Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 17 with Rabbi Shais Taub

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all right welcome back we are still in the middle of chapter 3 that really long chapter and we are on the fifth preface akadama ha Hamish's which was about the idea that hashem created the world in such a way where we have various needs and the procurement of those needs are outside of ourselves such am placed those needs outside of ourselves so we would have to go and do various things in order to meet those needs he mentions at the very least let's say you're talking about eating you're not yeah remember I said yesterday you're not a plant you can't photosynthesize so even if you have the food right in front of you and it's ready to eaten it's right there you still have to take the food you have to lift it up you have to put it to your mouth you have to chew it ok so there's always some amount of there are so there's a certain amount of steps between you not having your needs met and getting your needs met and then sometimes there are many many many steps see he gave them metaphor about the water wheel and the you know pumping water from a well and sometimes there's the person who ties up the rope to the animal and the animal pulls the pulley in other words is and I call it the Rube Goldberg machine there's different steps and stages in between you and getting your needs fulfilled okay and any and food is just you know the the probably the archetypical example but he mentions it's not just eating it's it's eating and having having shelter and clothing and even the need for fur for human

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