It is improper for a person to profess in his speech that he trusts in GD if he does not trust in Him in his heart and inner self. A person should trust in GD alone in matters in which he is obligated to trust in Him. He should not associate anyone else with Him trusting in GD and in one of the creatures for his trust in GD will be spoiled by associating someone else with Him. It is well known that whenever two or more people are appointed to carry out a given task the appointment fails certainly then if one trusts in GD and in someone beside him his trust will fail and this will be the strongest factor in his being denied the object of his trust
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...
