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Daily Chizuk #1431
Parnasa / Money
Awesome Power: Changing Nature through Prayer
The pasuk says the reason that Hashem gave the Jewish People mann in the desert was למען הודיעך כי לא על הלחם לבדו יחיה האדם כי על כל מוצא פי ה' יחיה האדם. Meaning, to teach us that man does not live on bread alone, but rather on everything that comes from the mouth of Hashem does man live. It seems to us that the body is able to function when a person eats bread because bread is a source of dietary fiber which helps keep the digestive system healthy and helps control blood sugar and cholesterol levels. However, Ibn Ezra explains, the pasuk is telling us man lives only because Hashem says he should have life. It is not the nutrients of the bread that give a person life, it is the word of Hashem. The mann did not have nutrients, it was more of a spiritual type of food that did not even get excreted. With the mann, Hashem showed us that He, not food, is the One who gives us life.
The same applies when a person takes medication. We are required to do the normal hishtadlut of using the means that Hashem provided to heal ourselves with. But we are to believe with every fiber of our being that Hashem and only Hashem decides if and when a person becomes healed. When we are able to make a hishtadlut, we have to. But if we are not able to, then we are exempt and we can totally rely on Hashem. Sometimes a person does not even know that he needs to make a hishtadlut. It is in those instances that we clearly see that Hashem runs the world.
It is true, Hashem could have also just prevented the explosion from happening in the first place, but then we would not get to see His loving hand involved in our lives. We are fortunate enough for Hashem to give us reminders that He is in full control of everything that is happening at every second of the day. Nature is just a camouflage for Hashem.
It is not bread that gives people life, it is only Hashem.
Shabbat Shalom!!
The same applies when a person takes medication. We are required to do the normal hishtadlut of using the means that Hashem provided to heal ourselves with. But we are to believe with every fiber of our being that Hashem and only Hashem decides if and when a person becomes healed. When we are able to make a hishtadlut, we have to. But if we are not able to, then we are exempt and we can totally rely on Hashem. Sometimes a person does not even know that he needs to make a hishtadlut. It is in those instances that we clearly see that Hashem runs the world.
It is true, Hashem could have also just prevented the explosion from happening in the first place, but then we would not get to see His loving hand involved in our lives. We are fortunate enough for Hashem to give us reminders that He is in full control of everything that is happening at every second of the day. Nature is just a camouflage for Hashem.
It is not bread that gives people life, it is only Hashem.
Shabbat Shalom!!
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