Welcome to Daily Bitachon In the last class, we quoted an unbelievable pasuk of Bitachon cited by Rabbenu Yonah in Mishleh 3:26, which wasn't on our previous pesukim list. It's a pasuk in Yeshaya 10:20: ולא יוסיף עוד שארית ישראל ופליטת בית יעקב ל[ה]שען על מכהו No longer will the leftovers of Yisrael and those that are saved from Yaakov rely on the one that's hitting them. Rather, , ונשען על י"י קדוש ישראל באמת" the They'll rely on Hashem, K'dosh Yisrael, the Holy One of Yisrael, b'emet , in truth . We went through different explanations of b'emet , but I want to revisit Rabbenu Yonah, who asks: What does it mean b'emet ? What does it mean to rely on Hashem in truth ? We see similar wording in the pasuk Karov Hashem l'chol kor'av l'chol asher yikra'uhu b'emet —Hashem is close to all those that call out to Him -in truth . Does anyone ever call out to God as a lie ? Says Rabbenu Yonah: B'Emet means bitachon gamur b'lo safek —a complete, absolute reliance without a doubt, that the ' hitting' is not coming from the hitter . It's recognizing without a doubt that they are not the source. That is what he calls b'emet . Beautiful. Then, with Hashem's help, we stumbled on a famous Sefer HaIkkarim in Ma'amar 4 Perek 49, which the esteemed Michael Safdie quotes all the time, but I don't recall him ever connecting it to this pasuk. The Sefer HaIkkarim says: When a person hopes for something, and the person is hoping in a doubtful way—he's not sure if it will come or not—that's going to cause the person to have what he calls תטריד הנפש tatrid hanefesh . It's going to cause, actually, a tirda , preoccupation —when you're not comfortable with yourself. You're hoping, " Is it going to come?" That's one kind of hope. When you're hoping for somebody to have children, that kind of hope is very uncomfortable. That kind of hope is sometimes heartbreaking. But if a person hopes for something that he's guaranteed , he says, like hoping for the sun to come up in the morning—that hope doesn't upset you. That hope doesn't get you down. You're happy because you know it's happening, and you're waiting for it to happen. It's like you know you're getting your tax rebate from the government. You know it's coming; it's in the mail. He says that's the way we are supposed to hope to Hashem: We are hoping to Him with complete bitachon that He will fulfill what I hope for, b'li safek /without a doubt, because He's able to and there's nothing stopping Him. And I shouldn't be hoping to Hashem in a doubtful way like "maybe yes, maybe no." It's not like buying a ticket for the lottery—maybe I'll win, maybe I won't. I'm hoping to win. No . With this type of hope, the bitachon hope, strengthens your heart and makes you happy. Like it says, Chizku v'ya'ametz l'vavchem kol ham'yachalim l'Hashem / strengthen and be courageous in your heart, those that hope to Hashem. Simply, it means that you're supposed to strengthen your heart and then rely on Hashem. But he's saying no—this is a big chiddush - the reliance on Hashem creates the strength chizku v'ya'ametz l'vavchem . Because you know it's going to happen, it gives you strength. This hope, he says, doesn't weaken the heart—it strengthens the heart. And he quotes our pasuk and says it's because the person is Nishan al K'dosh Yisrael b'emet . Rabbeinu Yonah is citing this as the source for a new concept called bitachon b'emet : to rely on Hashem b'emet . And now for the earth-shattering chiddush . Every single day in our Amida we make the bracha Al hatzadikim v'al hachasidim , which is the one that invokes bitachon. It ends with mishan u'mivtach l'tzadikim /The One that the tzadikim rely and lean on. Mishan u'mivtach . Mishan is like a cane called a mish'enet . The Sefer *Avudraham asks: What is the source for this mishan u'mivtach l'tzadikim ? ( as we've said, The Anshei Knesset HaGedola sourced our tefilot from pesukim ) Nothing less than our pasuk of Vnishan al Hashem K'dosh Yisrael b'emet . That's the source—this pasuk! And what do we say in this beracha ? V'ten sachar l'chol habotchim b'shimcha b'emet . Give reward to those who rely on Your name in truth . We never knew—what does that mean, "you rely on Hashem b'emet "? According to Rabbenu Yonah and the Sefer HaIkkarim that are reading it into the pasuk, which is the source of the beracha, it means: Reward those that rely on Hashem with bitachon gamur b'lo safek . *The Avudaraham has a different explanation of v'ten sachar tov l'chol habotchim b'shimcha b'emet . He says: they know the truth of Your name . So the word emet is referrig to understanding of God's name. But we are offering a different explanation: the word b'emet is on the bitachon