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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
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.
Compiled and Translated by Uri Kaploun

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  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.
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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."  

Parents[676] have been granted a great blessing and a great privilege: G-d has enabled them to fulfill the mission of being fruitful and multiplying - not only spiritually,[677] but also, and chiefly, physically.

As to the argument about the expenses this entails, the Torah teaches that Adam was created on the eve of Shabbos in order that he should immediately enter and find his meal ready and eat whatever he desired.[678]

Moreover, "Man was created as an individual in order to teach you that [...] whoever saves one Jewish life is regarded by Scripture as having saved an entire world."[679] Thus every Jew, in all places and at all times, is "an entire world," like his prototype, Adam, and may immediately enter and find his meal ready.

This, then, is the eternal directive of the Torah of Truth and the Torah of Life - that when a man conducts his life as he ought, G-d provides him with all his needs without any bother, just as He did for Adam.

True, G-d desires that a man make a natural vessel that will serve as a conduit to draw down blessings and a livelihood, as it is written,[680] "And the L-rd your G-d will bless you in all that you do." At the same time, the Torah of Truth assures us that 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.

Parents should therefore utilize the blessing that G-d has granted them, by fulfilling the mitzvah to "be fruitful and multiply"[681] quite literally. This they should do with perfect trust in G-d, "Who, in His goodness, provides sustenance for the entire world with grace, with kindness, and with mercy," from His "full, open, holy and generous Hand." Let them trust that He will surely bestow sustenance upon the newborn child, and that moreover, his birth will elicit added blessings for the sustenance of the entire family.

   

Notes:

  1. (Back to text) From a sichah delivered on Yud-Alef Nissan (the Rebbe's birthday), 5744 (1984), and published in Toras Menachem - Hisvaaduyos, 5744 (1984), Vol. 3, p. 1429.

    See also Items 21 and 70 above and Item 98 below.

  2. (Back to text) I.e., generating offspring by teaching people who had not been exposed to Torah and mitzvos.

  3. (Back to text) Sanhedrin 38a and Rashi there.

  4. (Back to text) Op. cit., 4:5.

  5. (Back to text) Devarim 15:18.

  6. (Back to text) Bereishis 1:28.


  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.
Search this book:
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."  
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