Look how Moshe speaks to Melech Edom. He calls himself a brother, he recounts Klal Yisroel’s Tzaros, and how Hashem saved them. Doesn’t Moshe realize that he’s speaking to the descendants of Eisav HaRasha, about whom it says: ֹרתוְָבֶועְ יא א עמוס חַצֶð רהָמְָשׁ His hatred lasts forever! “Eisav So'nei L’Yaakov is a “Halacha”. If anything, Melech Edom would be overjoyed hearing the Tzaros of Klal Yisroel!
We find the same thing by Dovid, who was warm and trusting to the evil Naval HaCarmeli, and he calls himself: “Your son”! And Dovid trusts Shaul, even after Shaul threw a spear at him! In contrast, look at Doson and Aviram who were always suspicious of Moshe Rabeinu their savior. They go against him, even at the expense of putting their lives in danger.
Just as they didn’t trust people, so too they didn’t trust Hashem. They left over from the Mon; out of fear they wouldn’t have any tomorrow. A negative person is in his own warped world. When they were angry at Moshe, they complained how they missed Mitzrayim, an Eretz Zavas Chalav u’Dvash. How ludicrous!
By the negater, anything that’s not his is considered Zavas Chalav u’Dvash. And whatever he has, is worthless. He lives in a total Dimyon of mistrust and suspicion. Negative thinking is loaded with all kinds of Dimyonos and problems that aren’t real and will never happen.
Today Is the Tomorrow You Worried About Yesterday
Despite the fact that things work out in your life again and again, we still go on worrying for no reason! It’s all a Yetzer Hara. Without a K’viyus in Shaar HaBitachon, you are in a sad world.
You’ve heard the saying: “Better a positive lie than a negative truth”. Actually, the positive is usually NOT a lie, and the negative is NOT the truth! The secret love for Tzaros, kvetching, and self-pity, is mankind’s constant Negi'a tendency to pull himself and his situation downwards! How sad life is for those who don’t work on Bitachon. How much goodness and fun in life are they missing, for no other reason than the wrong way of thinking.
In Parshas Korach, 250 Tzaddikim were burned alive because they brought Ketores. The Avoda of sweet smelling Ketores is more Chaviv precious than all the Korbanos. But if it’s not your Avoda, then it is a Sakana! No more envying the “finishing Shas” and “great accomplishments” of others. Learn to love what Hashem gave you!
Look at Shaul HaMelech. He was a super Tzaddik, yet since he was a Melech [a role which was the birthright of Shevet Yehuda, not Binyamin] he suffered with depression and doing inappropriate things.
They say that the Alter from Slabodka would always give every person a new chance, and would always suspect that right now the previously evil person has changed for the better. Every new minute in a person’s life is a possibility for a new world to open up.
This is the way Moshe Rabeinu lived his life; with extreme positivism and seeing good everywhere.
View YOURSELF Positively as Well
We can assume that Moshe Rabeinu also treated himself with positivism, and every minute of his life he was ready to become a totally new and better person.
A true Baal Bitachon believes that his life can always become a new and beautiful life with the greatest Nissim. Hashem can change your Mazal and your Tevah in an instant, and a new world can open up for you. The more Bitachon you have, the better your Mazal becomes.