What is the difference between emunah and bitachon? Emunah is the belief that we have that Hashem does everything, that he’s the one in charge. Knowing that everything Hashem does is good, and comes from His love and compassion. Bitachon is bringing that belief into one’s day to day life, actually using it in real life. Emunah is
Mrs. Weiss* woke up one morning and she saw ants all over the counter. In the past, she had to try all different eitzos and hishtadlus to remove the ants. It took a long time. This time she said, “One second. Let me just go with Bitachon. Hashem is the Kol Yachol He can do
R’ Segal,* from England, said that he’s the cook in a camp, and last year the campers weren’t very happy with his food. This year, he decided to try something new. He added “Emunah and Bitachon” flavoring! He said, “Hashem, You’re in charge of making all the food.” Since then, everyone has been coming over
The oven in the Lieberman house was not working. They were pressing all the buttons, but it was not turning on. Rabbi Lieberman said that he was going to need to unscrew it to see what was going on. His wife told him, “One second , before you unscrew it, let me sing “Hakal Yachol.”
Mrs. Weber’s husband learns in kollel. She worked and supported him, but recently it became too hard for her to continue working, and she needed to stop. She had no idea how her husband was going to continue learning. She said to herself, “Hashem was the one who supported us until now. It wasn’t me.”
Shloimy, a bachur learning in Eretz Yisrael, needed to go shopping, but he did not have any money on him. He decided to go to the store and leave it up to Hashem. While he was at the store, someone came over to him and said, “I want the zechus to support a yeshiva bachur!
According to reports, there’s a Yid in Eretz Yisrael who was very sick. The doctors gave up on him. They said that he had three more days to live. The man decided to dedicate those three days to singing praises to Hashem! That’s what he did. At the end of the three days, he felt
Rabbi Yehuda Mandel is a Rebbe in YTT. They gave him a key for the front door, and they told him, “Make sure not to lose it!” He lost the key, and he couldn’t find it. He said, “You think I need that key? I’ll just take a different key.” He took a different key
Mrs. Moskowitz* is a teacher in Lakewood. One night, her husband came home from Yeshiva not feeling well. He said he was feeling shvach and nauseous. He said, “Oh, my chavrusa just had shigella, and I probably caught it. He was out for a few days.” The first thing his wife thought was, “Oh no.
Daily Bitachon stories from the “A Life with Bitachon” hotline. This story was called in by Mrs. Applebaum. Mrs. Applebaum said over that a couple of months ago, someone gave her a post-dated check. She kept it folded up until she was able to cash the check. Finally, the day came. However, the hours of
R Shlomo Shulman*, a yungerman from Eretz Yisroel, felt that his family really needed a vacation. However, he did not have enough money to pay for it. He decided they would drive to the city where they wanted to vacation, and have bitachon that Hashem would work it out. They arrived at the city of
There was a group of women who were playing a game. One would provide a scenario, and the others would pour drops of water out of their cups based on how frustrated they would feel in that situation. The more frustration, the more drops of water. Mrs. Lesser* realized that although everyone around her was