has red blood just like you if he doesn't he's most likely a frog not a human what do you have so much reliability on him yeah he's smart okay so hasem can decide take off his his wisdom yeah but he's Rich okay so hasem can take away the uh the money it's his money after all everything that you attribute to this person is not from him it's from Hashem so why do you have so much trust in him why do you have so much reliability on him why for what don't you realize this is danger and the prophet Isaiah and say not only don't you realize it's dangerous you shouldn't do it simp you should shouldn't should not do it at all it doesn't say you shouldn't trust a specific person says anyone you shouldn't have any trust whatsoever in anyone other than AEM and then the prophet continues Jeremiah continues to up the anti a little bit in chapter 17 verse number five the Prophet Jeremiah says cursed is the man who trusts in mankind not only is it something you shouldn't do the already told you not only is it something that's really really a terrible idea to do as the prophet isah said but Jeremiah says something worse he says by the way you did it you trusted a person you're bringing a curse on yourself why measure for measure that same measure for measure you trusted in that person Hashem can use that person to actually punish you by making that person untrustworthy by making the person you trusted as the one person that's untrustable how many times did people trust in somebody like for example recent event that happened about less than 10 years ago a lot of really rich people trusted in Bernie maid off and when you see the documentaries of people that suffered from losing their money from Bernie made off you can't help but feel bad but you don't necessarily feel bad for the money loss you feel bad for the hopelessness that many of them have because this whole time they believed they are the ones that made the money and Bernie is the one that's going to help them either preserve it or increase it at no point do any of them even though most of them are Jewish at no point was AEM part of the conversation not to make it and not to preserve it not to anything so these people trusted him many of them trusted him for years 10 years 20 years years and you see one after another this is not an only event it happens constantly there's a uh a certain journalist that I follow from time to time he writes about Ponzi schemes a lot of Ponzi scheme small ones big ones are not usually in headlines all the time of panzi schemes that happen where there's a big Scandal uh don't usually uh hit the news unless you're in the business so I like to follow this stuff because it's first of all I find it interesting how they still don't get the point there still this there's still cmen reborn every day and there's still suckers born every day and they all do the same exact thing that's been happening for years it's the same exact con over and over and over and over again it's like me okay what's what's in my hands right one or left one which one has something in it you say right okay it's not okay which one has one oh it's left one okay which one now I didn't do anything which one out you still pick this one but I told you it's here and you still picked the wrong one over and over again it's much crazy but this happens over and over again people think that you know these things don't happen they happen every week last week there was a $350 million one two days before that he reported a I think it was A5 million or $10 million one a day before that was a 3 milli million dollar one actually two weeks ago it was an Israeli guy Israeli guy from Los Angeles stole about few million dollars from a bunch of his friends in Los Angeles this stuff happens all the time and it's sad why because the victims don't realize why this punishment came to them they blame the guy yes the guy is a thief the guy is a thief but that does not mean that he's the one that did it to you he's a thief he's wicked but him is not who you should be faulting yourself is you should be faulty [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]