felt so different.
I said “If you keep doing that, it's going to change your whole situation” Spend an hour a day, Halevai. I know a lot of stories. People who do that; just by exposing yourself. You don't even feel the difference; but you DO have a difference.
What Bitachon Can Do in Getting You the Torah That You Want
GREAT STORY
Now here comes a story, this just happened. A Yungerman who used to come to my Vaad; he came quite a bit, and after a while he disappeared. One day, suddenly he popped up, and he tells me: You know, people thought that I'm crazy, talking about the fact that Hashem can do anything, and all that stuff "You have to be practical!” "Get your feet on the ground!" Look, I'm a fifty-year-old guy who used to learn Torah day-and-night. I'm madly in love with learning. But I have a family of ten kids, and I couldn't manage, so I had to go to work.
I work my head off, and I learn very little. I'm "out of it”. But one thing that you convinced me was to get involved in Bitachon. So I learn an hour and a half a day Shaar HaBitachon or any other Seforim on Bitachon. And I'm always davening to have Bitachon. He is doing this for the last few years, and this has been the story of his life.
Bitachon means having Bitachon things will be good; i.e. in the way we want them to be
One day, a man walks over to him and taps him on the shoulder. “Excuse me, can you do me a favor? I would like you to “close shop”. Stop working, go learn day-and-night, and I will pay for every penny” This is like a dream! And he asked him "Can YOU do ME a favor"! From nowhere. A man with 10 kids. "I'm giving you a year's support. No work for that year". He did this for a year, and this person was in Gan Eden. He learned אֵיזֶהוּ נֶשֶׁךְ and he blossomed.
The next year, the Yungerman said “Let's do it again", and this year he did it without this person's support. Suddenly, “this” happened, and money came from here, and then money came from there, etc., For two years in a row, this is what he did. Look what happens when people get involved in learning a lot of Bitachon. They have a different Siyata Dishmaya.
SIMILAR STORY
I know another fellow, a super-Ben-Torah, I think he is a נוֹשֵׂא וְנוֹתֵן – he is the biggest Masmid in his whole Chabura. But he gets up 5 times a night with heart palpitations. He built himself a big house for his large family of 11 kids, and he says "I can't manage”. He is going meshuga. He “ligs” in learning, Gemara-Tosafos, but he is a basket-case. So "Mandel” got a hold of him, and gave him Bitachon Weekly's, and for a year or so he was my biggest Chasid. Slowly but surely, he made a Kviyus in Shaar HaBitachon for 5-10 minutes a day with a chavrusa, and he finishes it again and again. But it's not just those 5-10 minutes. When he walks in the street, it's Hashem. Bitachon, Bitachon, Bitachon.
As soon as he started doing that, one by one, all his problems started disappearing. People suddenly send him checks here, checks there; he has a lot of Mof'sim. He once needed money, because he wanted to make a fleishige Bris, and he didn't have a penny. He said “Eibishter, please!” Right after he said that, $2,000 came flying in from nowhere. He had big stories; he's like a big "Rebbe".
Then finally one day, his uncle called him up.