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Daily Chizuk #1509
Weekly Parasha
Effective Healing: Complete Recovery through Hashem
1st Chanukah Lighting
Parashat Miketz: The Right Mindset
This week's parashah begins with the words "ויהי מקץ שנתיים ימים- and it was at the end of two years." Twoyears since what? The Midrash explains- because Yosef asked the sarhamashkim to mention his name to Pharaoh and get him out of jail, Hashemadded an extra two years to his sentence. Not only did Yosef not gain by askingfor help. He even lost.
The mefarshim are bothered. What did Yosef do wrongby requesting that help? After all, aren't we supposed to make a hishtadlutto try and help ourselves? All he did was make a simple effort to try and get himself out of jail.
Hashem is in charge of success. A person should not thinkbecause he has money it is due to his skills, because Hashem is the one incharge of money. He should think I have money because Hashem gave it to me, andthe way I made it just happened to be one of the millions of ways that Hashemcould have given it to me.
This is the emmet. Hishtadlut has nothing todo with results. It's a responsibility in action only, but our mindset shouldalways be only on Hashem.
Shabbat Shalom & Chanuka Sameach!
Parashat Miketz: The Right Mindset
This week's parashah begins with the words "ויהי מקץ שנתיים ימים- and it was at the end of two years." Twoyears since what? The Midrash explains- because Yosef asked the sarhamashkim to mention his name to Pharaoh and get him out of jail, Hashemadded an extra two years to his sentence. Not only did Yosef not gain by askingfor help. He even lost.
The mefarshim are bothered. What did Yosef do wrongby requesting that help? After all, aren't we supposed to make a hishtadlutto try and help ourselves? All he did was make a simple effort to try and get himself out of jail.
Hashem is in charge of success. A person should not thinkbecause he has money it is due to his skills, because Hashem is the one incharge of money. He should think I have money because Hashem gave it to me, andthe way I made it just happened to be one of the millions of ways that Hashemcould have given it to me.
This is the emmet. Hishtadlut has nothing todo with results. It's a responsibility in action only, but our mindset shouldalways be only on Hashem.
Shabbat Shalom & Chanuka Sameach!
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