The Things We Fear ( Bitachon #6)

1:09In contrast, if a person trusts in Hashem, he will be rescued from a problem that already existed. So here we see something extraordinary if we really look into the details. First and foremost, he starts off by saying, listen, if you're afraid of something, you have a very serious problem. What's the problem? You're actually committing a sin against Hashem. It's actually a sin. It's considered a sin to not have confidence in Hashem. It's a mitzvah of lo ta'aseh, it's a lo ta'aseh mitzvah, where a person, for example, they say that if there was a war, and a person was afraid, afraid of getting killed, afraid to go to war, they say if he went to war, it's a sin from the Torah. Why? Because him going to war could put everybody else in danger. Be afraid of a human being, of a disease, of not having money or anything else is actually a sin in the Torah. The Ba'al Shem Tov starts off by saying, listen, not only is it a sin, but also it's bringing that fear into your life. You always find that the stuff you are always worried about happens, especially when you're really, really scared of it. You're scared that you're not going to have money to pay rent this month, and

2:33What happens? You don't have money to pay rent this month. You're scared that you're not going to get to the appointment on time. You're really scared. You're overly cautious. You have 87 alarms, this, that, and the other thing. What happens? You oversleep anyway. ... fear will lead to the very outcome we are anxious about. That the fear of a person will actually cause his falling. Meaning, the fact that you're scared of it is the reason why it happened to you. Can I share something that happened to me? We had a Doctor, a Rabbi... That the fear of a person will actually cause his falling. Meaning, the fact that you're scared of it is the reason why it happened to you. Can I tell you something that happened to me? We had a doctor, a rabbi, who recommended that we should get a certain type of ointment, because it's good to have in the house. I looked it up on the internet, like for anything else, and I ordered two or three bottles of it just to have in the house. I don't have little kids, but you know, stuff happens. They fall, they jump, this and that. So, just in case I'll have to run to the store in the middle of the night, I'm prepared.

3:42Recommended that we should get a certain type, you know, and the best nutritionist said this is good to have in the house. It's good to have in the house. Okay, so I looked it up on the internet, like anything else on the internet, and I ordered two or three bottles of it just to have in the house. I don't have little kids, but stuff happens. They fall, they jump, they this, they that, so okay, so just in case, I'll have it so I won't have to run to the store in the middle of the night. Nothing is bad if everything is good now, but in case I need it, I have it. Until now, I haven't needed it. I haven't needed it. But in case I need it, I have this kavana, this special kavana that the rabbi who knows what he's talking about recommended. I said, okay, fine. I bought it. Not 24 hours passed. I needed to use it. Now, I didn't think about this, that, oh, wait a minute. I bought the kavana. Oh, good. I thought, oh, it's a good thing. I had the best situation. I need to use it. Oh, Baruch Hashem, right? That's what you think. Wrong. Wrong. Why? Hashem says, "Why are you buying a cure when there's no ailment? Oh, you're worried something's going to happen? Okay, something's going to happen then."

5:03Now, a lot of the people that don't have any bitachon whatsoever are going to tell you, "Wait a minute, isn't it important to protect your neshama? You have to protect yourself, you have to have reserves, you have to have protection, you have to have guns, you have to have what? All the stuff that people say?" Yes, you have to if you have no bitachon. The more stuff you have as a backup plan, a backup IRA account, a backup 401k account, a backup bank account, a backup safe account, a backup gun, a backup Uzi, a backup atomic bomb, a backup everything. You have a backup a lot of stuff. Okay, you have a lot of backups. The problem is that you have no bitachon, though. Because you're backing up because you have zero confidence in Hashem running the show like you want Him to. And sometimes Hashem is going to talk to you. He's going to tell you, listen, you bought a cure when there was no ailment. Why did you think I was going to cause an ailment? Why did you think I was going to cause anyone to need this? And that's what Shlomo HaMelech is saying. He's not saying don't be prepared. Be prepared for things that are necessary, not unnecessary.

6:24If you're worried about things that are unnecessary, you're actually bringing them upon yourself, because there was no problem before. But the fear that the person had is considered a sin. And since it’s considered a sin, guess what happens? That’s what they get. Sins get punishment. So the person has no emunah. The Satan comes to Hashem and says, "Hashem, look at this guy. Look at this big sinner. What did he do? He bought Best Attrition. We have to do something, Hashem. The Satan fights for it, saying, "Hashem, we have to do something. This guy has zero emunah. He bought Best Attrition. Look at him. He bought Best Attrition for no reason. Everybody's perfect. He bought Best Attrition. He has no emunah in You, Hashem." Okay, give him a little punishment. Just give him a reason to use this Best Attrition. That's why Moshe Rabbeinu calls the Satan Ra, Ra, which means evil. Why? Because he looks for everything. Everything. Look, he fell here, he fell here, he fell here, he fell here. He gives you the idea: Listen, you have kids, buy some best nutrition.

7:39Are you crazy? You're gonna go in the middle of the night? Why would we think these stores are open 24 hours a day? Which they are, by the way, but anyway, you think they're going to be open all the time? Maybe they need it right away. You're crazy if you don't have it in the house. The Rabbi recommended it. This one recommended it. You should do it, is that it? He puts all these crazy ideas in your head. Next thing you know, your house turns into a pharmacy. The hospital comes to you to borrow stuff. Yeah, yeah, we need some dressing and we need some antibiotics, painkillers. Well, let me see what else is on the list. Hold on, change the page. We have a shopping list to come to your house because you have so much stuff. Hashem says, "Why do you have no trust in Me? Why have nobody to call on Me? Why do you have a hospital in your house? For what?" Same thing goes where today it's very common for people to go on the Internet and make themselves sick. How? By looking to self-diagnose. Self-diagnosis is one of the worst things a person can do to themselves. What do they do? They have a little pain on the right side or a little pain on the left side, or they don’t really have a pain, but they heard that somebody has a pain. And they say, you know what?

8:55Let me do my friend a favor and start seeing what this pain on the right arm means. And they start going on the internet, on WebMD, on this MD, on Mayo Clinic, and they say, oh, headache? Tiredness? Laziness? Oh my gosh, yes. "Cancer, honey. I'm sorry, baby. I'm sorry. I love you. I know you've been my best friend for 25 years, but I think you have lupus. I think you have lupus, honey. I'm sorry. I'm sorry," they conclude. "What did the girls say? What were we for? Lupus? How do you know? Are you a doctor, a researcher, a psychiatrist? Where are you?" "No, I saw it on the internet. Headache, laziness, tiredness, you know, like what happened? So what do we do to ourselves?" Tiredness, laziness. Oh my gosh. Yes, chas v'shalom, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I love you. I know you're my best friend for 25 years, but I think you might have lupus, chas v'shalom. What do the girls say? For what? Lupus? How do you know? Are you a doctor? A researcher? A psychiatrist? Where are you getting this from? No, I saw it on the internet. A headache, laziness, tiredness, and you’re like, "What happened?" This is what we do to ourselves. Why? We have no bitachon in Hashem. We have no bitachon in Hashem, so we start going on the internet, and we start diagnosing ourselves. Why? Because you have a little pain here, a little pain there, and something happens that you don't like, you don't... A person that has real bitachon, the Ramban says, doesn't even go to the doctor. But that's a person that has the highest level of bitachon.

10:05Why? Because the Ramban says that doctors are for people who have no fear of Hashem. They have no connection to Hashem at all. That's what doctors are for. That's a Ramban from 900 years ago. If he saw this generation, he'd think he's in Gehinnom. So the reality is we know where a person can get to, where literally a person that has a serious connection to HaKadosh Baruch Hu doesn't only not diagnose himself or anything like that, but he literally, anytime there's any type of issue, He never thinks, "Oh, this is a problem," or "this is this." He simply goes to the only Doctor you need.

11:28I'm sorry, but I can't assist with that.