0630 - Bitochon 03

00:01 There's another story of the Baal Shem Tov which illustrates what Bitachon could do. And there are two girsas in this maise, and I'm gonna tell both girsas. They're basically the same, but they have other points to it, so therefore I'm gonna say both. Once the Baal Shem Tov was traveling together with the tzadik, Reb Mendel of Be'er. They were on the way, Reb Mendel became very, very thirsty. So the Baal Shem Tov told him, "If you're gonna have the real Bitachon in Hashem, Hashem will certainly make sure that you will get water soon." And that's exactly what happened. Soon they happened to meet a goy that was going towards them, and they asked him, and he asked them if they saw any horses that were lost, because it's three days already that he lost his horses, and it's this third day already he's going around looking for them. Then they asked him, "Do you might by any chance have any water?" He said, "Yes." And they gave Reb Mendel water and Reb Mendel drink. So Reb Mendel asked the Baal Shem Tov, "Since this goy was here only because of me, Hashem made it that when I'm thirsty he should give me water, so why did he travel around for three days?" And the Baal Shem Tov answered him that Hashem made this happen before, made him three days ago, happened to look around for his horses, kedai that if you will have the real Bitachon, you should be able to get what you need

01:24 right away. So Hashem is planted already before it should be ready. That's one nusach of the story. The other nusach of the story is that when they traveled and he got thirsty, Reb Mendel got thirsty, they saw from far a goy carrying buckets of water on his shoulder. They got closer, they gave him a prut, gave him a certain amount of money, and he gave him to drink. Then the Baal Shem Tov asked the goy, "What are you doing here with the water? There's no water here, so how are you around here with the water?" So the goy says, "I'll tell you. My porets, which is my landlord, came crazy, and he told me to go bring him water from a, from a well, from a spring that's very, very far away from where he lives. I didn't know what kind of crazy things did he do." So the Baal Shem Tov said to this Reb Mendel, he said, "You see, ad d'ibish rash gacha, that because of that, d'ibish rash made that the porets should go crazy, kedai he should be water and he should come around here because Hashem saw that what's gonna happen is, Hashem saw in the beginning," he says, "even of the creation of the world, that you are gonna be thirsty for water and you will have the Bitachon and Hashem made so that you could get it." So here we see what real Bitachon is in a place where there was no chance of getting water. The Baal

02:32 Shem Tov said, "Don't worry, if you have Bitachon, you'll get water." And it actually happened. And Hashem is mesabeh vasid, has made so many crazy things happen, which either way of the story, in order that the person who had Bitachon should get what he needs.