Tag: bitachon
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Parshat B’Shalach Gives You a Picture of Bitachon You Can Actually Live Parshat B’Shalach gives you a picture of bitachon you can actually live. Because right after the miracles, right after the Shira, Hashem introduces a strange system called the maan. And it is not only food. It is training. The Desert Was Hashem’s “Abundance…
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Chazal describe Bnei Yisrael in Mitzrayim as being at the edge, almost beyond saving. Bnei Yisrael was on the “49th level of tumah.” The point is not the number. The point is the closeness to the cliff. And then something unbelievable happens. A nation that could barely lift its head becomes a nation ready to…
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When You Do Everything Right… There’s a version of Bitachon that works greatas long as nothing goes wrong. And then there’s the version you needwhen something actually breaks. I want to tell you a story from early on in my content journey — not because it’s dramatic, but because it exposed the exact moment where…
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Mechakeh, The Waiting That Changes You There are different levels of bitachon. A person can believe in Hashem. A person can hope. A person can lean on Him. But the Rambam’s formulation (as we say in Ani Ma’amin) points to a higher level, a sharper, more alive stance: “Achakeh.” Achakeh does not mean “I know…
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There’s a Famous Gemara… There’s a famous Gemara: Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi meets Eliyahu HaNavi and asks him, “When will Mashiach come?” Eliyahu tells him, “Go ask him.” Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi asks, “Where can I find him?” Eliyahu answers: “At the gates of Rome, sitting among the poor and afflicted.” Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi…
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There’s a kind of pressure that doesn’t look dramatic on the outside…but it quietly weighs down your whole day. You’re not panicked.You’re not in crisis.And yet you still feel behind. What I started noticing wasn’t just the noise in my head.It was the pressure underneath it — a low, invisible hum… even when things are…
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If your mind won’t shut off…if you wake up already behind…if you feel pressure even on “good” days… It’s probably not because your life is hard.It’s because you’re carrying a belief that turns life into a weight. Here it is:“It’s all on me.” That sentence sounds responsible.It sounds mature.It sounds like adulthood. But it’s also…
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Two “New Pharaohs” There are two “new Pharaohs” in Parshat Shemot. The first is obvious: a new king rises who “doesn’t know Yosef,” and the darkness begins. But the second is quieter: Pharaoh dies… and the slavery still doesn’t loosen its grip. Bnei Yisrael cry out again, and this time Hashem “hears,” “remembers,” and redemption…
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Parshat Vayechi opens with Yaakov Avinu doing something deeply personal. Before he dies, he gathers his sons and gives each one a different bracha. Not because he loved some more than others, but because he knew each one. He saw their nature, their struggles, and what each one would need to fulfill his unique mission.…
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There’s a quiet moment that happens at the end of the year. There’s a quiet moment that happens at the end of the year.Not when you look at the calendar…but when you look at yourself. You remember how this year started.The excitement.The plans you genuinely believed in.The sense that this time things would move. And…
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