BITACHON AND EMUNAH
Bitachon & Emunah: Part 17
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Why the Alter Rebbe recommends saying Parshas HaMan daily for bitachon, and how the manna's unlimited nature reflected the Jews' trust — teaching that complete bitachon makes a person a vessel for blessing beyond natural limits.
Audio Transcript
- Connecting Trust in God to the Manna
- Shedding Limitations to Become a Divine Vessel
The ענין of בטחון in השם is connected to the מן, as the אלטר רבי writes in שולחן ערוך, הלכות השכמת הבוקר, מהדורא בתרא, he says טוב לומר בכל יום, it's good to say every day, he says פרשת עקידה, and then he says ופרשת המן, to say the פרשה of the מן, לבטוח בהשם, it makes a person have trust in השם, בטחון in השם, נותן לחם דבר יום ביומו, who gave the bread every day. In other words, just like by the מן we saw that every day the אייבערשטער gave the bread, and all the יידן relied, they knew that they have nothing to worry about, they relied on השם that tomorrow He'll give them the bread again, and the next day again, so they had בטחון. So saying the פרשת המן gives the person בטחון. So the רבי in לקוטי שיחות in חלק ד' page 1101 says an interesting ווארט. The מן we know was לחם מן השמים. The מן was bread from heaven. ממילא it was בלי גבול, unlimited. And even when it came down in this world, it still had certain features of being unlimited. For instance, you could taste any taste you wanted in it, there was no limit to what taste it had. Also, wasn't even limited to food. חז״ל say that when the מן came down, אבנים טובות ומרגליות, diamonds and and מרגליות were coming down together with the מן. So the מן was very much unlimited, and that's connected to the fact that this had to do with בטחון. Because they had the בטחון, that's what it seems from the שיחה, because they had the בטחון, so the בלי גבול of the מן, the way it's in שמים, came down here. And from there the רבי says, what do we take from here is that by a person having the real בטחון, which means he unclothes himself of his own מציאות, of his own limitations, from the feeling that a human being might have כחי ועצם ידי עשה לי את החיל הזה, that it's me who got whatever I need, if you unclothe yourself from that, you get out of these limitations, and you rely with a complete בטחון on the אייבערשטער, then you become a כלי, a vessel, to receive all the השפעות מלמעלה, even השפעות בגשמיות בלי גבול. Things which a נברא מצד הגבלתו, a נברא because he's limited, cannot even accept, but if you have the proper בטחון, the אייבערשטער gives you all the greatest things even בגשמיות and certainly ברוחניות, which is like by the מן, because the יידן had the בטחון, that's why the מן came down here being בלי גבול, סיי in the taste, בלי גבול in what it brought, it brought even other things too, and that could be by a ייד also, that if you have a regular בטחון גמור, the complete בטחון גמור, we become a כלי to receive all the השפעות מלמעלה, which are higher than הגבלות. And in our case, for sure, the אייבערשטער will give the ישועה למעלה מדרך הטבע למעלה מהגבלות if we have the proper
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