The Trust Factor
A daily lesson that focuses on achieving unparalleled success in life using ancient wisdom in modern times.
We will be discussing critical concepts as they are laid out in the book Sha'ar Habitachon - The Gate of Trust. Written 1000 years ago, the author reminds us of the values and wisdom that have allowed humanity to thrive throughout history.
The concept of trusting in a higher power that exists purely for our benefit, puts us in the drivers seat with absolute confidence to achieve greatness.
Eliminate: Fear, Hatred, Anxiety, Depression, Jealousy, Greed...forever!
* Note that some terminology will be in the original Hebrew or Aramaic which I will always follow with the English translation.
The Trust Factor
Episode 184 - When You Know God Runs The World, No One is Your Enemy
A wrong order, a worried clerk, and a client deadline hanging by a thread—then a surprising choice: release the blame and trust the timing. We take a small moment at a metal shop and use it to unpack a much bigger idea: how faith in God’s governance can quiet anxiety, soften anger, and transform our relationships.
We’re nearing the end of chapter five and teasing what season two will bring, but the heart of today’s conversation is the sixth trait of trust. People who live with genuine trust don’t pretend to be perfect; they practise humility under pressure. That steadiness earns respect because it shows up in real situations—when shipments are late, when apologies are awkward, when reputation is on the line. Instead of hunting for culprits, we choose responsibility without rage. We ask what this moment asks of us, and we let outcomes land where they belong.
We also face the mirror: what grows when trust is absent. Envy whispers “must be nice” and friendships cool. Blame becomes a reflex—at colleagues, at parents long gone, at a faceless system—and the result is bitterness that isolates us further. We examine entitlement and slipping work ethic as symptoms of a deeper spiritual drift. Trust realigns effort: we give our best with clean hands, accept results without resentment, and try again tomorrow. People become messengers rather than makers of our fate, which restores kindness and courage to daily life.
If you’re tired of the blame loop and hungry for a steadier way to live, this one’s for you. Listen now, share it with a friend who needs the reminder, and subscribe so you don’t miss the continuation. If it resonated, leave a quick review—it helps more people find the show and join the conversation.
Until next time, have a spectacular day!
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Trust Factor Podcast. This is the only podcast that is going to guarantee your success when you implement its divine age old teachings. Right now we are finishing up or getting close to finishing chapter number five. And guess what? We're getting close to finishing the entire book, which means that season two is on the horizon and it promises to be bigger and better than season one. As you know, these things get better and stronger as we go. So I will update you and inform you of what season two is going to look like when I have more information for you. Right now, though, we're summarizing the seven traits, the seven variables between individuals who have trust and a trusting relationship with their creator. They know who runs the show, they know who runs the world, they know who makes choices, and those who do not. Yesterday, just as an aside, it popped into my head. I ran into a metal store called Metal Supermarkets really close by over here. And I'm often in there picking up metal parts here and there for small projects that I'm working on or that I need for the plant. And I was waiting on an item. It came last week, was ordered on Thursday, came on Friday. It was the wrong one. And the really sweet kid that works there, nice kid, got his head on straight, couldn't apologize more for putting me out. I said, Hey, it's okay. Don't worry about it. It's not your fault. Reordered it, new part came in yesterday, went to pick it up again, apologizing profusely. I said, Hey, it's not your fault. Don't worry about it. There's a big boss that runs the show. And you could see that all of his worries just melted away. Because I was sincere. I really don't blame this kid. What's it his? He made the order. He put it in properly. The place he ordered from sent him the wrong item. Wasn't his fault. Okay, move on. There's a boss that runs the world, kid. It's not all you, but you could see before I told him that he was in a really bad place. He I mean he's a nice kid and he really felt like he dropped the ball. Right? When you don't have faith in God, when you don't understand that God runs this world and everything is perfect, I know that. He didn't know that. He's a simple kid. He's not a religious kid. I know that, so I tried to impart it on him. It's got nothing to do with him, and it's got everything to do with me. I wasn't supposed to get that part yesterday. It wasn't supposed to arrive, not on Friday and not yesterday. Why? Because it was the perfect thing for me. Do I know exactly why? Do I know exactly how that was perfect, that delay? Which, by the way, the reason I was buying it was for an item that I'm selling to a client which is already severely delayed, and it's a new client, so it reflects badly on me. But at the end of the day, I know it's perfect. I know with absolute clarity that it is perfect. Why? Because just as God gave it to me yesterday, he could have given it to me on Thursday. I didn't have to wait for it to get ordered, right? So at the end of the day, I got it yesterday. It was supposed to be yesterday because that was the perfect day for it. And that is what I tried to impart on my friend who sold it to me. Moving forward, we said right now that the sixth difference is that an individual who trusts in God, who knows that God runs this world, who knows that outcomes are out of our hands and only in his hands, that individual is loved by many, honored, and respected by many. It doesn't mean that they're perfect. Very big difference here, people. It does not mean perfection. It does not mean that just because somebody's wearing a keeper and a beard and a and the outfit, that they are a role model for society, that they are holding on a very high level. Absolutely not. Two things. Number one, they're on a path. They're on a growth path, just like the rest of us are, except that they've chosen to speed up their path. They've chosen to put a little bit more muscle into their path of growth than most people. And number two is specifically because they are wearing the kipa and the beard and the outfit and doing their best to be outwardly Jewish, they have an even bigger evil inclination than the rest of us because we've said the bigger they are, the harder they fall. But really, people who notice them, good people who notice them and see that this is a religious individual who is on a path of growth, automatically associate trustworthiness and respect and admiration for this individual. Yes, they understand he's still a human being. Yes, they understand he's still gonna make mistakes. Yes, they understand that the secular world can't wait to highlight anything done by the religious world and put it on the front page of the newspaper because boy does that make them feel good. But people know this, and they know that each individual is his own individual. And just because others behave badly doesn't mean that they do, and the same applies for everybody. Now we continue. One who does not trust in God is the exact opposite. Listen to this, he has no friend. You hear? Why doesn't he have any friends? Because he constantly covets what others have and is jealous of them. Don't think people don't recognize when you come in sour, or even when you're trying to pretend that you're not, when you're always judging, when you're always the guy saying, Oh, it must be nice to have X, Y, or Z. Oh, it must be nice to be able to do that or to go away as much as you do, or to have that wife, or to have so many children, or to have such a big house, or to have such a nice car, oh, it must be nice. And you don't necessarily have to say those words, oh, it must be nice. It's enough to feel it inside of you. And when you felt it enough inside of you and it becomes part of who you are, those who are around you will feel it from you. It will drip off of you. They can't help but feel it. He imagines that any good that they attain, that this individual attains, was diverted from him, that their livelihoods come at the expense of his living. In other words, everybody else is making a living over here. These guys are all working the system and they're betraying me. They're not incorporating me into this. Why aren't they including me? Or why are they specifically keeping me out of this? He blames other people. He finds fault in everybody else, or that they at least have it in their power to help him attain his desires, but are not doing so. You hear? It's always everybody else's fault, my friends. We're living in that society. All you need to do is be alive today to recognize that we're living in an entitled society where people, if they don't get what they desire, the first response is to blame somebody else. Oftentimes, oftentimes the blame falls on the parents. My parents didn't do a good enough job raising me. My parents weren't good enough parents, they didn't love me enough, they were too aggressive with me. They did all these different things that have attributed to me not being successful in life. But wait a second, you're 40 years old, you're 50 years old, you're 60 years old, your parents are long dead. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? What's with this blame game? It is such an easy mechanism to be able to put the blame on somebody else because it requires less from you. You understand? That's where we're holding. We're holding in a society of lazy and entitled individuals, emotionally and intellectually lazy as well as physically lazy. And I don't think COVID helped us. I don't think this stay work at home idea helped us. I think it just contributed to what is now a very difficult economy that we're living through right now because people don't have the work ethic that even I grew up with not that long ago, let alone previous generations from other countries who come to these Western societies, which still have today, some of them still have a work ethic, which is a lot of the reason why governments bring them in because they understand that we don't have that anymore. We need to bring in people who are less fortunate and willing to do the work that we once were. If something bad should happen to him or a mishap should occur to his property or children, he again imagines that others are at fault, or that they at least have the means to banish the harm and dispel the misfortune from him if they should choose so, but they do not care enough about him to do so. Since he harbors these delusions of being victimized by others, he comes to despise them, and he speaks negatively about them, curse them and hate them. You hear this? This is unbelievable. It happens a lot, my friends. There are people who are just bitter. They're always bitter, they're always negative. These people you can be sure do not have a relationship with their creator. They don't recognize that there is a boss that runs this world. They don't recognize that there is a loving father in heaven who loves them and wants the best for them, and that anything that they get is great, and more than that, that even the things that they don't get are a blessing. It's a loving father who's keeping it away from you. Not only can you not have it, you should not have it. You should not even want it because it's not part of your plan. In short, a person's trust in God is what shapes their attitude towards people. And as a result of his positive feelings for others or negative feelings for others, mutual either confidence and friendship develop or the opposite. Depending on how much trust we have in God, how much knowledge and experience we know that everything starts and stops with him, and that people are just here to fill their jobs and they are intermediaries, they are messengers. The more we know that and connect to that idea and make it part of who we are, the more we can establish good, healthy, loving relationships. The more the opposite occurs. Where we think everything is coincidence, where we think we are capable, we are responsible, we are the deciders of outcomes, the more difficult it is to maintain relationships because we're either blaming everybody else or we're giving ourselves a pat on the back. It doesn't work that way, my friends. It's a recipe for disaster. At all costs, we need to try and avoid this and recognize that there is a loving father who loves you infinitely and wants to do for you equally infinitely. Have an amazing day, my friends. We'll continue tomorrow.
