We are discussing Bitachon as it relates to health. The Baal Bitachon has an advantage over the Alchemist who may be comfortable in his finances, but there’s another portfolio we have to acknowledge.
Imagine a man with a diversified income. He has retail stores, a wholesale business, owns a building and other real estate.
Then he opened a winery in Israel, an olive press as well and has also begun to get into the service industry as well. He is making $10 million a year. But he looks over his records and sees that the olive press lost $400,000 last year. He starts to cry about it and his friends think he’s nuts. Crying about the loss at the olive press? What about everything else he has?
Here’s the nimshal: We complain when our knees hurt. But what about stomachs, our lungs- those are working great! Why complain about the knee? We are a business-minded community. We can reframe and look at it as a business: This knee hurts but all my other divisions are doing great: digestion, respiration, are all doing great!!
As I previously mentioned I was recently at the doctor. While waiting, I was fascinated by a screen they have that broadcasts a steady stream of health facts and statistics. What an intriguing wealth of information! For example, I learned that we have 20, 0000 genes in our bodies.
136 genes just for our sense of smell! Then there’s taste, sight, etc. The intricacies of the body are mind boggling!
20,000 genes we inherited from our parents and grandparents. We can’t say we didn’t get a big inheritance! We got some really great genes. A nice beard? Thank your grandfather. Good eyebrows? Genes! Appreciate them, some people have to laser theirs. Nice hair? Those genes are worth a lot!
So your knees ache and you can’t play ball like you used to. Why you get upset? You have a lot of other divisions in the company that are great! 20,000 genes and you’re complaining about your knees? It’s like the guy crying about the olive press. Rabbi Miller teaches this, and now we are learning it from Hovot HaLevavot.
We have our gene division, our other divisions, our health. We own multiple divisions in that factory.
The Baal Bitachon has all of that.