554 - Transform Your Bitachon! (Part-3)

Before we begin our Bitachon journey, I would like to just give an overly simplified summary about what Emunah is. Again, if anyone would like to refer to our previous audio inspiration, the place to look is transformyouremunah.com and there you can find the archives of the last two years of daily inspiration, as well as all the courses and more. But for our purposes right now, B'ezrat Hashem, in just one slot, to give an overview of what exactly is Emunah, so that B'ezrat Hashem we can continue from there in our Transform Your Bitachon journey.

 

As we will learn, it is very clear that in order to have Bitachon, one has to have Emunah. It is impossible to have Bitachon without having Emunah, but as the Torah commentaries teach, it is very possible to have Emunah whilst not necessarily having Bitachon. So therefore, in order to be able to embark on our Bitachon journey, we have to first clarify and remind ourselves what exactly is Emunah.

 

So while there is a lot of information, simply speaking, Emunah means digesting the words Ein Od Milvado, sincerely. The words from the verse in the Torah – Ein Ad Milvado – really mean that there is nothing else in the world except for Hashem. That means that anything that transpires throughout our lives, although much of the time it might seem like other people in our lives and other circumstances are the engines driving those forces of the things happening to us in our lives, however, truly digesting Ein Od Milvado means that there is nothing else in the world except for Hashem. That means that every single detail, down to the last degree, is orchestrated exclusively by Hashem in every single one of our lives.

 

In the 13 principles of faith, based on the Rambam, that are printed at the back of many siddurim, we read the words, “I believe with my full heart and with full sincerity, that Hashem creates and manages the details of every single one of His creations, and He alone arranged everything that happened in the past, currently arranges everything that happens in the present, and is the only one exclusively who takes care of everything in the future.” Now why this is such an important foundation to Bitachon is because, as we will see, there are so many different details about how we are able to apply Bitachon to our lives. But a basic and most important foundation to any and all of those applications is to work on internalizing more and more each day that Hashem exclusively runs every single detail in every single one of our lives.

 

And that being the case, as we've discussed so many times in our daily inspiration, that Hashem exclusively orchestrates every single detail to every single one of our lives, and without a doubt can hear every single one of our words that we say to Him, it is one of the most basic extensions of Emunah, to talk to Hashem. The more one builds the belief in Hashem, the more one automatically won't have so many questions about how much should I talk to Hashem, is it okay if I just talk during davening and the like, but rather it will be an obvious go-to that I want to talk to Hashem and I need to talk to Hashem, because it is obvious that that is the greatest effort that we can make in terms of solving our problems, trying to find the right direction in our lives, and anything and everything else, because Hashem runs every single detail in every single one of our lives. So let us make an effort to remember this most important information. The ABC of all of Judaism, and certainly a prerequisite before exploring Bitachon, is to truly digest Emunah.

 

Hashem exclusively runs every single detail in every single one of our lives, nobody can contradict Hashem's will. And therefore the most obvious and logical thing to do is to always reach out to Hashem about anything and everything to the best of our degree. B'ezrat Hashem, in the next session let us begin our journey in Bitachon.