I met a Yid who told me the following:
I was sure you were starting a new project! While walking in the street, I saw a huge sign that read: “Do You Want Financial Security (Bitachon Kalkali)?” I assumed this was another project of your organization. I thought you were arranging a series of shiurim or a course that would quickly raise one’s level of bitachon. I walked over to the sign, curious to see what you were going to surprise us with this time. What did I discover? That this was some type of ad about tools for parnassah and work – I don’t remember exactly what it was. It’s possible that the ad alluded to proper avenues of hishtadlus, but is that “financial security”? The only way to attain true financial security is by trusting in Hashem!
I enjoyed his words so much. If someone sees the concept “financial security” and immediately associates it with Hashgachah Pratis, this means we have been zocheh, b’siyata d’Shmaya, to initiate a revolution in thought, that emunah in Hashem is the one and only pipeline for shefa.
How true, I thought to myself when I heard his words. I knew a Yid who worked very hard for his parnassah all the years. He collected one penny after another and put it aside so the money would serve him in his old age. When he was old, however, he discovered that the money had been lost. “Hashem showed me compassion,” he said. “He did not want me to leave this world with the feeling of financial security because of the money I had set aside, but rather with the feeling of bitachon in Hashem, Who gives me life and sustains me every day anew.”
Nowadays, a person can put money into the bank and indicate that a transfer should be made on a specific date. When the date comes, the transfer is automatically made. Imagine a father who wants to help his son, and he orders the bank to transfer a few thousand dollars into his son’s account on the tenth of the month. On the eighth of the month, the son walks around feeling all pressured. In another two days he’ll have to deposit money, and he has nothing! What will be? He doesn’t know what to do, but in actuality the money is already there, and very soon it will be transferred into his account...
We are the children of our Father in Shamayim, and He cares about us more than we care about ourselves. He knows the right timing for everything, and He has all the good in the world, just for us. The transfer will be made, at the right time.
When we know that this is how it works, we can be calm, and inner calm is the basis of financial security.
May we hear besoros tovos, and may everyone be showered with bountiful brachah and hatzlachah!
Gut Shabbat
Pinchas Shefer
Parshs Re'eh - Shoftim 5784 ■ Issue 146
