Episode 44 - Feed Your Soul, It's Your Operating System

What if the moments that break your plans are the moments that build your soul? We dive headfirst into a challenging, freeing idea: everything the Creator does is for the best—not almost everything—and the gap between those two is where most of us lose our footing. Using real-life stories and a clear, no-fluff approach, we explore how to move from understanding-based comfort to relationship-based trust, and why that shift can change how you meet stress, loss, and uncertainty.

We unpack the danger of “almost emuna”—that polished 99% belief that crumbles when money tightens or health falters. Instead of chasing explanations, we talk about training trust like a muscle through steady Torah learning with a teacher you connect with. That practice gives your soul fuel, lifts your mood, and prepares you for bigger tests long before they arrive. You’ll hear a grounded parable about getting a car towed after morning prayers and how reframing setbacks can reveal mercy, protection, or needed course-correction, even when no clear reason appears.

Across the episode we keep circling one practical path: act with integrity, set your intention before God, and release the outcome without bitterness. We discuss why emuna truly begins where the brain stops, how to reduce anxiety and anger by surrendering control, and what it means to see this world as a corridor rather than the destination. If you’ve been hungry for a faith that holds when logic fails, this conversation offers tools, language, and courage to keep walking with calm joy.

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Chapters

• 0:12 Season Two And Study Challenge
• 1:08 Why Seeking Matters
• 1:28 Find A Teacher And Learn
• 3:23 Everything Means Everything
• 5:11 The 99 Percent Trap
• 7:34 Where Emuna Truly Begins
• 9:22 The Car Towed Parable
• 11:21 Live With Trust And Joy
• 12:12 Closing And Community Invitation

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:12

Welcome to the Trust Factor Podcast, the only podcast that guarantees your success when you implement its divine age old teachings. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Trust Factor Podcast. This is another episode of season two where we're covering off The Garden of Amuna, an amazing book, a manual for life, that I picked up ten copies, by the way, not too long ago in Israel, giving them out every week. But we're going through it and we're making amazing progress. We're talking about key principles, ideas that the world is not going to share with you. You're not going to hear about these ideas on CNN or Fox News. You're not going to learn these things in school, not high school, not university. You're not going to hear about these things unless you go out and actively seek this information. That's how it's created. The world is created that way. You need to seek him out. When you seek him out, you will find him in a huge, huge way. And that is to say that if you're listening to this podcast, bravo. Give yourself a pat on the back. It's very important, but it's not enough. It's simply not enough. It's 10, 15 minutes of your day, which is wonderful. Again, I'm not minimizing it. You're doing an amazing job by listening and wanting to grow. But if you really want to put it in gear and get this car rolling, then you need to find a rabbi or a Rebutzin, somebody who can teach you, somebody who's qualified, and somebody who you connect to on an emotional level. And go and learn with them at least once or twice a week. If not more, you have an obligation to learn daily. It is a natural high. You want a natural high? Go and learn Torah. If you're learning from the right person, I guarantee you you will walk out of your class feeling like you are on an entirely different level. Nothing compares. It's your energy boost. It's your shot of adrenaline. It's the fuel for your soul. Your soul runs your body, my friends. When you're gone from this world after 120 years, it's because your soul left your body. The body remains. Even a young, healthy person who has an accident and passes, goes to the next world. That body, which is physically fit and capable and can and can perform amazing feats. Maybe they're an Olympic athlete. It lies dormant. It can't function. It's worthless. Why? Because it's Nishama, the soul, the operating system, is gone. Now you have to feed that operating system. You have to feed your nishama. That's learning Torah. And if you know what I'm talking about, you know. If you're nodding your head right now, it's because you learn Torah and you know exactly what I'm talking about. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's time to learn. Trust me, up until now, you've gotten a lot of good from me. I've taken nothing from you. I've only given, and I'm giving you the ultimate secret right now to success in your life. Find a rabbi, find a Rabbitzin if you're a woman, and sit and learn at least once or twice a week. Ideally, much more than that. Getting back into the book, everything it says, not almost everything, that's the subject. What's he saying? Everything, not almost everything. He's saying that everyone must internalize the concept that everything that the creator does is for the best, and not nearly everything. Not everything but the things that I can't wrap my head around. In fact, the exact opposite is true. Even if a soldier is in a battlefield surrounded and being attacked and bombarded in all directions, that soldier has to stop and say to himself, I know that the creator does everything for the best. If he says, I know that he does everything for the best except for this, this can't be good. There's no way that I can interpret this as meaning good, then he's lost the point. He's missed it. He doesn't have real amuna. Even when in principle they accept the notion that everything that God does is for their best, their almost amuna is what's holding them back. You understand? This almost amuna, it's just about it's almost 100%, but it's not, it's 99%. As long as it's not tested beyond their maximum comfort level. As soon as you tap into my money, as soon as you make me financially challenged, suddenly I don't know if there's a God. Suddenly, I have to blame somebody else, somebody who's physical, somebody who I can attack. As soon as you attack my loved one's health, suddenly I can't accept it. How can you go after my parent or my child who I love so much? How could you hit them with such an illness? And you want me to believe that there is goodness behind this? You've lost the point, my friends. It's very easy for me to say these things. These are just words. And I know that when you're in that situation, it's night and day. But I'm here to tell you, just like I told you yesterday, and just like I've told you many times, it's a muscle. And the only way to prepare for life's challenges is by working on that muscle when times are good, when things are going well, when you're faced with small challenges, challenges that are easily surmountable, but you don't take on these challenges without your creator. When you've been working on yourself day after day, year after year, you've grown in your imuna than anything. It doesn't matter how tragic it seems on the surface, absolutely everything is accepted by you with love and joy because you know who's pulling the strings, and you know that we know nothing. We think that this world is the be-all end all, that it is the ultimate purpose. It's not. When you get that into your head, when you've understood that, that this is just a tool to utilize to be able to build your next world and everybody around it, including your parents, your children, your grandparents, when you've understood that they're in the same boat as you are, that this is a challenge and a test for them as much as it is for you, and that they are just passing through, then everything makes sense. But if as soon as a tribulation hits your income, ruins your plans, makes you a little bit uncomfortable, your amuna completely crumbles, then you have what could be seen as 99% amuna, which really means that you lack 100%. You're 100% lacking amuna, since everything comes for the creator, with no exception, and it's for the ultimate good and not almost everything. Now, if I give you a 99% truth, but 1% of it is a lie, then it's not true. It doesn't matter that 99% of it is true. I've given you a 1% lie, and therefore all of the 99% that preceded it is no longer valid. You understand? It's the same idea. If you're only happy with 99% of the way God runs the world, but you're not happy with 1% or 2% or 5%, then you're not happy with him. Period. You think you can do a better job at running this world. Understanding that a given situation is for the best is not emuna. You hear this? Let me repeat that. Understanding being the critical word, that a given situation is for the best is not emuna. Why? Because the implication is that I understand it. And therefore, it's okay. It's something that I can absorb. It's something that can make sense to me. I understand it, therefore I'm okay with it. That's not emuna. That's emuna in yourself, maybe, but that's not having a relationship with your creator. From a spiritual standpoint, comprehension, understanding is a much lower level than Emuna. At the point where the brain no longer understands how the creator is doing everything for the very best, that my friends, is where Amuna begins. Emuna begins, it kicks in when the brain kicks out. Very important principle, guys. That's the biggest test of Emuna. Being okay with something because it makes sense, wonderful. You don't need God for that. You don't need anybody for that. It makes sense to you. Great. So you subscribe, you're all in. You deserve no credit because there's nothing difficult, there's no challenge. I understand it, I've analyzed it, it makes sense, I'm moving forward. Wonderful, good. There's no test. The test comes when you don't know what's going on and why it's happening. When it goes against logic and reason, when it flies in the face of what you want, when it challenges the outcome that you want, and then you say, I accept. I'm rolling forward, despite the fact that I don't know, despite the fact that it doesn't align with my expectations, I'm still rolling forward because I know who's running the show and I know everything is perfect, even though it doesn't feel right, even though I'm uncomfortable, even though I'm outside of my skin, I'm still running with it because I know what I'm doing is correct. At the end of the day, I'm doing his will. I did that analysis. Shiviti Yashabna Negdita meed. I contemplated God before I made this move. I know it's a good move. I'm making the move. It's difficult for me, and I'm being challenged. Simple example, like we gave many times. I decided to start going to shul in the morning. I went to shul, I get there, my car gets towed, and I'm out hundreds of dollars, and my whole day's shot. Now I can easily say to myself, it doesn't make sense. I came to shul to connect to my creator. I came to pray with a minion with ten men to be able to connect to my creator because that's what he wants from me at the end of the day. It's a mitzvah. And I did it and I got punished. I did it and I got hurt. It cost me money, it cost me my aggravation. It's hard to swallow, it's hard to understand, never mind to accept. That, my friends, is when your imunda kicks in. That is when you recognize that it's the same God who brought you into this world and who gave you all the pleasures and joys and all the things that aligned with your expectations. It's the same God who got your car towed. And therefore, just like the father who knocked the cup of bleach out of the kid's hand before he drank it, there is nothing that my father would do for me that would hurt me. On the contrary, he wants my very best. And therefore, I know with absolute certainty that it was the best thing that could have ever happened that that car was towed. Because God forbid, had I gotten into that car and driven away, there would have been a serious tragedy. Or I was supposed to give that money to Tstaka, but I didn't because I'm not careful with how much I give. And I really owed 10 times or 100 times that amount, and God, in his divine mercy, allowed me to get off with$500. You understand? That's the outlook. When you have that outlook and you apply it to every situation in your life, nothing slows you down. Nothing gets you upset. Nothing makes you angry or sad. You don't have the negative emotions. You roll through life happy, go lucky. There's a spring in your step. I can tell you that every time I go to learn Torah and I exit the building, there is a spring in my step. You explain that. It's very simple. You're connecting back to your ultimate purpose and the only truth that exists in this world. My friends, follow it. Don't delay. If you're still thinking about it, contemplating, don't know what you're waiting for, find yourself a rabbi, find yourself a Rebitsin, and start making these principles, these teachings real in your life. Have an amazing day, my friends. We chat tomorrow. Thank you for spending time with us on the Trust Factor Podcast. If you've heard something today that moved you, save this episode and share it with someone who might need to hear it. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss upcoming conversations that challenge, empower, and uplift. And if you're on social media, connect with us. Leave your thoughts. Drop a quote that resonated with you. Hashtag the TrustFactor Podcast. Until next time, keep growing in your trust and keep living with purpose. I'm Jesse Revivo, and this has been the Trust Factor Podcast. Thanks for listening.