The owner of a field should plow it clear it of thorns sow it and water it if water is available and at the same time rely on the Creator may He be exalted to make it fertile protect it from disasters increase its yield and bless it. He should not leave the earth untitled and unsown relying on the Creators' predetermination that it will bear fruit without him first sowing seed. In the same way, artisans, merchants, and laborers must pursue their livelihood in their respective callings while trusting in GD that sustenance is in His power and under His control, that He guarantees it to a man and provides it to him by whatever means He pleases One should not think that the intermediate cause can help or harm him at all. pg 405
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...