Business and Work

To act in faithfulness: one merits this through strengthening oneself in the faith of individual divine Providence — and through knowing and believing that one's livelihood does not derive through the natural course of circumstances, but only through the will of the Creator. Hashem Yisborach can sustain a person with no intermediary causes whatsoever. The reason Hashem provides a person's sustenance through causes is in order to test him — whether he will stand in the trials that arise through his engagement with those circumstances — and to discern whether he can maintain the faith that sustenance depends not on the circumstances but on the will of the Creator.