When relating to those above him and those below him among the various classes of people, the right way to rely on GD is as follows. When the need arises to ask for something from someone above him or below him, he should rely on Gd for it and regard the people as the means of securing it just as one tills the soil and sows it as a means to his livelihood If Gd wishes to support him form it the crops grow, thrive and flourish and no thanks are due the land for this only the Creator. If Gd does not wish to support him from it the land yields no produce, or it yields produce which suffers damage, and the land is not to blame.
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...