0636 - Bitochon 09

00:01 I would like to quote what the Rebbe says in a letter, a םכתב כללי, which was written in the days of Selichos תרמ"ד. And there the Rebbe talks about Bitachon. So I would like to really repeat what the Rebbe says in that letter. He says that it's expected of every Yid to do Avodas Hashem in order to make a dirah b'tachtonim. Then the Rebbe says, but the person might think, how can we expect every Yid to do that when the world is a physical world, a materialistic world, and how do you expect to make from that a ruchnisdike world? So the Rebbe says the explanation is, and he says it's an explanation that every person could understand, and that's the din of Bitachon in Hashem. That's the yesod, the foundation of the Torah, which is a Torah of life, which gives us heirot, lessons in life. As we see it in the Kapitel Tehillim that we say twice a day in the month of Elul, the month that we prepare to the coming year, and also in the beginning of Tishrei, a big part of Tishrei, which is the beginning of the new year, we say, "L'Dovid, Hashem eri v'yishi mimira." What Dovid HaMelech is saying is, "God is my light and my help, so from what should I be afraid? From whom should I be afraid?" And the Rebbe says the Bitachon in Hashem that Dovid HaMelech expresses here, which whatever Dovid HaMelech says is said in the name of every Yid, the complete

01:20 reliance on Hashem's help, that takes around, takes in the material things of a person's life and the spiritual things of a person's life, till the highest levels in Madregot in Avodas Hashem, that everything depends on Bitachon. As we see it in the further psukim of this kapitel, "L'Dovid Hashem eri," till the last pasuk, where it says, "Kaveh al Hashem chazak v'yamitz libecha kaveh al Hashem." Hope to God, be strong, and be firm. Your heart should be firm, and hope to Hashem. And then the Rebbe continues. The din of the Bitachon is to feel assured and convinced that the Aibishter will help a person overcome all hardships in life, materialistic hardships and spiritual hardships. Since Hashem is my light and my help, Hashem eri v'yishi, and for sure we are guaranteed that everyone is able, if you have this Bitachon, able to complete and accomplish and fulfill his shlichus in the world, and with simcha, with a big simcha, realizing, thinking about it, contemplating the fact that the Aibishter himself chose me, everyone has to think, chose me to be his shliach in the world, to make the world for a dirah b'tachtonim, with the guarantee that he has God's light, help, and strength to accomplish this shlichus. So what the Rebbe's saying here, that Bitachon is the yesod for everything, that it is for gashmius, that if you have the real Bitachon, you will definitely get the gashmius that you're supposed to get, and the ruchnius in Avodas Hashem that a person is supposed to

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