Sublime

Each one of us too can work for Hashem. If our source of income (profession, business, job, farm or whatever) is our own, maybe it will succeed and maybe not, but it's liable to be sorely limited by natural circumstances. But, if we turn our endeavor over to Hashem, it must succeed!

Once all that has been done, he goes into battle while casting his heart and hopes to Hashem for victory and salvation.

When we turn to Hashem with bitachon, and we show Him that we have no one else to depend on – not the boss, the bank manager, the CPA, the lawyer or the doctor – then Hashem fulfills all our needs as well.

As I’ve said, our worth is not something that we earn, but something that we strive to live up to.

“On Rosh HaShana it is written and on Yom Kippur it is sealed…who will live and who will die,” we still go on to say, “But teshuva, prayer, and charity avert the evil of the decree.”

the centuriesold mission statement of the Jewish people, expressed by Shimon Ha-Tzaddik (Pirke Avot 1:2): “The world stands on three things: Torah study, worship/service, and acts of lovingkindness.”

Jewish theology insists that genuine self-worth is never competitive or comparative, never purchased at the expense of others. The source of my value, and theirs, is ultimately one and the same: we are all created in the image of God.24