When one's income is very limited and does not exceed the basic minimum by even the slightest, he should reflect in his heart and say  "He provided me at the start of my life with my daily food and my mother's breast accoding to my needs and enough to sustain me until replacing it with something better and the limited supply did no harm me in the least  In the same way I will suffer no harm on account of the limited minimal imcome he now give me to the end of my days.  pg 417 

 "And the Children of Israel came through the sea on dry land" (Shemos 14:22). Contrast this with the verse, "And the Children of Israel went on dry land through the sea" (Shemos 14:29). Why did the two verses switch the words "dry land" and "sea"? The Noam Elimelech answers this question as follows. When the Jewish people were going through the sea they saw and felt the awesome miracles that H'shem had done for them. They were able to walk through the sea like a man who is walking on the ground. Contemplation of these wonders brought them to an even higher madrayga (spiritual level). They realized that all of nature is as much of a miracle as the splitting of the sea. This is the level of "dry land through the sea". When you are on dry land, in your ordinary daily life, you see yourself as if you were in the sea. The miracles of nature are as apparent to you as the miracle of the splitting of the sea. shemayisrael.co.il "There...

A wealthy man who acquired his wealth through certain means. If those means had not been available to him, he would have acquired it through other means as previously explained.   The way one should trust in GD in regard to one's livelihood is as follows  If it is withheld from him on occasion he should say in his heart   The one who brought me into this world at a certain time and at a certain moment neither earlier no later He is the One Who withholds from me my livelihood unit a certain moment and day knowing what is best for me.  

 " From among you and not all of you I have made division among you and not among the nations" (chullin). This hints that someone who sacrifices himself to serve H'shem properly is compared to a sacrificial offering. And our Sages teaching "not all of you " teaches us that we cannot all serve H'shem in exactly the same manner.  MiPeninei Noam Elimelch  Parshat Vayikra  In its wisdom and compassion, Heaven sent the Baal Shem Tov and his disciples to infuse a new spirit of hope and joy into Klal Yisrael. The new movement taught how to find constant delight, even in the midst of catastrophe, and how to elevate the body along with the soul... So as we sit for a moment at the Seder of the Noam Elimelech or the tish (table) of the Chozeh of Lublin, let’s remember that we have both the advantage of perspective and the deficit of silence. The music is still and the resonance has been hushed. But we can imagine and dream, gaze at some of their pictures and bring them...

 One finds among those who seek wealth that one person attains all that he desires of it through the means we have mentioned another attains it through inheritance and the like and each thinks that it is the means that made him acquire acquire it  without the means he would not have attained it  Hence he exalts the means and not the cause  He is much like a man in the desert suffering from thirst who, upon finding brackish water in a pit, greatly rejoiced and quenched his thirst with it   When he continued a little further, he found a spring bubbling with fresh sweet water and regretted that he had drunk of the brackish water and slaked his thirst with it pg 415