The tzaddik, Reb Noach of Lechovitch, shared the following story with his chassidim:
Hirshke, a simple Yid, earned his parnasa by selling merchandise in the market. Before daybreak he would go out to the countryside to meet the goyishe farmers before they arrived in town, and bargain with them over their goods.
One day a visiting maggid came to town and spoke of the intrinsic value of living with bitachon, and explained that no man ever earns a kopke more than what HaShem has ordained for him. Hirshke took those words to heart. On the following market day he decided not to rush out early to try and reach the farmers before his competitors did. His anxious wife, seeing him lying in bed, urged him to get up.
He told her what he had heard from the maggid, concluding that whatever HaShem had planned for him, he would be able to buy at home. She did her eloquent best to convince him otherwise, but Hirshke refused to leave the house.
A while later, when they heard the other buyers outside clinching their deals with the goyim, she pleaded with him again, but to no avail. Then one of the farmers called out, "We're not selling any more stuff until Hirshke shows up!"
The goyim began banging on his shutters, shouting for him to get up. Hirshke got dressed, brought the farmers inside and bought everything at a discounted rate without having to bargain. From that day on, he never had to leave his house, for the goyim would come to him, and he made a respectable parnasa till the end of his days.
Reb Noach finished the story and added, "This worked for him, because he was a simple fellow whose faith was whole and uncomplicated. It wouldn't be the same for someone else who tried to upgrade his bitachon by adding the sophistication of reason...."
(סיפורי חסידים זוין תורה ע' 381)
