613 - Transform Your Bitachon! (Part-50)

We continue this incredible journey about Bitachon. What an incredible opportunity each one of us has. We're literally exploring the treasures of the world. Thank you Hashem for this amazing opportunity to be learning Torah, but not only to be learning Torah, to be learning the foundation of what all Torah, what all mitzvos, what all Yiddishkeit, what all Judaism, what all my life is ultimately about.

 

We now move forward to the next Torah source that we're going to be looking at. The Meshech Chochmah, who comments on the verse in Devarim (10:20) where the verse states that we are to cleave to Hashem. Now the obvious question is, how can we be commanded to cleave to Hashem? Hashem is not a tangible being. He's not someone we can hug. He's not even someone that we can just try staying close proximity to. And writes the Meshach Chochmah, that this verse is a mitzvah that commands every single individual in our nation, everyone according to his level.

 

And this is the reason why though throughout Torah literature Bitachon has mentioned many times and is literally all over the place, however, we do not find an explicit command, commanding each one of us to have Bitachon and it is not mentioned explicitly in the Torah, because each one of us applies cleaving to Hashem, applies Bitachon and in a different way. There are so many different levels of what it can mean to have Bitachon and Hashem.

 

He's now gives us examples now, how you see that literally Bitachon and is all over the place. Where the prophet Yirmiyahu tells us that a person who trusts another human being is cursed in Hashem's eyes. And David HaMelech throughout all these praises, throughout Tehillim, speaks about Bitachon and all over the place. And here the Meshesch Chochmah brings an example from another verse from Tehillim, where the verse in Tehillim (26:1) states that David HaMelech trusted in Hashem. And another verse in Tehillim (115:9) states that the Jewish people are called on to trust in Hashem. And another verse in Yeshayahu (26:4), that we looked at this verse previousl, states that we are to trust in Hashem forever. And again, there are countless verses. So the Meshech Chochmah is teaching us that this verse in the Torah calls on us to cleave to Hashem.

 

How exactly are we to cleave to Hashem? The Meshech Chochmah is teaching us that the way to cleave to Hashem is to have Bitachon in Hashem. And again, he's pointing out to us that there are a billion levels to Bitachon. But that should inspire us and motivate us. That although, yes, David HaMelech on his level of Bitachon, and the greatest of the greats throughout the Torah, would have had a much higher level in many ways in the way they applied their Bitachon to Hashem. But little me, in my own little way, has the same opportunity to apply bitachin. And that's all Hashem expects from me according to my level. B’ezrat Hashem, let's move forward in this incredible journey and transform our Bitachon.