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BITACHON AND EMUNAH

Bitachon & Emunah: Part 8

Part of Bitachon and Emunah · 4:33

From the Rebbe's farbrengen of Parshas Devarim 5734: speaking about bitachon itself strengthens Hashem's protection — illustrated by mentioning the zechus of the Avos during the Temple service, and the manna that fell closer to those with greater bitachon.

Audio Transcript
  1. The Essence of Trust in God
  2. Why Mention Hebron in the Sacrificial Announcement
  3. Daily Recitation of Parshat HaMan for Confidence
  4. Conclusion: Speaking Trust Amplifies Divine Safeguarding
When we talk about the ענין of בטחון in השם, it seems that the reason we talk about it is cuz that's the way we're going to bring out the person's feeling. Because בטחון is a feeling, it's a mindset, and actually feeling that the אייבערשטער will definitely bring him טוב הנראה והנגלה. So it's only we could say a preparation so we should properly feel that. But the רבי, in the פארברענגען of פרשת דברים תשל״ד, the רבי said that the speaking, the דיבור concerning בטחון, is מחזק and is מוסיף in the ענין השמירה. Just the talking about it adds and strengthens the שמירה, the protection the אייבערשטער gives. And he gives an example. Example is it says in גמרא that when they used to bring a קרבן, so in the morning they had to bring when it got already light, so they would say that it got light, they would have to announce it, and the לשון they would say is, האיר פני כל המזרח עד שבחברון, that the whole side of מזרח already is light till it shines to חברון. And what was the purpose of mentioning חברון? Should say the light is there already. So the גמרא says in order to mention the זכות אבות. The אבות are buried in חברון, to mention the זכות of אברהם, יצחק, ויעקב. And the רבי says it's not understood. Who did the עבודה? The כהנים. The כהנים themselves were אייניקלאך, were grandchildren from the אבות. The לויים who did their share were אייניקלאך, were grandchildren from the אבות. The ישראל במעמדם, the ישראל, everyone involved, they were grandchildren from the אבות. So there you have the אבות there, you have the זכר to the אבות there. Why do you have to say it, האיר פני כל המזרח שבחברון? So the answer is that when you mention it בדיבור, it adds and is מחזק, strengthens the זכות of the אבות. And the רבי says בכלל that's the whole ענין of תפילה. The אייבערשטער is זן ומפרנס, the אייבערשטער feeds the whole world כולו בטובו, so why do we have to come onto a איד should be מתפלל, a איד should say it? And the מצות עשה of תפילה is a איד should say the תפילה. The answer is that we need, the more you say it, when you say it, it strengthens the השפעה from השם. And the same thing here also, that when we speak of the ענין of בטחון, so the שמירה, the protection that השם gives you is more. And the רבי even added that according to the warmth and the excitement that you talk about בטחון, that's how much the שמירה is. The more you talk about it and the stronger you talk about it, then it brings that the אייבערשטער protects you more. And he brings that the אלטער רבי in שולחן ערוך, when he says that you should say פרשת המן every day, which in סידור he doesn't say it, so in, I mentioned it before, so מהדורא תנינא, the אלטער רבי says that this is in order to awaken the בטחון, and that's the reason why we should say it. And it's interesting, the רבי brings what it says in the ספר אור המאיר, one of the תלמידים of the מעזריטשער מגיד, and צמח צדק brings him in מאמרים, etc., etc. So the אור המאיר explains that by the מן, the גמרא says there were three categories: צדיקים, בינונים, and רשעים. Cuz it says in פסוק that the מן fell next to your house, it says the מן fell further away, and then the מן fell went even further. So the אור המאיר says that this, and the גמרא says this is the the three categories of אידן: צדיקים it fell right next to their house, and by the בינונים it fell further, and by the רשעים it fell even further. And even how they did it, if it fell like a finished product or it fell that you still have to bake it or if you still have to grind it, also depends if you're a רשע or a צדיק. A צדיק fell finished product, by a בינוני you still had to bake it, and by a רשע you still even had to grind it. So he says, what does that mean? That these three levels depend on the levels of בטחון. The ones that had the real real בטחון, and it seems from here from the שיחה that spoke about the בטחון, so by him it was all the way, it came ממש straight in front of his house and it came finished product. The one that were בינונים in בטחון and talking about בטחון, it was not like that. And the one that didn't speak much about בטחון, so by them that was the worst thing. So here we see that number one, the בטחון itself brings that the אייבערשטער should do the שמירה and give you what you need, and not only that, but the talking about it is also. Besides the fact that when you talk about it it is מעורר a person to think about it and it brings it into a feeling, but the talking itself helps that the אייבערשטער should protect us, and that's why we keep on talking about the ענין of בטחון.
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