The Ramban says that Hashem told Moshe not to be Mya'esh even though Paroh goes against him. So many of us work on Bitachon and then the opposite of what we want takes place. This is a form of: ואני אקשה (I will make it hard for you) and Hashem is Davka testing us to see if we will be Mya'esh. And if we aren’t Mya'esh, then we are Zoche double.
Novardok
I heard a story of R' Gershon Liebman Zatzal who was once at a big gathering, and he walked over to a fellow Novardoker [a famous and much respected Talmid Chochom] and he told him how upset he was that he wasn’t a Kano'i when it was appropriate for him to be.
As nice and as sweet as they were, they still were fearless and unaffected when it came to sticking up for Kavod Shamayim. And they weren’t: נושא פנים partial even to their own when necessary. A certain Chashuva person acted with Chutzpa to R' Wainkrantz Zatzal, who was the Gabbai in Bais Yosef of Boro Park. The Rosh Yeshiva, R’ Nekritz Zatzal (son-in-law of R' Avrohom Yoffen, who was the son-in-law of the Alter) was the sweetest and warmest person you ever met, but he let this person “have it but good”, and the Chutzpa never repeated itself.
I was told that in Antwerp by the shul of R’ Itzikel Pshevorsker Zatzal there was a Novardoker Yid by the name of R’ Ephraim Fulgar Zatzal. He would come early every day to daven at the first Minyan. He davened very, very, slowly, and he stayed there for 4 hours, finishing Shachris by the time the last Minyan was over.
I was told that although he wasn’t the most capable businessman, he made a nice Parnasa during the hours he worked.
Spending extra time with Hashem puts you in a new world, and gives you Si'ata D'shmaya to get Hatzlachos even with less work and less capabilities.
People who live with the Nissim of Mitzrayim in their mind, have a different “reality”. They are truly intelligent, because they live with the truth of Emuna and the greatness of Hashem. They are always reminding themselves of their private Nissim, and this causes Bitachon and more Nissim in their lives.
