We are in Pesukei Bitachon, Tehilim 143.8 הַשְׁמִ֘יעֵ֤נִי בַבֹּ֨קֶר ׀ חַסְדֶּךָ֮ כִּֽי־בְךָ֢ בָ֫טָ֥חְתִּי הוֹדִיעֵ֗נִי דֶּֽרֶךְ־ז֥וּ אֵלֵ֑ךְ כִּי־אֵ֝לֶ֗יךָ נָשָׂ֥אתִי נַפְשִֽׁי Let me hear in the morning Your kindness. I relied on You. Tell me the path to take because to You, I gave up my soul. What is this term of giving up your soul, in relation to relying on Hashem? Rabbenu Yonah, in Mishleh 3,26, tells us that one of the levels of Bitachon is called, “ to give your soul up to Hashem, ” This is a high level. הוֹדִיעֵ֗נִי דֶּֽרֶךְ־ז֥וּ אֵלֵ֑ךְ “ I am relying on Hashem to choose the path for me. ” That means I know that everything Hashem does is what's good for me. I know that even if it seems bad, it's a kapara and eventually it will be for good for me, and that whatever Hashem picks for me is better for me than anything I can possibly think of, because I don't know what's good for myself. That's what Iyov said “ Will I only take the good and not the bad?” This is the level where a person says, ‘ Hashem, I'm handing it over to You. I don't know what's good. I don't know what's bad. My opinion doesn't mean anything.’ Again, this is a high level. Most of us are not there. The Hovot Halevavot, in Shaar Heshbon HaNefesh , goes through different things that a person is supposed to think about. The 28th thing to think about comes after you’ve relied on Hashem and given your soul your money, and children to Him, after you’ve given everything you have to God, and then something happens that you don’t like, or you heard something that you don’t like. Shaar Heshbon HaNefesh gives a reframe. Imagine a man gives his friend a house or a field as a gift, and then the one that received the gift decided to knock the house down to rebuild it or just change it in some way. Can the one that gave him the house start complaining? Can he say, “ Why'd you do that?” No. You gave him the house. Now it's his house. He can do with it as he pleases. The Hovot Halevavot says, “ My brother, you just dedicated your soul and your money and everything you have to God. How can you now bemoan what God did? If it doesn't look right to you, calm down and trust the way He's dealing with it. Don't go and renege on what you just gave Him.” That's the way you deal with your fellow man. You gave him the field, you gave the contractor the rights. You told him, “ Figure it out yourself ,” Surely this is so when you're dealing with your Creator. He quotes a pasuk in Hoshea , “ I was directing Ephraim (the Jewish people). I carried him in My hands. And they didn't realize that I healed them.” Rabbenu Yonah brings this pasuk as well, in Shaar Teshuva Shaar 2, אות ד , “ I took Ephraim in My hands. They don't know I'm healing him.” He says this refers to somebody that Hashem is taking care of. He quotes the famous mashal of the father, rebuking the son that he still has hope for. He doesn't rebuke the son that he gave up on. Rabbbeu Yonah says this is the mistake that people make when we, so to say, give ourselves over to God and things turn wrong . I heard a great story (I can’t verify whether it’s true) once from Rabbi Ades. I may have told it in the past, but it fits in nicely. In the early years of the state of Israel, they brought in the Yemenite population. The Yemenites had been previously protected from the western civilized world and lived a simple life for hundreds, if not thousands, of years of Yemen. When they boarded the airplanes, they thought they were on wings of eagles. There was an older Yemenite man who had very sharp pains in the stomach. He went to the local hospital but they said, “ You don't have insurance. You have to go to Hupat Holim and become a member.” So he followed their instructions and became a member. He later went back to the hospital where they discovered that he had severe appendicitis. They put him under and removed his appendix. He woke up with his family all around him, hooked up to all kinds of machines. Groggily, he said, “ What ki