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Shabbat the soul awakened

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/28

Welcome to daily bitachon , an important thought about Shabbat as we've been doing lately on our Friday class. We mentioned two weeks ago that Shabbat has many areas of parallels to the Bet HaMikdash . We have the candles, we have the menorah , we have the loaves of bread, we have the shulchan . We have the zimirot , we have the liviyim singing, we have our clothing of Shabbat , we have bigdei kehuna . And that is because Shabbat is a sanctuary of time. Shabbat is the mikdash of time. That's why in

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13 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/25

Welcome to our bitachon series. We are now going through shaar bechina in the Chovos HaLevavos . And he told us that there are three obstacles from us enjoying life in this world. We'll repeat them one more time. Obstacle number one is, we always want more than we have, so we don't appreciate what we have. Obstacle number two is that we are used to what we have. We already take it for granted. And obstacle number three is, things don't always go right for us and therefore, we don't appreciate our

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12 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/24

Welcome to our Bitachon series. We were going through Sha'ar HaBechina now, and he's bothered by why is it that we're not all jumping for joy over all the great things that are in the world, if tov Hashem lakol . And his third reason was that things don't always go right, and we don't appreciate that and therefore, we don't see the goodness. And today we'll spend some time on appreciating when things don't go right. The Ramchal in his sefer Derech Hashem , volume two, chapter eight, says, we all

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Shabbat Message- A sanctuary in time

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/21

Shabbat Message- A sanctuary in time Welcome to the daily Bitachon . As we mentioned, this coming Rosh Hashanah is going to be on Shabbat , and therefore since we don't have the shofar , the year before we need to make sure we're on our best behavior on Shabbat , so with Hashem's help we'll be talking about Shabbat on Fridays.This week's parashah , coincidentally, Chayei Sarah , talks about the passing of Sarah and it talks about that when Rivka came into the tent, the miracles returned. What were

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11 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/20

Welcome to daily Bitachon . We are now in our Sha'ar HaBechinah series, trying to figure out why we're not all jumping for joy if Tov Hashem l'kol , God is good to everybody. Why is it that most people don't realize it? And we gave two reasons. Reason number one is we're always looking for more. Reason number two, we're just used to it. And reason number three, because things don't always go right. And we have financial losses, we have physical ailments and we don't understand how these can possibly

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10 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/19

Welcome to our daily Bitachon series. We continue to talk about Sha'ar HaBechinah . And as we said in the past, it relates to Sha'ar HaBitachon in a very strong way. There's a Midrash that says there was a Kohen who was going on a business trip. And before he left, he wanted to tell his wife different laws about how to figure out Tzara'at , leprosy. And he told her in his discussion that only one hair grows out of one follicle and two hairs do not grow out of two follicles. She told him if every

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09 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/18

Welcome to our daily Bitachon series and we are now in the Sha'ar HaBechina of the Chovot HaLevavot discussing seeing God in creation. And he tells us that the second reason why people don't see God in creation is they're just used to it. They see it all the time. It doesn't talk to them, doesn't mean anything, nothing extraordinary. The Chovot HaLevavot in his Sha'ar Cheshbon HaNefesh chapter three, says that a person should never be at the point which he calls he gives up on the wow. What does

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Shabbat Message: A sanctuary in time

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/14

Welcome to the daily Bitachon . As we mentioned, this coming Rosh Hashanah is going to be on Shabbat , and therefore since we don't have the shofar , the year before we need to make sure we're on our best behavior on Shabbat , so with Hashem's help we'll be talking about Shabbat on Fridays.This week's parashah , coincidentally, Chayei Sarah , talks about the passing of Sarah and it talks about that when Rivka came into the tent, the miracles returned. What were the three miracles? Miracle number one

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08 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/13

Welcome to daily Bitachon as we continue in our trek through Shaar HaBechinah finding God in creation in the Chovot HaLevavot . And as the Chovot HaLevavot tells us, although God's goodness is all encompassing as it says Tov Hashem la'kol , yet most people are blind. The first reason for the blindness is I only see what I don't have, don't appreciate what I do have. The second reason is what we call hergel . It becomes habit and therefore it's mundane.Now Rav Wolbe writes that this concept of habit

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07 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/12

Welcome back to our daily ביטחון. We're talking about recognizing השם in creation and appreciating as we said, the concept of טוב השם לכל, everything God doing is constantly good. I once heard an explanation, I don't remember where, this a seeming paradox of rain. Rain is the greatest thing in the world. The גמרא goes on and describes that rain is like תחיית המתים, like the resurrection of the dead. The rain comes down, the earth is dry, it's like it's dead, and it comes back to life. And yet,

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06 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/11

Welcome to daily בטחון. We're now continuing to discuss the concept of recognizing God in creation, recognizing all the good that he does for us. And now that we said, as explained yesterday, טוב השם לכל, God is good to everybody, not just most people, everybody, we have to figure out why is it that we're not all jumping and dancing in appreciation for all this goodness. And the חובות הלבבות is going to give us three reasons. Reason number one is, we're so busy in this world and the pleasures of

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05 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/10

Welcome to daily dose of בטחון . We're on the topic of finding Hashem in creation, which as we said is important for our בטחון .Now, the חובת הלבבות in his שער בחינה opens up with the following important line. טובות הא-ל יתעלה על בריותיו . The benefits and the goodness of God on his creations, הם כוללות את כולם . They include everybody. As it says in תהלים , we say it every day in אשרי, טוב ה׳ לכל . God is good to everybody. Even though that's the absolute truth, he says most people are blind from

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03 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/09

Previously we spoke about the רמב"ם that says that אהבה and יראה comes simultaneously by looking into creation. The רמב"ם actually mentions אהבה first. Interesting to note the חובות הלבבות in the tenth gate, the gate of אהבת השם, clearly states that אהבה is all at the end of the totem pole, it's his final gate. And he says that quite often the Torah mentions fear of Hashem before love. Like it says, ואתה ישראל, דברים 10:12, מה השם אלוקיך שואל מעמך? What does God want from you? כי אם ליראה to fear

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04 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/07

Welcome to daily בטחון on our daily dose of gratitude series where we're talking about finding Hashem in creation. רב וולבה in his ספר עלי שור, volume 2, page 59, quotes from רבינו יונה in שערי תשובה, the third gate, the 17th piece. Where he's talking about מצוות עשה that we have to know about, that we need to do. And he says you should know that some of the most highly lofty levels are actually given to us as commands. We're commanded to love Hashem. We're commanded to cleave to him. These are

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02 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/05

Welcome to daily ביטחון . We are now focusing on finding God in creation and realizing his kindness, which is the fundamentals of reliance.Now when we're doing this, what exactly are we doing when we're finding God in creation? What should our intent be? We know there's a rule מצוות צריכות כוונה . Our מצוות need to have proper intent. What is the intent? The רמב"ם , in his ספר יד החזקה on the foundations of תורה chapter 2, tells us that we have a מצווה to love and fear השם . And he quotes a פסוק to

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01 Daily Dose of Gratitude

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/04

Welcome to daily ביטחון . We're going to make a little bit of a switch in our series, which we've done many times over our history. Our focus is ביטחון . ביטחון doesn't just start with ביטחון . Interesting to note, the חובות הלבבות wrote ten gates. שער הביטחון is the fourth gate, which is the fourth floor. To get to the fourth floor, you usually have to walk through the lobby, the first, the second, the third, until you can get to the fourth floor. You can't just jump right onto the fourth floor

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Deal Direct

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/11/02

The Highest Level of Reliance ( Bitachon ) Welcome to our daily thought on Bitachon (Reliance on God), focusing today on a verse from Tehillim (Psalms) Chapter 40: " אשרי הגבר אשר שם ה׳ מבטחו, ולא פנה אל רהבים, ושטי כזב ." "Praiseworthy is the man who has made God his trust, and turned not to the arrogant, nor to the strayers after falsehood." The commentary Tefillot David explains what it means to truly place one's reliance in God ( שם ה׳ מבטחו ): Relying on the Means vs. Relying on the Source

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Shabbat Kidush

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/10/31

Welcome to daily בטחון . As we know, one of the sources are אמונה and בטחון is שבת . And as we mentioned last week, since next year ראש השנה is going to be on a שבת , we need our שבת of this year to be on our best behavior. So, בלי נדר , every Friday's class will be something about שבת with השם 's help. I'd like to share with you something very interesting that I just learned this week. We all know that we stand up Friday night by קידוש, ספרדי custom, and we sit שבת morning. Now, what is the reason

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Seek refuge in Gd

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/10/30

Refuge vs. Guarantee: Two Levels of Trust Today we focus on a verse from Mishlei (Proverbs) : " בִּירְאַת ה׳ מִבְטַח עֹז, וּבָנָיו יִהְיֶה מַחְסֶה ." "In the fear of God is a powerful stronghold, and for his children, it will be a shelter." The Vilna Gaon explains this by contrasting two concepts of reliance, drawn from Tehillim 118:9 " טוֹב לַחְסוֹת בַּה', מִבְטֹחַ בַּנְּדִיבִים " (It is better to seek refuge in God than to rely on nobles). Defining Bituach vs. Chassayon (Reliance vs. Refuge) The

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Dont rely on your wealth

Daily Bitachon ·

2025/10/29

Trust Not in Possessions: Psalm 62:11 Welcome to Daily Bitachon. Today's verse is Psalm 62:11: תבטחו בעושק ובגזל. אל תהבלו חיל. כי ינוב, אל תשיתו לב .) "Do not trust in oppression or robbery; do not have vain hope in ill-gotten gain. Though wealth flourishes, set not your heart on it." The Illusion of Material Satisfaction The verse cautions us against placing our trust in wealth acquired through unethical means ,It also warns against even having vain hope in material gain , even when that wealth

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