A cement dealer once heard from the holy Alshich that a person can have Parnasa without going to work, by simply relying on Hashem. In his simplicity, he went home, sat by the oven, and said Tehilim. When his family questioned his decision to stop working, he responded: Have you gone mad? My Rebbi said clearly, that if a person trusts in Hashem, he doesn’t need to work! Why should I work for no reason??
After a while, he sold his wagon and donkey to a non-Jew, who took it and went to work. On his way to dig cement, the non-Jew found a treasure. As he was putting the treasure on the wagon, a giant boulder rolled down the mountain and killed him. The donkey, being accustomed to his first owner, naturally returned back “home”, along with the treasure, turning the simple Yid cement dealer into an instant millionaire.
A Tamim gets a Temimus’dik life, a perfect utopia without all the pain and suffering that other people go through.
PS. The Baalei Mussar say that the best part of the story is how he reacted to his family when his family asked him to go back to work (His Bitachon didn’t work at first, and the family needed to eat!) He said to them ... “Are you Meshuga? The holy Alshich said that Bitachon alone will bring me Parnasa, so why should I waste my time and energy working for no reason?!” Look at the way a real Baal Bitachon deals with negative “reality”!
