Should Rich People Teach Bitachon?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, this is Dov Laski with that question and answer series, where in a few minutes we'll try to answer listeners' questions. Why do we listen to bitachon shiurim from rich people? Wouldn't it be better to listen from poor people? Well, uh I have to tell you, I know poor people who don't have any bitachon also. >> [laughter] >> I don't know some rich people who have a tremendous amount of bitachon. Now, I don't know if you're referring to uh this specifically, but I know there's uh a fellow in New York who makes these uh these little recordings about bitachon. My kids listen to them, and they get uh tremendous amount of chizuk from them. And he is wealthy, but he stresses, "I did not start out wealthy. I was not born wealthy. I was uh born to a single mother without any money, and I built myself up, and I managed to succeed in life because I had bitachon." And I understand that Hakadosh Baruchu could take everything away from me in a second, and I know people who it's happened to. Wealthy people have lost it. So, to think that a wealthy person doesn't need bitachon, doesn't need trust in God, and to think that every poor person has bitachon, is a mistake. Bitachon is an attribute that has nothing to do with your financial situation. Nachmanides Ben Gurion was a very wealthy person,

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2. 0:31uh a fellow in New York who makes these uh these little recordings about bitachon. My…
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