Today’s pasuk of Bitachon comes from Yehezkiel 34,29 וְלֹא־יִהְי֨וּ ע֥וֹד בַּז֙ לַגּוֹיִ֔ם וְחַיַּ֥ת הָאָ֖רֶץ לֹ֣א תֹאכְלֵ֑ם וְיָשְׁב֥וּ לָבֶ֖טַח You will no longer be plundered by the nations of the world. The animals of the field will not eat your bodies. You will sit and dwell in tranquility, וְאֵ֥ין מַחֲרִֽ יד there will be no fear. Those last two words, V’En Machrid/there will be no fear , are seemingly superfluous. I'm sitting with with reliance. All is well, so what is there to tremble about? It's interesting that the words, V’En Machrid show up both in the positive, in the blessings in Vayikrah 26,6 and in the negative, in the curses in Devarim 28, 26. When it comes to the blessings, it says, I will put peace in the land and you will rest, lie down with no trembling, no fear. That's the ultimate blessing. When it comes to the curse, is says, Your carcasses will be the food of the birds and the animals and no animal will be afraid ( of eating Jewish bodies). That's how far it will go. In Yehezkiel, in the positive, it says, there will not be eating and there'll be no fear. So it seems that there is something about V’En Machrid that’s obviously a high point in the future. But as long as we're in this world, in the current status, we're in a status called Machrid . There are always fears. There's always something to tremble about. There's always something to be concerned about. Rav Wolbe, in his essay on psychiatry and religion, on page 65, quotes secular psychologist Martin Heidegger, who says that fear is the most fundamental feeling that exists in the human being. Rav Wolbe says, notwithstanding how much psychoanalysis and psychiatry focuses on fears and phobias, fear is possibly the stigma of our generation. What's the cause? A lack of reliance and confidence in the economy, and the development of nuclear weapons. But he says, without a doubt, the lack of Emuna is also a strong cause for the underlying fears that we have. Our job, he says, is to create an existential feeling of calm, without fear, with this feeling of I'm amongst a Yedid/beloved one, God is my beloved One, I am in this beloved world. I'm in a safe world. Modern psychology says that a lot of the unwanted and obtrusive thoughts that people have comes from an underlying feeling of not being in a safe world. This may be a bitachon class, but as we always say, there's a crossover between psychology and religion. We need to feel like we live in a safe world, and ultimately, we need bitachon to get there. But even with all the bitachon that we have, the world that we live in doesn't feel safe. That's why the pasuk in Yehezkiel, when talking about the beauty of the end of time, uses the words En Machrid/ without fear, which is our pasuk ,. וְיָשְׁב֥וּ לָבֶ֖טַח וְאֵ֥ין מַחֲרִֽ יד We have to look forward to the times when we will live in that perfect world where there are no fears, not of disease (that’s a big one), nor of financial collapse or familial collapse. There is a expression waiting for the next shoe to drop, which basically means something negative and inevitable is going to occur soon. The origin of this phrase dates back to when people lived in tenements where the insulation was poor. When you heard the first shoe come down, you’d be waiting for the next shoe to drop. It means that something is going to happen eventually, that you're really not looking forward to. That is constant dread. That's really what the word Harada is-a dread (although in modern Hebrew, Google translates it as anxiety) . We're looking forward to that perfect world of En Machrid. That's our pasuk of the day.