Emuna Daily

A man was driving down the street, and he had an important meeting and couldn’t find a parking space.   After circling around for a long time, he finally looked up towards the Heaven and said, “Hashem, have pity on me. If you find me a parking space, I will go to shul each day and devote my life to Torah and Mitzvos.”

Miraculously, just at that moment, a parking space appeared. The man looked up again and said, “Never mind. I found one.”

Let’s not be like this man. Let us recognize when Hashem is giving us a hand.  

“Hashem doesn’t have to test us to know [what we will do], but these things that we are expected to do… constitute the purpose we came to this world. We are put through all these circumstances, each representing a different kind of a test, to become perfected. By passing all the tests and doing all the deeds, we turn potential into actual.” ~ R’ Avigdor Miller

Trust in Hashem is like an insurance policy.  A person can have a policy granting coverage for $1000, $10,000 or $100,000, depending on how much a person is willing to pay.  The larger the policy, the more the person is covered.  Similarly, the insurance we receive from Hashem depends upon the amount of trust we place in Him.  The pasuk in Yirmiyahu states:

ברוך הגבר אשר יבטח בה’ והיה ה’ מבטחו – “Fortunate is the man who trusts in Hashem, and Hashem will be his guarantor.”  This means that Hashem will be a person’s guarantor because he places his trust in Him.

Thus one who places abundant trust in Hashem is fortunate, because he receives the ultimate “coverage.” ~ based on the Baal Shem Tov zt”l