One Who Lives with Hashem Is Not Fazed by People
Look how Lavan tricks Yaakov 100 times and Yaakov isn’t fazed in the least; and he comes out ahead. There are Lavan’s all over our lives. Silly Lavan was meaningless to Yaakov, despite all his brilliant tactics. **
Those who live with Hashem aren’t scared off by “powerful” people, and therefore they always win. I know people who simply aren’t afraid of court cases, and they always come out ahead. I know one person who won an “impossible” court case because he viewed the judge’s gown as a clown costume. It’s all in your head. There is nothing to fear but fear itself. ***
People like Lavan are very involved in Tevah. But a Yaakov laughs at all the “rules”. Yaakov doesn’t even get worried, and that’s why he wins.
A True Unbelievable Amazing Story
A Yungerman who has schizophrenia for 20 years, goes around somewhat lethargic, a side effect of the medication he takes. He is potentially a bundle of nerves (e.g., he can’t eat in public because of his crazy fears). He always says the Yehi Ratzon before taking his medicine. However, recently, after hearing me, he also started saying that the medicine doesn’t really help, since it’s all Hashem. **
A few days after he started saying this, he lost his medicine bottle. He kept saying to himself: “So what! I don’t really need it anyway!” Lo and behold, he is totally cured from twenty years of serious schizophrenia! He is much happier, and full of pep and life, since he doesn’t need the medicine anymore (which causes those side effects). ***
In the past, when he lost his medicine, he kept saying “This is terrible!”; and indeed, it was! You have no idea of how much going on in your life is only in the head. In Novardok I was constantly told: אַ לל עס א יז א ין קָ אפ It’s all in the head! ****
Novardokers functioned with Ruach, as the Gr”a says:
משלי יח יד רוּחַ א ישׁ יְכַלְ כֵל מַ חֲ לֵ הוּ that the Simcha and good mood of a person can cure him. I was once very weak and I couldn’t walk, until a Novardoker proved to me that it’s all in the mind, since if I had to pick up a fat check, I would suddenly have Koach. This M'halech has cured me many times. *****
Sometimes, when you are down and out, start writing all those good things going on in your life (especially your Maalos), and watch the energy! ******
Very often, Baalei Bitachon can live longer and healthier than normal. They can have Parnasa when it seems impossible, and Refuos which would be considered a medical miracle. Many Tzaddikim lived happily for years, despite serious health issues; Hashem gave them unusual strength.
