If no more than his subsistence has been decreed for him even if all those in heaven and on earth were to try to increase it they would not succeed in any way or by any means. And if he trusts in GD he will find peace of mind and tranquility of soul for his allotted portion will not be transferred to another nor will it come earlier or later than the appointed time. Sometimes the Creator so orders it that many people obtain their livelihood through one person in order to test that individual whether he will serve GD or rebel against Him for such a position presents him with one of the most powerful sources of trial and temptation a person could face pg 411
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...