The second error of the ignorant consists of thinking that all the wealth he acquires is meant for his own sustenance. He does not realize that there are three types of income. First, there is income for one's own needs. This GD assures to every creature that has a spark of life to the end of its days. Second is income for the needs of others e.g. wife children servants attendants and the like. This is not promised by GD to all people but only to a select few under certain conditions. It is something that may happen at one time and mot at another according to the dictates of the Creator's ways of kindness and justice. Third is income to be held as wealth. This is money that is of no use to the owner but which he preserves, protects, bequeaths, to someone else, or loses. pg 413
Once, on a Motzoei Shabbos, the chasidim were sitting in the bais medrash of the Ruzhiner Rebbe zy”a for Melave Malka. Suddenly, the Rebbe opened the door of his room next to the bais medrash, stood at the entrance, and said, “The Baal Shem Tov was not a deity, and the zaida, the Magid, was not just an ordinary wagon driver. And once, when the holy Baal Shem Tov prayed, his talis fringe fell out of his gartel and dragged on the floor. The Magid approached, picked it up, and put it back in the gartel, but he was trembled with such tremendous fear that he fainted and his life was in danger. They were compelled to rouse the Baal Shem Tov from his deep dveikus in order to calm him.” He then added, “I told you that the Baal Shem Tov was not a deity and my zaida, the Magid, was no wagon driver. Still and all, when he touched the Besht’s garment, he fainted from fear. The entire world is Hashem’s garment. How much fear must we feel to touch this world!” May the memory of the...