594 - Transform Your Bitachon! (Part-31)

Let's move forward on this incredible Bitachon journey together, the keys to the real treasures of the world. What an incredible opportunity each one of us has. Let's summarize what we've discussed so far and then move forward, B’ezrat Hashem, with the next Torah sources.

 

We learned in the Chovas HaLevavos that the essence of Bitachon is inner peace and tranquility of the soul - when a person realizes that Hashem is truly taking care of us and chooses to rely on Hashem, the all-powerful, the one who is completely not limited by any human limitations, that thereby leads a person to tremendous inner peace and tranquility of the soul. And in the second source that we explored together, we learned from Rabbeinu Yoina that Bitachon is the confident belief without any shadow of a doubt that Hashem can send us salvation from challenging and trying situations. It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter how dire the situation might be, when we realize, as we learn in the 13 principles of faith, that Hashem exclusively runs every single detail in the world and there's no question in the world that Hashem can help us.

 

And as the Chovas HaLevavos taught us, there's no question in the world that Hashem wants to help us and only wants the best for us. And as we know that Hashem has the ability to help us. When we turn that knowledge into a reliance, that is what brings us to removing the anxiety from our hearts, from the challenging situations that present themselves, and brings us to the inner peace and tranquility of the soul that Bitachon leads to. Now let's read this piece in Rabbeinu Yoina again and focus on the end of the statement. Rabbeinu Yoina is teaching us that Bitachon means to rely on Hashem that He can send our salvation but to such an extent that you have absolutely no doubt that He will send your salvation.

 

So let's use an example, a person has an illness and there is no one in the world that has a cure to this illness. Rabbeinu Yoina is teaching us that what Bitachon would mean in this situation is to rely on Hashem that He will come through for me without any shadow of a doubt. And if as we're going to learn in the coming sections that one of the highest ways we can have Bitachon is to rely on Hashem in what appears to be good in our eyes. So for someone who is ill, what appears good in our eyes is to get better.

 

That would mean to say that I am going to have reliance on Hashem, that He is going to make me better, and this reliance on Hashem is beyond a shadow of a doubt. Now let us make it very clear, we're going to learn in the coming sections that Bitachon is an absolute, it always works. If it doesn't work it's not because it doesn't work, it's because I didn't fulfill the conditions for it to work.

 

But again let us remember the true reward for Bitachon is not about Bitachon working. Let's say a person does not get better because they were not able to have that 100% sincere reliance on Hashem to get better from the illness. That is not the main reward. The main reward is, till the last moment, relying on Hashem and expressing that reliance through prayer and speaking to Hashem, telling Him, Hashem, I know that You can come through for me, and you know what, I am relying on You, that You are going to make me better. And if a person even a little bit has that thought process, that is one of the highest possible things that we can do in this world to achieve our place for eternity in the next world.

 

Rabbeinu Yona is teaching us that Bitachon means to rely on Hashem to such an extent that we know He is going to come through for us, and He is going to send our salvation, but to such an extent that we have no doubt about it, and the absolute reliance on Hashem, that He is going to help me in my predicament. Let's move forward together, B’ezrat Hashem, and gain a better understanding of what true Bitachon is.