Emuna Daily

“The Yismach Moshe toiled in Torah from his youth.  He had great difficulty with his livelihood and it affected his learning and service of Hashem.  One evening he made an accounting and determined that in order to pay off all of his debts and support himself for the rest of the year he would need five hundred gold coins. He davened from the depths of his heart to Hashem, Who has all of the silver and gold, “Master of the World, please arrange five hundred gold coins for me.”  He davened intently and in the course of his davening exhausted himself until he dozed off.  He dreamt of the holy Arizal entering the room and the room lighting up from his holy presence.  The Yismach Moshe though that Heaven must have sent the Arizal with the five hundred coins.  The Arizal came closer and said, “If I bless you and you have the five hundred coins you will no longer need Hashem’s help.”  With that, he awoke … with the realization that we need Hashem’s help for every step and every breath.  The One Who created each day also created sustenance and He will provide us with our food when we need it.” ~ Rav Menachem Azolai as translated by Dov Elias

“All a person controls is the effort; the results are in God’s hands.  Success is then not determined by the results.” ~ David Sacks

“Under fire” – in the midst of a difficult tribulation – we can’t see how our current predicament is for our own good.  But with emuna, we believe that our current predicament is for our own good.  Our faith gives us the strength to cope and to function at our best under any situation. ~ The Garden of Emuna