Belief is not enough—you need trust.
The Talmud says that before a robber breaks in, he prays that G‑d should help him.
He believes in G‑d, but he doesn’t trust Him to provide him an honest living—and so he steals and murders instead.
Trust in G‑d is when your belief changes the way you live.
Don't believe in G_d.
Reveal G_d!
Reveal G_d within the correct connection of true love between others. Then we generate His energy between us.
Hold this sensation within your heart. This will change the way you live. This will change your world.
Only by revealing G_d through His quality we will know Him. We will trust Him.
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Baruch HaShem
Shalom Aleichem, Brenda....
I hope you had a great Pesach.
(Brenda, I couldn't figure out how to get my contact info to you without posting it here for all to have. If you have a suggestion, please let me know),
i thought i was close to understanding the 'correct connection of true love" and how to give and receive; but i see i am not even in the ball park. I find i understand less and less and grow more weary.
Continued blessings of G-d upon you and yours.
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The trust that we have in G-d fashions the way that we pray. For with this trust, along with its associated belief, we would not need to ask G-d for anything! This is because he would already have become aware of our need and how He could (and often does) choose to meet it.
Therefore our prayers, which are usually shaped with a blessing to Him, are not straight-forward demands or requests, but more accurately statements of what we are receiving and acknowledgements that G-d is truly blessed because of what he is providing.
This concept suggests to me that when a specific request is made through prayer, it is a kind of chutzpah, to deliberately direct it to G-d, who is sure to know all about it already, and presumably will respond in His way and in His time.
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Hello, David
Although your comment was 2 years ago, it's an accurate word of understanding. I couldn't have said it better. Thank you.
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Clearly stated!
Thank you!
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Belief and trust in God guide our actions. They are an anchor, always beneficial but especially in adversity. I pray, daily, to always stay on the path, even 'when the going gets tough' or 'the tough gets going' and feel like diverting. Reply
Trust your enemies
Our enemies are all part of us, Always welcoming those whom are spiritual enemies whom are corrupting our society with their deception, to comprehend our (judaism spirituality). Welcoming (them) + (enemies) with our comprehension educating and with kindness always supporting and helping those whom lack education 'Bout 'trust"...trust your enemies for your enemies is us.
Thank you for your past support Chabad.
Eugina Giovanna Herrera
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That’s not a reply. Are you questioning or are you disagreeing? Reply
Belief and Trust
There is something else I sense when I see observant , devout Jews, some thing that no other ' believers ' have.
I sensed it as a child , still cannot find the word for it after many decades .
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Trust in one G-d
Trust in one G-d changes how we all live. In other words, to believe is to believe when you are committing yourself to do or take action. To believe in trust is to trust what you trust in one G-d. I live with epilepsy. I don't give up, I put my trust in one G-d to continue walking forward with my strong will to survive and my strong trust in one G-d.
Thank you
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ALL CAN CHANGE THE WAY WE LIFE Who is a believer? and what does he or she believes in? If the believer in question believe in GOD, it can change the way he or she lives. Both attributes are important. You need to believe to trust Reply
Great! This is great. Thank you so much for posting! Reply
Trust/Love?
Isn't trust always about Love too? Love for the life we've been given? Learning through hardship too, while we trust to embrace it with all it has in it?
Love just because... and .... expect nothing in return?
Knowing man has got free will and that therefore there are wars and divorces? Until they are really aware of what they DO, that it is they that make the mess by wanting to be number 1 themselves? But what would have been the alternative: no free will, slaves? Learning to trust and love life as it comes, by falling and rising no identification with things or people, no dogma's to make absolute, just knowing that we are alive, long to know what love is meant to be and feel more and more how ruach, nefesh, neshama are going with us, as we are developing more awareness?
it remains just a rough sketch but thanks for your Chabad input that makes me try to search for the words.
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"Anonymous" and "Hermann" good points!
Anonymous- You raise an excellent point, indeed that experience does lead to cynicism and skepticism towards ALL "relationships". Possibly an approach would be that of "no expectations " - one which may be liberating and/or empowering because without "expectations " there can be no dissapointments.
To Hermann I would add that Hashem is not immune from being held to account for the contract he made with bnei Yisrael at Sinai. For many people ( including helpless innocent babies ) he has most definitely FAILED to keep His side of the contract.
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Interpersonal relationships & trust With any human relationship, if there are no agreements/contracts as to the obligations of each person in the relationship, then there is no reason to expect ANYTHING from anyone in that relationship! If a partner fails to meet the agreed- upon conditions and therefore doesn't meet the expectations of others, there may be no reason to trust that person's ability to keep future agreements. Reply
trust and deception
So belief and trust may be applied to interpersonal relationship[s as well!? Thus, finding a loving partner, finding all the attributes that enable belief and trust and divine fulfillment should lead to clarity in deciding to believe and trust in a partner!?
So how, after 18 years, can it be a total deception? To trust and be wrong and then suffer immeasurable grief, is simply a prerequesite for never believing or trusting again...So then, how does on heal the soul and move again twoard belief and trust...when the damage is so severe that the healing cannot even take place; much less becoming open ever again.
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Look to the Kings for the answer Ironically, Solomon posted the question about Belief, and I'll point to the first three kings of Israel for the answer. Saul continually floundered. He followed his heart, but not his head. He did what felt good to him rather than what he knew was right. King David had each of those moments - once with Bathsheba and once with the census (in which case he followed his logic and reason rather than his Belief in G-d). King Solomon had all the wisdom of the world yet married wicked women and allowed idols to be raised throughout Israel. Knowledge, understanding and wisdom are great, so is belief, but without the two rightly placed, even a king is headed towards disaster. Reply
'Belief' versus 'Trust'
Belief => The acknowledgement of a POSSIBLE ( but unproven ) reality
Trust => The commitment to relying upon a favorable outcome ( Bitachon) - predetermined by Hashem (Divine Providence) - and is a consequence of absolute KNOWLEDGE of the Goodness of Hashem's intentions (Emunah) NOT the possibility of a reality.
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belief If I remember right the Hebrew meaning for 'believe/belief runs something like: not a mental assent, supporting of, working toward/for, giving one's all to, taking into one's self and doing all to be incorporated with. I may be wrong or not complete in this. Reply
Belief And Trust So true! Reply
Trust in reason.
A criminal (such as a thief and/or a murderer) is oftentimes a person who has foregone their reason.
They, more time then not, lead with the animal soul, desiring to covet that which is not theirs, like a dog stealing a scrap from it's master's plate, and give themselves over to their yetzer hara. They end up in 'Goshen' (in the case of prison, literally) in effect.
Rabbi Freeman, even you once said-'the intellect is necessary in discerning the yetzer hatov' (verbatim quote).
Yaakov was a thief. Why would he steal the birthright of his brother rather then in trusting in the one that G-d had already given him?
What was he thinking?
Of course that was matah Torah; before Torah had been formally accepted by you.
I beg to differ about the mitzvahs: None of them are actually 'chukim'. They all tend to impose and support a heightened consciousness and sensibility to everything you do.
The after effects of receiving Torah.
G-d willing you continue to trust in that.
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belief and trust Belief comes from our minds.....trust comes from our hearts. Reply
We are taught that G-d is and does everything. We will do and we will hear.
So that all of creation is His. Emuna means we trust Him to do what is right and good for us.
If we accept this and trust Him, why do we try to get what we want from Him? If we don’t think we will get what we want, do we badger G-d? I think pretty much everyone has been angry with Him at some point in life. I have, and for several reasons. They are all resolved now, long ago.
Often we think we are guided and know what we need. We make plans, and expect them to go our way. Like children. Sometimes it is naturally difficult, like the present horrible disaster. But the insanity of the hamas, which also means violence, saved our country because they went off plan.
The problem is ego, me, so grab hold of the point of “I am” in you, usually behind your heart, and reach from there to the Divine presence. Then His work for you will be complete. You will be One with Him.