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
89.
When one has trust in the One on High,
he also has trust in his fellow Jews.

Compiled and Translated by Uri Kaploun

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88.
From the Mouths of Babes: Three Modes of Trust

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.

Everyone[605] agrees that it is a fundamental principle in our faith and in our Torah to be certain that the One on High is Omnipotent - and not only in the Seventh Heaven, but also in this material and physical world, including the United States of America.
That said: When one has trust in the One on High, he also has trust in his fellow Jews, "the one nation on earth."[606] On this theme, [the Gemara discusses whether the sages in the time of the Prophet Yechezkel could have been expected to rebuke their contemporaries for their shortcomings]. There the rhetorical question is asked:[607] "If everything is revealed before You, [G-d,] does this mean that everything is revealed before [mere mortals]?!" When one has trust in the Jewish people, this rhetorical question is fulfilled with regard to the untoward[608] conduct of others: one does not see it. Moreover, trusting in the Jewish people, one discovers that the young people one encounters are "seed blessed by G-d"[609] - when one approaches them with a true teaching drawn from the Torah of Truth,[610] without fear [of losing status or communal approval].

Notes:
(Back to text) Extract from a sichah delivered on Yud-Tes Kislev, 5731 (1970), and published in Sichos Kodesh 5731, Vol. I, pp. 257-271. This talk was occasioned by a public meeting that had recently been held elsewhere, at which a certain speaker had argued that because of the changing circumstances of time and place, premarital license should nowadays be condoned.
The above extract translates only the part of the sichah that is related to bitachon. In other parts of the sichah, the Rebbe chastises the Rabbinic and educational figures who had been part of that audience but had remained silent, and goes on to advise how one should present the Torah way of life to young people - directly, positively, and without fear of being stigmatized as outmoded.

(Back to text) II Shmuel 7:23.

(Back to text) Shabbos 55a.

(Back to text) Characteristically, instead of describing negative conduct outright by an adjective such as "evil," the Rebbe employs a euphemistic circumlocution - the adjective "not-good."

(Back to text) Cf. Yeshayahu 61:9.

(Back to text) In the original, Toras emes (Malachi 2:6).

88.
From the Mouths of Babes: Three Modes of Trust

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.

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