We continue in Pesukeh Tehilim- letter Vav . Todays pasuk, Tehilim 9,11, is familiar to many because it's part of our prayers. וְיִבְטְח֣וּ בְ֭ךָ יוֹדְעֵ֣י שְׁמֶ֑ךָ כִּ֤י לֹֽא־עָזַ֖בְתָּ דֹרְשֶׁ֣יךָ יְהֹוָֽה They rely on You, those that know Your name, because You have not forsaken those that seek You. Orchot Sadikim , in the section on Simha , tells us, based on this pasuk, that the building block of bitachon is Emunah. Without Emuna, you cannot have bitachon. As our pasuk says, וְיִבְטְח֣וּ בְ֭ךָ יוֹדְעֵ֣י שְׁמֶ֑ךָ / Those who rely on You know your name. They know Your name means they recognize Your greatness and Your strength and believe in You with all their hearts. With that belief, they can rely on You. Reliance is higher than belief. Belief is, so to say, a potential state. I know what He can do. Relying on Him is a maximum - we rely on Him to do. That's an important distinction that many are not familiar with. Our main lesson from this pasuk is from the Elder of Kelm. In his essay 9,95 on Bereshit , he discusses the pasuk where Hashem tells Abraham, ‘I know him, ’ which Rashi says means I love him , and one of the signs of love is that you want to be intimately involved in that person's life. Why do I love him? Because I know he's going to continue teaching his son the proper ways, the Derech Hashem. The Elder of Kelm adds the following important principle: He says the main success of man is knowledge of Hashem. Not because you're going to get a reward, but just the nature of knowing God brings with it success. It's not a secondary outcome. Rather, knowledge of God is an immediate success. He explains that knowledge of God, to know God, means to know He's good and that He's constantly doing good. As the Pasuk in Tehilim 89,3 says, Olam Hesed Yibaneh/God built the world of kindness and His kindness and goodness fills the world. Every creature has what it needs. And not just the basic needs, but additional luxuries in an overwhelming way. It’s not just food and water but healing and all kind of delicacies. And the whole goal of creation, with all of those creatures, is just for man. God doesn’t need man. It's all just to be good to man. When you know all of that, you realize, by looking into the world, how kind God is. And once you know God, God knows you. That's the system, as it says regarding Abraham Avinu, I know him . I know him because he knows Me. And he says, that's already a success, because, if you know God, then immediately you're going to understand. If I know God, I'm already in a situation of success because God knows me. What is better than being under the intimate watch of God? Like the pasuk says, God knows the ways of the righteous. It’s not what's going to be, it’s what is right now. If I know Him, He knows me. What better place to be? And he says, that is our pasuk וְיִבְטְח֣וּ בְ֭ךָ יוֹדְעֵ֣י שְׁמֶ֑ךָ Once you know Hashem, and you know Hashem knows you, He's right on top of you. He's right there to rely on. And you know, ָ כִּ֤י לֹֽא־עָזַ֖בְתָּ דֹרְשֶׁ֣יךָ יְהֹוָֽה God doesn't forsake those people that aren't Dorshei Hashem in search for Hashem. Like it says throughout Tehilim, such as in 105,4 דִּרְשׁ֣וּ יְהֹוָ֣ה וְעֻזּ֑וֹ בַּקְּשׁ֖וּ פָנָ֣יו תָּמִֽיד׃ Search, Hashem in His strength, constantly look for His face. It's interesting that the word Doresh means to search for . It doesn't mean you found anything. Just the fact that you're searching is already something. God doesn't forsake those that search for Him. There's a famous mashal , about a great Hasidic Rebbi whose daughter was playing hide and go seek. She came to her father crying and explained that they were playing hide and go seek. “ And I picked a hiding spot that was so good, nobody found me. They just have up and forgot about me.” The Rebbi heard that and burst out crying. His Hasidim were surprised. Why was the Rebbi crying? It was only a game. The Rebbi explained, I'm not crying over her game. I'm crying because Hashem hides Himself an