Welcome to our bitachon series. We are now going through shaar bechina in the Chovos HaLevavos . And he told us that there are three obstacles from us enjoying life in this world. We'll repeat them one more time. Obstacle number one is, we always want more than we have, so we don't appreciate what we have. Obstacle number two is that we are used to what we have. We already take it for granted. And obstacle number three is, things don't always go right for us and therefore, we don't appreciate our lives. Now, all those things are incorrect. And the job of shaar bechina is to find Hashem's wisdom in creation and see that he's wise and knows what he's doing and therefore is taking care of us as well. And he ends this introductory chapter by saying therefore, anyone that has wisdom and understanding has a responsibility to awaken those people that don't understand God's goodness and to direct them to understand and use their sechel to appreciate what they have. And he goes on to say that there are many times that people possess wonderful things and they're miserable because they don't understand and appreciate what they have. And when you awaken them and make them realize what they have and what they were missing, they will start being appreciative to God, they'll be thankful to God, and they will get enjoyment and pleasure in this world and in the next. That's why it's our responsibility to help out those poor souls that don't know what they already have. This is an important concept that we can have something if we don't know about it, we don't have it. And a story is told about by Rabbi Criesworth of Antwerp that he was during the war time, there was a man that gave him his Swiss bank account passwords. He was a wealthy man. He didn't know if he would survive the war, and he shared them with the rabbi. And he told them, if you ever find my son, let him know. And that's the seemingly the beginning and end of the story. The man was perished in the in the war, and we're before the internet and search engines. How is he ever going to find this man's son if he survived? Sure enough, many years later, he's in a shul, and he sees a guy that looks just like that fellow. And he approaches him, and sure enough, he's his son. This man was eking out a living. And he shared with him the information, and he was a multi-millionaire overnight. The truth is, he wasn't a multi-millionaire overnight. He had always been a multi-millionaire. He was just wasn't aware of what he had, and therefore he lived the life of a pauper. And that is us sometimes. We have so many great things going for us, so many things to appreciate, we just don't know about them, and therefore we're miserable. In our siddur in the morning, there's a section called korbanos . There are a lot of nice things there besides korbanos . Talks about Akeidas Yitzchak . And there's a beautiful section that talks about man's frailty and weakness and it ends off on a positive note. But we, the children of your covenant, the children of Avraham that you loved, seed of Yitzchak of the Akeidah , the congregation of Yaakov your first born, you loved us, you're happy with us. And therefore, we have a responsibility to thank, to praise, to uplift, to give song and praise and thanks to your great name. And we have a responsibility to sing a song every single day. Ashreinu , how fortunate we are. ma tov chelkeinu , how good is our lot. ma na'im goraleinu , how sweet is our portion. ומה יפה מאוד ירושתנו. And how extremely beautiful is our inheritance. That means we all have this inheritance. We're all no different than that man walking around with Swiss bank accounts who didn't know about it. We all have Swiss bank accounts. We have our inheritance of what it means to be a Jew. We possess a lot. And fortunately when we get up in the morning and go to sleep at night, and when we go to shul and we go to Beit Midrash and we say Shema Yisrael every single day. How fortunate we are. But we're walking around not appreciating what we have. Now, forget about our spiritual benefits, which we'll get to. Even our physical benefits, our bodies, the value that we have there, we don't realize it, we don't appreciate it, and therefore we're not happy. And therefore it's the responsibility of the people that do know, Chovot HaLevavot is one of those people, and to share it with everybody else. And I'm just following in the direction of the Chovot HaLevavot , and I'm going to share it as well. And you should continue and share it with your people. Because that's, we're going to see tomorrow our responsibility to share this.