A series, not a single speaker
Despite the way the title reads, "REAL Bitachon Series - Shaar HaBitachon" is not a person. It is a shiur series — fifty-nine installments — devoted to a single classic text. Naming it as though it were a speaker misses what it actually is: a sustained, sequential study of one of the foundational works on emunah and bitachon in the Jewish library. Understood that way, the collection makes far more sense.
Shaar HaBitachon, "the Gate of Trust," is one of the ten gates of Chovos HaLevavos, the Duties of the Heart, written by Rabbeinu Bachya ibn Pakuda in eleventh-century Spain. It is the section of that work given entirely to trust in Hashem — what bitachon is, on whom it may be placed, and how it changes the way a person lives. A series of this length can move through it slowly and thoroughly.
What the series works through
Because it follows a text rather than a theme, the series can take up bitachon in the order Rabbeinu Bachya lays it out: the conditions under which trust is warranted, the difference between trusting Hashem and abandoning effort, and the calm that genuine bitachon produces. Fifty-nine parts is room enough to sit with each idea rather than summarize it.
This structure is the series' real advantage over a one-off talk on faith. A listener is not handed a slogan about letting go and letting things happen. They are walked, step by step, through a rigorous medieval framework that has shaped how Jews think about trust for nearly a thousand years. The payoff is a bitachon built on reasons, which tends to hold up better when life tests it.
Why a family would learn it
Bitachon is one of the hardest things to hold onto in an ordinary week, let alone a hard one, and it is not something a child absorbs from a single conversation. A series that returns to the topic again and again models exactly the persistence the subject demands. Learned over time, it becomes part of how a household actually responds to uncertainty.
For parents, the sequential format is a gift. You can take one installment, draw a single idea from it, and bring that idea to the Shabbos table or a bedtime talk, then return the next week for the next piece. Over a year, a family absorbs a serious sefer on trust in Hashem in digestible portions — something almost impossible to do from scattered talks.
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At a glance
Key takeaways
- This is a 59-part shiur series on a text, not an individual speaker.
- Shaar HaBitachon is the "Gate of Trust" within Chovos HaLevavos by Rabbeinu Bachya ibn Pakuda.
- The series follows the sefer in order, building bitachon on reasons rather than slogans.
- Its sequential format lets a family absorb a serious work on trust a portion at a time.
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