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Part A: Letters

Part B: Talks

   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
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.
Compiled and Translated by Uri Kaploun

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  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."
Search this book:
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...."  

It[460] was said at the previous farbrengen that the students of the Yeshivah[461] should immerse themselves in their Torah studies and not be concerned with questions as to how they will eventually earn a living.[462] Such calculations derive from the Evil Inclination. Following that discussion, a few comments were heard to the effect that I don't really care about the students' material situation, only that they should be scholarly and G-d-fearing....

Let it be perfectly clear, then, that this is absolutely untrue. I am concerned and anxious about the material situation of every single student, about every detail of how he will find his way through life in a material sense. [...]

My revered father-in-law, the Rebbe [Rayatz], cared in the past, and he cares today, too, about every little detail in the life of every individual student. He takes care of every individual student's matrimonial match,[463] and of every individual's livelihood[464] - and I mean an ample livelihood.

The Rebbe used to say that "bodily strength enables spiritual strength,"[465] that is, that one needs a strong body in order to have a strong soul. Nevertheless, he expected that as long as the Yeshivah was their home, the students should not think about how they would ultimately earn a living.

So, to remove any possible mistake, let me repeat: The way in which every single student will settle, in the material sphere, certainly matters to me.

At the same time, one must not forget the teaching of the Sages that "a person's livelihood[466] is budgeted for him from Rosh HaShanah...." A person's livelihood is not what he himself makes, but what the Holy One, blessed be He, gives him. The nations of the world are subject to the rule of nature, whereas G-d's conduct toward the Jewish people transcends nature. With the Jewish people in general, with chassidim in particular, and especially with the Yeshivah students, material blessings are drawn down to this world by means of Torah study. Accordingly, for the students to think about ultimate practicalities while they are still in the Yeshivah is unproductive. Indeed, if they now devote themselves utterly to Torah study and to Divine service, an ample livelihood will be elicited for them in due course, without the bothersome worries that confuse one's Divine service.

May G-d grant that the distractions aroused by the "many thoughts in the heart"[467] of each of us should fall away, so that everyone will be enabled to fulfill his life-task[468] with a tranquil mind, with a happy heart (in the spirit of the verse, "Serve G-d with joy"), and with great success.

   

Notes:

  1. (Back to text) An excerpt from the farbrengen of Yud Shvat, 5713 (1953); see Toras Menachem - Hisvaaduyos, Vol. 7, p. 335.

  2. (Back to text) I.e., the Tomchei Temimim Yeshivah, which was originally founded in the White Russian village of Lubavitch in 1897 and had since been transplanted in Brooklyn and in many other sites around the world.

  3. (Back to text) In the informal Heb./Yid. original, "without calculations regarding tachlis."

  4. (Back to text) In the original, shidduch.

  5. (Back to text) In the original, parnassah.

  6. (Back to text) One of two classical stances. Cf. Zohar I, 180b and 105b; see also the maamar beginning VaYomer Moshe 5709 (1949), sec. 12 (in Sefer HaMaamarim 5709, p. 63), and the maamar beginning Basi LeGani 5713 (1953), sec. 6.

  7. (Back to text) In the original, "his food" (Beitzah 16a).

  8. (Back to text) Mishlei 19:21.

  9. (Back to text) In the original, shlichus.


  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."
Search this book:
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...."  
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