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Hashem Instills Fear

Hashem Instills Fear

FromDaily Bitachon


Hashem Instills Fear

FromDaily Bitachon

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20 minutes
Released:
May 31, 2024
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We are now in a pasuk in Tehilim 65, 6 נ֤וֹרָא֨וֹת ׀ בְּצֶ֣דֶק תַּ֭עֲנֵנוּ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׁעֵ֑נוּ מִבְטָ֥ח כׇּל־קַצְוֵי־אֶ֝֗רֶץ וְיָ֣ם רְחֹקִֽים׃ With awesome works of righteousness. You answer us, our God of salvation. The One Who even people on the farthest ends of earth and distant seas rely on. David Hamelech is saying that Hashem answers us in awesome ways and saves us, and He’s the one that the entire world relies on. The Radak explains that this pasuk is telling us that God acts with the Jewish people in awesome ways, in supernatural ways, in ways that cause people to be afraid of God. God is the reliance of the Jewish people, spread out to all ends of the earth in the most distant of islands, distant from Yerushalayim . All of the Jewish people, deep down, have hope and reliance on God that He will gather us in the end. So, this is a pasuk talking about the reliance of the Jewish people during exile and the Noraot , the awesomeness that God uses. This relates to the famous Gemara in Masechet Yevamot 69B, that says, The Men of the Great Assembly were so called because they returned the crown to its original state. What crown? God is referred to by Moshe Rabbenu as HaEl, HaGadol, HaGibor V’HaNorah But as time went on, Yirmiyah the great prophet said, How could it be that the goyim are in the Bet Hamikdash, taking it over? Where is the fear? I can't say Fear. Then Daniel said, The goyim are subjugating God's children. Where's His strength? I can't say strength . And the answer of the Anshei Knesset HaGedolah was No. God is a Gibor. As it says, Who's the great one? He who controls himself. Do you know how much control it takes for God, so to say, not to lash out on the wicked? And all of this time, God is controlling Himself because He wants to get to the end goal of Mashiach, but we need a little bit more time. At the same time that the goyim are doing what they're doing, God also has Noraotav . What is that? This is the fear of God says the Gemara. If not for the fear of God, how can one nation survive? We think, We’re fine, we’ll survive. We're here. But the fact that we're not stoned when we walk down the street is an expression of God's Norah /the fear that He instills in them. That's why we're able to walk the streets in peace. We see it when God decides to reveal a little bit of what would be going on. We see college demonstrations, worldwide antisemitism, these are just an expression of what could be happening without Noraotav, without God's fear. We find the Maaseh Avot Siman L’Banim in Bereshit 35,5 After Shimon and Levi killed out the people of Shechem, it says וַיִּסָּ֑עוּ וַיְהִ֣י ׀ חִתַּ֣ת אֱלֹהִ֗ים עַל־הֶֽעָרִים֙ אֲשֶׁר֙ סְבִיב֣וֹתֵיהֶ֔ם וְלֹ֣א רָֽדְפ֔וּ אַחֲרֵ֖י בְּנֵ֥י יַעֲקֹֽב׃ They traveled . That means the Jewish people moved out. And there was a fear of God on everyone that was around that area. And they didn't chase the Bnei Yaakov. The Malbim says that they realized that the fact that Shimon and Levi wiped out the town was something Godly and they were afraid to start up with God. This is something we continue to experience. We don't realize this, but there are goyim out there who realize that there's a God of the Jews and you don’t start up with the God of the Jews. I was speaking to a certain non-Jewish, South American fellow who shared with me that some leaders of South America who were very anti-Jewish died. There's a video of Chavez from Venezuela saying Israel should should be demolished and destroyed, and not long after that, he contracted cancer. He gave me a whole bunch of different examples of leaders like this, he said, “ We realize that you don't start up with the God of the Jews.” Then there’s the story of the fellow in the Turkish parliament who got up and blasted the Jews and then had a massive heart attack right there in their parliament. And of course, we had the Iranian president, whose helicopter crashed. Even the goyim see this and realize that there's a fear of the God of the Jews.
Released:
May 31, 2024
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