We continue with lessons from the pasuk:
בטחו בה׳ עדי עד
כי בי-ה ה׳ סור עולמים
Rely on Hashem forever,
Because God (with these two letters Yud and Heh) created the worlds
The Gemara says that whoever relies on Hashem, God is a refuge for him, in this world and the next world.
Why does it mention this world and the next world?
The Maharal, in his sefer Netivot Olam (chapter 1), on the topic of bitachon, says that sometimes there is a person who has very bad Mazal (of course, we are able to go above Mazal to break a bad Mazel, but such a thing exists), and he might think it’s hopeless, but no- בטחו בה׳ עדי עד Rely on Hashem forever
Since God created this world and the next (with those two letters), He can go forever.
What does forever mean?
God can break out of this world and get into what he calls the Upper World, Olam HaElyon, where everything is good. In the Berachot of the Amida, we say El Elyon…
There is a world of Olam HaElyon, where it’s not just Gadol, but Gomel Hasadim- only goodness is there.
The Maharal says that even if a person has a bad Mazal, that Mazal is only in this world.
This is why Hashem told Avraham Avinu, “Leave your astrology and stargazing.” He lifted him, “above the stars,“ which means that there is a world above the stars, out of the control of the stars. When a person relies on Hashem, in his words, “he reaches that world called Olam HaElyon.”
As we have discussed recently, this pasuk says that God created the worlds with a yud and a heh; This world with a heh, and the other world with a yud.
The “other world,” is the Olam HaElyon.
So even if you might be limited by a certain Mazal in the lower world, if you can break out of the confines of this lower world, you can enter the world of Olam HaElyon, where everything is good.
This is what it means that Hashem becomes the refuge of the Baal Bitachon. He is his protection, by getting him into Olam HaElyon.
The Maharal ends with, “Understand this.”
He wants us think about this.
Imagine closing your eyes and leaving behind all the Mazal of this world, breaking through and entering Olam HaElyon.
That is why the pasuk says
וְהַבּוֹטֵחַ בַּה׳ חֶסֶד יְסוֹבְבֶנּוּ׃
Someone who relies on God (whether he is a Sadik or a Rasha, if he trusts in Hashem), kindness will surround him. This kindness is the Hesed that comes from Olam HaElyon.
In that world of Olam Elyon, there is only Hesed. If you break through to get to that world, then you are in the world of only Hesed.
In this world, we have a good and bad, but there is another world of only good.
Through Bitachon, we can reach into that world and bring down kindness.
And even if a person is not worthy and has sins, that is only in this world where there is good and bad.
But you can break out of that into Olam Elyon, a world of El Elyon Gomel Hasadim Tovim.
That is how the Maharal explains our pasuk
בטחו בה׳ עדי עד כי בי-ה ה׳ סור עולמים
Rely on God Forever - high up.
God made two worlds
And you can get to the world that is only kindness, and bring down and be surrounded by that kindness.
What an unbelievable concept, and what an unbelievable way to read into the pesukim.
Have a wonderful day.