I'm so excited, we're about to wrap up the outline of the sections we're going to be discussing, outlining the Torah sources of the most important topic in our lives, bitachon. We're going to begin today's session with part 14 that we're going to be outlining. And in many ways, this is perhaps the most important section that needs to be highlighted. What is the true reward for having bitachon? Now why this is such an important question to discuss is because as we've alluded to, there are many different forms of bitachon. And one of the types of bitachon that we're going to discover together is that one can rely on Hashem to such an extent that Hashem will come through for you for exactly what you desire in the way that you desire. And if you do it in the right way, that you're 100% reliant on Hashem with full sincerity, He will for sure give it to you in the way that you desire.
But something which is much more important than that is that the true reward for having bitachon is much greater than anything you can achieve or receive in this world. So let me give you an example to illustrate this concept. Let's say I want to have bitachon in Hashem to give me 10 million dollars. Now if I do it correctly, which again is not an easy task because bitachon is the point of our lives, and if it was just as easy as going to a vending machine and putting in a coin, then that would defeat the whole purpose because this is the point of our lives. But let's say I reached such a high level that I have absolute sincere bitachon in Hashem to receive 10 million dollars. Now I might think that the true prize is receiving 10 million dollars, but in truth, much, much, much greater than receiving those 10 million dollars is the reward that I will receive both in this world and especially in the next world for just trying to take a step forward in my bitachon journey.
And the reason it's so important to highlight this is because regardless of what we actually achieve in our bitachon journey, if we are trying to take a step forward, we are achieving way, way greater than receiving 10 million dollars. And of course, we'll discuss it more extensively when we get to B’ezrat Hashem, but for our purposes right now, it's important to internalize that any small step that we take forward in our bitachon journey is achieving for us way greater than anything beyond our imagination. And why it's so important to remember this is because although to reach the highest levels of bitachon, let's say backtracking to our example before, I have bitachon in Hashem that I want those 10 million dollars, something which seems so far-fetched and I work very, very hard on my reliance and everything that entails as we'll discuss B’ezrat Hashem.
And let's say after everything's said and done, I don't get the 10 million dollars. Not, God forbid, because bitachon doesn't work. As we'll learn, bitachon works, period. But the reason it might not work was maybe I was not fully sincere. Maybe I was only 99% sincere in my bitachon endeavor. And as we'll learn, in order for it to be an absolute logarithm that Hashem will for sure come through for you, it has to be 100% reliance on Hashem. Now one might feel, but how am I going to get to 100%? What if I'm only 99%? Now again, this is why this is so, so, so vital to remember that the true reward for bitachon is way greater than receiving whatever you might be trying to receive. Because as we know, this world is temporary. Eventually, we're all going to move to a much greater world for eternity. And eternity is forever.
So as the Sfarim teach, whatever reward we can imagine for ourselves in this world is not even comparable to one moment of the true pleasure we'll receive in the next world. And the efforts that we make in our bitachon journey are one of the greatest things we can do towards achieving for ourselves the greatest places in eternity. And therefore, let us constantly remind ourselves that one of the greatest possible things that we can do is just to make an effort to grow in our emunah, in our bitachon, regardless of what we actually achieve.
Even if we feel like we've been working on bitachon for so long, and we've barely grown in the endeavor, if we've been making an effort to do so, it's as if we've done everything. B’ezrat Hashem, in the next session, we're going to wrap up the introduction of the contents of bitachon. And thereafter, we move forward to the Torah sources themselves, and with Hashem's help, move to more clarity in our bitachon journey.
