Shaar HaBitachon- SoulWords

Some healthy self-talk to meditate on when we’re financially stressed: There’s a right moment for everything, and G-d will provide you your livelihood when it’s time. If you only get what you need ri…

One need not overwork or work unethically to get the money that is coming to him. Neither should one be mnentally preoccupied with making a living. Fear is the product of a toxic meditation. Faith is…

People often think that associating with wealthy people will somehow make them wealthy also and that this will bring them honor. But wealth itself isn’t honor; spending it properly is what is honorab…

There are two levels of sustenance: one's own personal needs, and the needs of those one provides for (family or employees). There are three possible errors one can make when in the position for prov…

One can do nothing to increase the amount of wealth that G-d has already allotted for him. Likewise, a healing only works because G-d wants it to. Sometimes a livelihood and healing come from a place…

We continue to discuss appropriate ways of exhibiting trust in G-d. Even if one has trust, he still must act responsibly.

(Chapter 4)

Just because G-d is running the world, doesn't mean you are allowed to put yourself in danger. One should not engage in risky behavior.

(Chapter 4)

How to have proper reliance on G-d in one's material as well as spiritual matters. These categories also have many detailed subcategories which will be covered in the following classes.

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Continuing the fifth preface, when making a vessel for a livelihood, choose a job that’s suited to you; and when you do it keep in mind that you’re fulfilling G-d's desire for people to work. Don’t b…

Continuing the fifth preface, sometimes righteous people seem to be working very hard for sustenance and wicked people seem to get everything handed to them. We look into some reasons why the righteo…

Continuing the fifth preface, the reason G-d makes there be so many steps in maintaining our needs is in order to test us. One who passes this test will be given his sustenance without work.

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The fifth preface: G-d's decree is the only real cause for anything. All other causes are just intermediaries in a process. 
When procuring those things that lie outside of ourselves, we must rely onl…

The fourth preface: obeying G-d's will. When G-d makes rules for us, He's trying to take care of us. Certainly, G-d can also be kind to those who are undeserving, however, trusting in G-d means follo…

The second preface: G-d knows what we are really thinking.
The third preface: Trust must be exclusively in God not combining trust in something else with trust in G-d.
Doctors are but conduits through …

Everything in creation is under G-d's complete control. In order to understand this we need to discuss the nature of existence and how G-d creates something from nothing.
G-d alone creates something f…

We introduce the Five Prefaces, one of which is to recognize that the seven qualities discussed in the previous lessons are found in G-d alone.

(Chapter 3)

We examine the Scriptural proofs that show how G-d has each of the qualities enumerated in the previous class. The way we know that G-d has these qualities is not through logic alone, because G-d is …

What are the traits that elicit our trust? One worthy of our trust is compassionate, attentive, powerful, knows what’s good for us, is in constant control and complete control, and is kind to even th…

The Author's Introduction concludes with an overview of the seven chapters of Shaar HaBitachon.
In a letter written to R' Mendel Shemtov a"h regarding health issues, the Rebbe tells him to learn Shaar…