
Bitachon: A Practical Guide to Trust in God

The greatest miracle it guarantees us is inner peace in the face of life's most challenging adversity.
Lazer Brody • Bitachon: A Practical Guide to Trust in God
Money: "He who loves money will never be satiated with money" (Ecclesiastes 5:9). In other words, the person who desires money will never have all the money that he or she wants. Rebbe Nachman of Breslev says that such a person will therefore readily violate the Torah – even commit idolatry – in the pursuit of more money.
Lazer Brody • Bitachon: A Practical Guide to Trust in God
Our sages say that a person's livelihood is a greater miracle than the splitting of the Red Sea (Pesachim 118a).
Lazer Brody • Bitachon: A Practical Guide to Trust in God
"A person's fear brings him down but his trust in Hashem uplifts him" (Proverbs
Lazer Brody • Bitachon: A Practical Guide to Trust in God
In other words, by tithing over and over again, a person progressively internalizes deeper trust in Hashem.
Lazer Brody • Bitachon: A Practical Guide to Trust in God
inseparable, arrogance and bitachon are mutually
Lazer Brody • Bitachon: A Practical Guide to Trust in God
Approach A says that that bitachon is the confidence that Hashem will do for a person whatever he or she needs. Approach B say that bitachon has nothing to do with what an individual needs or desires, but is the calm acceptance of whatever Hashem does, no matter how uncomfortable it might be.
Lazer Brody • Bitachon: A Practical Guide to Trust in God
The second group of people who engage in full hishtadlus are the "nonbelievers", the ones who believe that their income depends on them only and has nothing to do with Hashem, Heaven forbid. These are the people with no emuna, much less bitachon, who work from sunup to sundown.
Lazer Brody • Bitachon: A Practical Guide to Trust in God
In like manner, histapkus could be translated as "sufficiency", "adequacy", "satisfaction" and "contentment", but it is actually all four rolled into one succinct term.