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They tell a story of Rabbi Mendel of Rimanov, who had a student, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Vizhnitz. This student was extremely poor, to the point of starvation.
He would go visit his Rebbe, and his wife would beg him, “Please ask the Rebbe to daven for parnassah.” But he would answer, “For gashmiyut, no way. I go to the Rebbe for advice in limud Torah and yirat Shamayim, not for money.”
One day the situation became so desperate that his wife told him, “You are going to the Rebbe, and if you do not get us a berachah for parnassah, do not bother coming home.”
With no choice, he went.
When he arrived, he began to daven, to learn, to sing zemirot. He became uplifted and completely forgot about his problems. He stayed there for two weeks.
When he was preparing to leave, he remembered what his wife had said, that he could not come home without a berachah. But he thought to himself, how can I ask the Rebbe for something so mundane like money? Instead he went back to the beit midrash and stayed a few more days.
Finally his Rebbe called him in and asked, “How is everything at home?”
The student answered, “Rebbe, Baruch Hashem, I have everything. Hashem has blessed me with kol tuv.”
The Rebbe responded, “You think I do not know that you have nothing? You think I do not know that you are starving? But what you just said, that I have kol tuv, pierced the heavens. It gave life to worlds. And in that zechut I promise you that Hashem will grant you and your family shefa and parnassah for generations.”
These are the benefits of responding with emunah.
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