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Only with H'shem's persmission

 No one can benefit or hurt either himself or anyone else except with the permission of the Creator, may He be exalted.  For if a servant has more than one master and each of them is able to help him, it is impossible that he should come to rely exclusively on any one of them because he expects help from each of them.  If one of his masters is able to help him more than the other, his reliance upon the former will be greater in proportion to that person's power, though he will also rely on the other.  If only one of them can benefit or harm him he must necessarily place his trust exclusively in that person since he does not expect help from anyone else.  

You are capable

 The Creator may He be exalted is the strongest of all the strong. His word is absolute; no one can reverse His sentence.  He oversees the governance of all human beings.  He neither forsakes them nor ignores them. None of their affairs, small or great, are hidden from Him. One matter does not distract Him from another matter pg 375

All knowing

 Human makers create nothing in their work except for accidental forms and have no skill or power whatsoever to create the basis or the essential form; how much more so must it be true of the Creator of the essence of a human being his form, character and orderly unity.   He is, without a doubt, absolutely wise and all-knowing in what is beneficial or harmful or good for man in this world and the next.

Compassion and mercy

 The Creator is the most compassionate One of all toward man.  Compassion and mercy shown to man by anyone besides Him all derive from GD's compassion and mercy.   None of the ways in which man's welfare is furthered is unknown to the Creator.  This follows logically, for man is one of GD's works, and there is no one who knows more about what benefits a thing or harms it, about the mishaps that can befall it, the ailments that can beset it, and what can cure it than it's maker pg 373 Daily Halacha After using the bathroom, the consensus of the poskim is that one is not required to wash his hands three times with a vessel after using the bathroom. The evil spirit that adheres to one's hand after using the bathroom is different from the ruach rah, which adheres to one's hand upon rising and does not require the stricter procedure of washing three times with a vessel. There are some poskim who disagree, and so it is praiseworthy for one to be meticulous and wash hi...