ויאמר משה אליהם איש אל יותר ממנו עד בקר
Moshe said to them, “No man may leave over from it until morning.” (Shemos 16:19)
Chazal (Yoma 76a) teach that enormous amounts of manna descended each day – more than the nation required for a day’s sustenance. By midday, it was all gone. This was part of a Heavenly lesson to the people: Hashem provides for our daily needs – daily. To worry about tomorrow is a shortcoming in our emunah and bitachon, faith and trust, in Hashem. This is the gold standard for which a Jew should aspire. The amount of hishtadlus, endeavoring, that one should expend is correlated with his level and trust in Hashem. The Vilna Gaon, did not go to doctors, understanding that Hashem is the ultimate Healer. He knew that his physical ailment was a Heavenly message concerning a spiritual deficiency. Thus, he introspected to see what he could improve. We are not on that spiritual level; therefore, we turn to science as the agent by which Hashem heals our ailments. At the end of the day, however, we know that everything – both illness and its cure – comes from Hashem.
HoRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, zt”l, was the paradigm of a ba’al bitachon. Every word that issued forth from his mouth, every action that he took, represented his deep-rooted bitachon. At the age of one hundred and four, his physician said to him, “The Rav lives by neis, miracle.” In his calm manner, Rav Shteinman replied, “You,
