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Our Daily Bread

meditations on earning a living


Your place is the wilderness. The bread you eat falls from heaven. The basket you collect it in is your attitude.

Clutch your basket tight and your manna will have no place to rest. Open it up and look to the heavens and your basket will always be full.


You have today's meal before you on the table and sit and fret over what will be tomorrow -- and you claim you are "just being practical." This is not being practical -- this is confusion.

Every day you are nourished straight from His full, open and overflowing hand. Everything in between -- all your work and accounts and bills and receivables and clientele and prospects and investments -- all is but a cloud of interface between His giving hand and your soul, an interface of no real substance which He bends and flexes at whim.

If so, if He is feeding you today, and He has fed you and provided all you need and more all these days, what concerns could you have about tomorrow? Is there then something that could stand in His way? Could He possibly have run out of means to provide for you?

Take your focus off the measured channels by which you receive and place your eyes on the Infinite Source of Giving. The Source has no lack of channels.


The reason you have a business is to reconnect all these fragments back to their Creator. And the gauge of your success is your attitude.

If you see yourself as a victim of circumstance, of competitors, markets and trends, that your bread is in the hands of flesh and blood...

...then your world is still something separate from your G-d.

But if you have the confidence that He is always with you in whatever you do and the only one who has the power to change your destiny is you yourself through your own acts of goodness...

...then your earth is tied to the heavens, and since in the heavens nothing is lacking, so too it shall be in your world.


The common conception of how the system works is faulty. They see a career as "making a living." A career doesn't make anything. What you receive is generated above, in a spiritual realm. Your business is to set up a channel to allow all that to flow into the material world.


Every business is the business of a tailor: to make clothes for the blessings that come your way.

You can't alter the size of your blessings by putting them in bigger clothes -- on the contrary, they might just be chased away. But neither should the clothes be too short. Because that is the whole purpose: that miracles and blessings should not come into the world stark naked, but be enclothed in the natural world. And we are the tailors.



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From the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson; rendered by Tzvi Freeman. To order the Daily Thoughts in book form, click here.


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Posted: Aug 9, 2006
Expanding, G-d provided the world with enough resources for everyone to live ...
The problem of starvation in my opinion is due to the lack of sharing! That is; mankind actively sharing amongst eachother. I don't blame G-d!
Posted By Rob van Dijk, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Posted: Aug 9, 2006
No these children are not the only ones to suffer, no one shouldn't trust in humanity instead of G-d, I don't think I said that ...
Posted By Rob van Dijk, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Posted: Aug 8, 2006
Response to Rob
And are those African children the only ones to suffer starvation? In fact, of the very sages who taught us to trust in G_d, many of them suffered the most terrible persecutions, starvation and disease.
And is the answer then that since there is starvation we should not trust in G_d, but in humanity instead? Almost all the starvation in the world today is due to political maneuvering of dictators and Moslem ethnic cleansing.
Posted By Tzvi Freeman (Author), Thornhill, ON



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Broken and Whole
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