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Table
Of
Contents

1. Yankee Fans And Emunah 5

2. What, Exactly, Is It That
We’re Supposed To Believe? 8
3. The Difference Between Emunah
And Bitachon 10
4. Emunah Without Bitachon 13
5. The Miracle Called Nature 17
6. The World Screams Out To Its Creator 21
7. Three Questions To Ask
Your Local Atheist 24

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8. The Moment Before Creation 29

9. The Second Level Of Emunah 36
10. Hashem Knows My Thoughts 42
11. The Fourth Level Of Emunah –
Hashem Is Here 47
12. Emunah And Good Luck Charms 52
13. You Can’t Harm Me,
You Can’t Help Me 56
14. How To Take An Insult 60
15. Bashert Doesn’t Mean
That It Has To Be 64
16. Passing Up Your Bashert 67
17. Outcomes And Intentions 70
18. Hashem Loves You 74
19. Is Hashem Angry With Me? 78
20. Hashem Loves You More
Than You Love Yourself 81
21. Stop Playing God 87
22. No Regrets 93
23. Why Is Life So Difficult? 97
24. Virtual Boxing Game 101
25. What Real Bitachon Feels Like 105

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Chapter One
Yankee Fans
And
Emunah

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HasHem in any

HasHem

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HasHem

believe. We do believe. We believe that HasHem

believe that HasHem
HasHem

HasHem

HasHem

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Chapter Two
What, Exactly,
Is It That We’re
Supposed To
Believe?

bitachon
HasHem
HasHem

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HasHem

bitachon
emunah
So if I have bitachon

HasHem
HasHem

emunah and bitachon

emunah bitachon

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Chapter Three
The Difference
Between Emunah
And Bitachon

emunah as the knowledge that HasHem

In Shemoneh Perakim
“The Creator, blessed be He, created and
orchestrates all activities, and He alone did, does and will do all actions.”

HasHem
HasHem

Emunah HasHem is involved in

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emunah
HasHem HasHem is

HasHem HasHem is there on the

That is emunah HasHem

HasHem

Bitachon Bitachon trust.

The Chovos HaLevavos bitachon as relying on HasHem,
HasHem

HasHem HasHem
HasHem

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That is HasHem
HasHem I take my heavy burden and place it on
HasHem.
Emunah is a state of understanding. Bitachon is a state of
trust. Emunah
there is a Creator. Bitachon

LIFE LESSON

Emunah is knowing that

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Chapter Four
The Difference
Between Emunah
And Bitachon

emunah and not bitachon

that HasHem

Shemos Rabbah

HasHem
HasHem

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HasHem HasHem,

HasHem

HasHem.
HasHem
HasHem
emunah HasHem
emunah bitachon.

HasHem

rebbe.

HasHem

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HasHem is out
to get me

HasHem
HasHem
HasHem
HasHem

emunah and bitachon

HasHem
emunah and bitachon

Chovos
HaLevovos

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emunah and a separate one for bitachon.

emunah,
bitachon.

LIFE LESSON

A person can have Emunah,

knowing that runs
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Chapter Five
The
Miracle
Called Nature

berachah. So

Tzefas, and

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beis midrash

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beis midrash

Chazak
u’baruch

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ready to eat.

oranges, grapes,

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Chapter Six
The World
Screams Out to
Its Creator

HasHem.

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Chapter Seven
Three Questions
To Ask Your Local
Atheist

those orange trees.

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Where
did the thousands of pounds of stuff that make up the tree come from?

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Where did the taste of the orange come from?

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Where
did the orange color come from?

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Chapter Eight
The Moment
Before
Creation

Bereishis
,
HasHem

before Creation is hard to

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HasHem

created nothing.

created

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am

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HasHem

made a baby

had
create the baby.

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HasHem

HasHem

HasHem

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HasHem

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emunah

nothing. Then HasHem

sprang into being.
emunah; there are three

LIFE LESSON

knowing that, from nothing,

brought forth and
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Chapter Nine
The Second
Level
Of Emunah

On Rosh Hashanah it is written, and on Yom Kippur it is

sealed: how many will pass from the earth, and how many will
be born. Who will live, and who will die. Who will die at his
predestined time, and who before his time. Who by water, and

emunah HasHem is

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HasHem.

HasHem

one there. This knight belongs here; the bishop over there. All

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HasHem on Rosh

HasHem gives

HasHem

HasHem

HasHem

HasHem

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servants of HasHem HasHem. We

HasHem

HasHem

Din.

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HasHem

and their fate set.

trepidation.
emunah
HasHem

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HasHem

emunah HasHem

that HasHem

LIFE LESSON

knowing that
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Chapter Ten
HasHem
Knows
My Thoughts

tzaddik.

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HasHem
HasHem
what I did that
why

HasHem

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gabbai
tallis over his head, absorbed in prayer. Right after Barechu, in

gabbai

The gabbai

gabbai
say anything.

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gabbai

gabbai

HasHem
that HasHem HasHem

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HasHem HasHem

pasuk Tehillim May the words

of my lips, and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing to you.
HasHem

HasHem HasHem

emunah
HasHem
emunah
that HasHem

LIFE LESSON

knowing that
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Chapter Eleven
The Fourth Level
Of Emunah –
HasHem Is Here

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HasHem
HasHem

that HasHem

HasHem

HasHem
that HasHem
that HasHem
HasHem

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HasHem

HasHem

HasHem

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HasHem
HasHem

in HasHem is that HasHem HasHem is

emunah HasHem is

HasHem
HasHem.

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HasHem

LIFE LESSON

knowing that is with

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Chapter Twelve
Emunah And
Good Luck
Charms

yeshiva bachur
”

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bitachon, they

know
sort of, kind of, hope

mazel
mazel mazel
mazel
bashert
bitachon, or mazel

bitachon. Bitachon is based on

HasHem
Bitachon HasHem

Bitachon HasHem
mazel HasHem.

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bitachon,
emunah
HasHem

bitachon

bitachon

Bitachon

HasHem HasHem
HasHem

Avos
HasHem

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HasHem
HasHem

HasHem

HasHem

HasHem. Not sort of hoping, or

knowing that HasHem

LIFE LESSON
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Chapter Thirteen
You Can’t Harm
Me, You Can’t
Help Me

Do not take revenge

[Vayikra

One day, you ask to borrow my shovel. I refuse. The next day,
I say to you, “May I borrow your hammer?” You respond,
“Yesterday, when I asked you for a shovel, you wouldn’t help
me. I’m going to pay you back in kind. Now that you need
something, I won’t help.” This is revenge.
[Yoma
The Sefer HaChinuch

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HasHem
HasHem

HasHem.
The Sefer HaChinuch
HasHem HasHem

HasHem
that it is HasHem

bitachon
HasHem

HasHem
No person, animal or other creation can harm me, without

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HasHem’s approval Chovos HaLevovos, Sha’ar HaBitachon

HasHem

HasHem

HasHem.

HasHem

HasHem

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HasHem. HasHem

shidduch.

HasHem
Sefer HaChinuch
you you
you HasHem

done
HasHem

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Chapter Fourteen
How To
Take
An Insult

Chovos HaLevavos Sha’ar

Bitachon When someone insults you causing you pain, you should turn
your eyes heavenward and say, “Thank you, HasHem, for revealing a few

sent by HasHem.

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I get
it—it all comes from HasHem. Obviously, I don’t get angry. How could
I get angry? You didn’t hurt me; you didn’t insult me—you are just the
puppet mouthing the words. There was Someone behind the scenes pulling
the strings.

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Chovos HaLevavos

HasHem

HasHem, for revealing a

HasHem

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HasHem
HasHem

HasHem

LIFE LESSON
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Chapter Fifteen
Bashert Doesn’t
Mean That It
Has to Be

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in.

available

bashert

HasHem
accessible

take it.

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bashert HasHem

are off. Possibly HasHem

The point is that HasHem

Bashert

HasHem

LIFE LESSON

Bashert doesn’t mean it has to

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Chapter Sixteen
Passing
Up
Your Bashert

zt”l
bashert

bashert. HasHem prepares the right

HasHem

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shadchan and to that one. This singles event

HasHem
HasHem

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HasHem

their bashert

rare either.

LIFE LESSON

decrees what is best,

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Chapter Seventeen
Outcomes
And
Intentions

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HasHem
HasHem

HasHem

HasHem

HasHem
option of being the one to end

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HasHem
HasHem

intentions; HasHem outcome. HasHem gives the

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HasHem

HasHem.

LIFE LESSON
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Chapter Eighteen
HasHem
Loves
You

emunah
third level: that HasHem
HasHem peers into

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HasHem

ba’alas teshuvah, and

her.

HasHem to people in
HasHem
anyone. HasHem
HasHem

HasHem HasHem
HasHem is
HasHem

to HasHem

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HasHem
HasHem

HasHem

HasHem

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The Chovos HaLevavos explains that HasHem

HasHem
and kind. HasHem HasHem

HasHem

HasHem HasHem

HasHem

HasHem
HasHem

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Chapter Nineteen
Is HasHem
Angry
With Me?

HasHem

HasHem
HasHem

HasHem angry.
HasHem is the Creator of all. HasHem

HasHem

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energy into it.

HasHem

HasHem
HasHem

HasHem
HasHem

HasHem is
HasHem is in
HasHem is

HasHem;

to HasHem.
When HasHem

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HasHem
HasHem

HasHem

HasHem
HasHem
HasHem
HasHem

HasHem

HasHem
HasHem

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Chapter Twenty
HasHem Loves You
More Than You
Love Yourself

The Chovos HaLevavos explains that in order to have bitachon,

HasHem
HasHem
HasHem
HasHem
HasHem
HasHem you
HasHem
HasHem
HasHem

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HasHem loves
a person loves another person. HasHem
HasHem
you love yourself.

HasHem
thinking of HasHem
HasHem
, Chazal

gold

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HasHem

HasHem HasHem

if HasHem

love that HasHem

bitachon HasHem
HasHem
HasHem HasHem
HasHem

HasHem

HasHem

If HasHem

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bitachon

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Baruch HasHem

The Chovos HaLevavos

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HasHem

sense of devotion to their offspring.

HasHem

HasHem

HasHem
HasHem.

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Chapter Twenty-One
Stop
Playing
God

emunah
HasHem

that that
that
HasHem

HasHem

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HasHem

maybe, maybe
supposed HasHem

that

HasHem

HasHem,

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rebbe,
menahel
HasHem

my this

HasHem

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HasHem knows
better than I do what is best for me.
HasHem
bitachon.

HasHem HasHem is
know

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HasHem
HasHem
HasHem

HasHem
HasHem
other. And HasHem He
knows me even better than I do, so He understands my needs better
than I do.

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HasHem
HasHem

LIFE LESSON
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Chapter Twenty-Two
No
Regrets

kollel

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you

Aw, shucks!
Aw, shucks bitachon. Aw, shucks

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HasHem

HasHem

HasHem

strange reason

that

HasHem. Whether
HasHem
than I, and HasHem
good.

kollel
HasHem
has no regrets. No could have, should have, would have

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I
failed. I I

HasHem. HasHem HasHem

HasHem

no regret.
HasHem knows better than I do what is best for me.

LIFE LESSON

A person with perfect Bitachon,

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Chapter Twenty-Three
Why Is
Life
So Difficult?

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HasHem
HasHem
HasHem
differently. HasHem

“That coach, I
don’t know what’s with him. Every time I get the exercise right, he goes
and adds more weight to the bar. What’s wrong with him?”

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HasHem

HasHem

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LIFE LESSON

In weight training, the

movement of the bar isn’t
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Chapter Twenty-Four
Virtual
Boxing
Game

virtual

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lives, HasHem

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The Chovos HaLevovos Shaar HaBitachon

HasHem

HasHem

HasHem.

HasHem is hiding behind every

HasHem

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Chapter Twenty-Five
What Real
Bitachon Feels
Like

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HasHem
HasHem is looking
HasHem
HasHem
HasHem
HasHem

HasHem
HasHem

HasHem is

HasHem loves me more than I love myself. HasHem

knows better than I do what is for my best.
When I say these phrases again and again, they start
emotional level

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HasHem

HasHem

LIFE LESSON

To grow in bitachon certain

Two such phrases are:

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Where
Do We Go
From Here

“The Shmuz.” The

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