In Good Hands: Part B: Talks

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Part A: Letters

78.
Why was Yosef punished for placing his trust in the royal butler,
for preparing a natural means through which he could be released from the dungeon?
79.
Regardless of everything, Yaakov Avinu went on his way
with a light heart and in high spirits, because he had trust in the One Above.
80.
Even if until that moment such a person was tainted by idolatry,
or perhaps a tinge of it, when Pesach eve arrives he can have complete trust that "now
the Omnipresent has brought us near to His service."
81.
So long as the Yeshivah is their home, students should immerse themselves in their Torah studies
and not be concerned with questions as to how they will eventually earn a living.
82.
The Rebbe Maharash answers his own question:
"People are not lacking a livelihood; they are lacking trust.
Every individual is indeed provided with a livelihood. It's only that by lacking trust,
a person sometimes turns off the tap...."
83.
"Even a little guy like me gave tzedakah to a bedraggled stranger!"
84.
The first time Adam saw nightfall,
he discovered that a man is able to diffuse light even when the world around him is dark.
85.
Before the Sea Splits: Four Responses to the Crises of This World
86.
Faith and Trust
87.
A Jewish farmer "believes in Him Who is the Life
of all the worlds - and sows."
88.
From the Mouths of Babes: Three Modes of Trust
89.
When one has trust in the One on High,
he also has trust in his fellow Jews.
90.
Once the beleaguered King Chizkiyahu heard the words of Yeshayahu,
he placed his trust so completely in the Hands of G-d that he lay down in bed...
for a sweet and tranquil slumber.
91.
Even Bread from the Earth comes from Heaven.
92.
G-d will provide him with all his needs even if he has not yet
tackled his task for the month of Elul - repentance.
Indeed, it applies because he is in that state.
93.
G-d's army - and in our context, the Israel Defense Forces,
whose privilege it is to defend Jewish towns with actual self-sacrifice...
94.
Yosef turned to the Chief Butler
as if his whole salvation depended on him - and this constituted his sin.
95.
This arousal included a heightened trust that Divine Providence
supervises the particulars of every individual's life,
and this in turn empowered the chassid to decide what to do and how to act.
96.
"In G-d we trust" means that one regards G-d as his trustee:
one hands everything over into His Hands and relies on Him in all one's affairs.
97.
When a child is born, his sustenance is born together with him.
Indeed, the birth of an additional child increases the sustenance of the entire household.
98.
The commandment to "be fruitful and multiply" should be fulfilled in a spirit in which G-d's blessings
of sons and daughters are received "with joy and a gladsome heart."
99.
Trusting in G-d does Not Contradict the Belief that Everything is for the Good.
100.
Exactly What is Meant by the Obligation to Trust in G-d?
"A Weighty Task Indeed"
A Thought from the Rebbe Rashab

"When there is still a straw to hang on to"
A Thought from the Rebbe Rayatz

In Good Hands
100 Letters and Talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson
on Bitachon: Trusting in G-d

Part B: Talks
79.
Regardless of everything, Yaakov Avinu went on his way
with a light heart and in high spirits, because he had trust in the One Above.

Compiled and Translated by Uri Kaploun

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78.
Why was Yosef punished for placing his trust in the royal butler,
for preparing a natural means through which he could be released from the dungeon?

80.
Even if until that moment such a person was tainted by idolatry,
or perhaps a tinge of it, when Pesach eve arrives he can have complete trust that "now
the Omnipresent has brought us near to His service."

This[442] week's Torah reading tells of how one solitary Jew made his way to a foreign land. When he set out he had thought that he would arrive with his possessions, but by the time he arrived he saw that he was left with nothing. As he later said, "With my staff [alone] I crossed the Jordan."[443] Regardless of that, he went on his way with a light heart and in high spirits,[444] because he had trust in the One Above.
Arriving in Haran, he saw that he could rely on no one, even his relatives. Even his uncle, Lavan, cheated him. Yet despite all that, his trust in G-d remained intact.
What was the outcome? True, he toiled for long and arduous years in Haran: "Scorching heat ravaged me by day and frost by night."[445] But ultimately, having toiled with trust in the One Above, he left that place with considerable wealth. More importantly, "his bed was perfect"[446] - all of his children grew up properly and perfectly.

Notes:
(Back to text) Excerpt from a sichah delivered on Shabbos Parshas Vayeitzei, 7 Kislev 5712 (1951), and appearing in Likkutei Sichos, Vol. 1, p. 63.

(Back to text) Bereishis 32:11.

(Back to text) Bereishis Rabbah, Parshas Vayeitzei, sec. 1, cited in Rashi on Bereishis 29:1.

(Back to text) Bereishis 31:40.

(Back to text) Cf. Rashi on Bereishis 47:31.

78.
Why was Yosef punished for placing his trust in the royal butler,
for preparing a natural means through which he could be released from the dungeon?

80.
Even if until that moment such a person was tainted by idolatry,
or perhaps a tinge of it, when Pesach eve arrives he can have complete trust that "now
the Omnipresent has brought us near to His service."

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