Daily Chizuk #1103

When a person makes any type of hishtadlut, he will usually put in his best efforts even if that would require hours and days of his time. If the results are important enough to him, money would be no object either. When someone wants something, he is willing to do whatever it takes to get it. The Chazon Ish wrote in a letter, if someone prays properly, begging Hashem for help, that will accomplish far more than any hishtadlut he could possibly make. It is the prayers which determine if the hishtadlut will work. And therefore, a person should put in at least as much effort into his prayers as he does for the other hishtadluts that he makes. This understanding, and the understanding that Hashem could help in the blink of an eye, no matter how unlikely success appears to be, will make the tefila infinitely greater. Hashem has unlimited ways of helping people and, as we’ve seen time and time again, the help comes from places that we could have never imagined.
Hashem has many way of helping and He is our only source of help. Hishtadlut is necessary, but only after we put in the best effort into the most important hishtadlut of all, our tefilot!