What is detrimental to trusting in H'shem is ignorance of the Creator's command, such as His Torah, in which He charged us to rely on Him and to trust in Him. Also, becoming enamored with the immediate causes which one can see, without realizing that the closer a cause is to the effect, the less is its power to help or harm the one affected by it, while the more remote it is, the greater and more manifest is its power to help or harm him. Such as the King, who has more power than the officer sent to carry out the decree. For if he pleases, he can pardon him. pg 365
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...