Do you stay up at night with financial worry and anxiety?
Perhaps you can learn a lesson from Moses that might help you.
You see- when the Jewish People were ready to stop being slaves and start becoming a free people, the very first instruction from G-d, through Moses, was that they should go to work to make a living. But it wasn't an instruction to just start working. Moses tells them a great secret: 'its how you work that counts, not how hard you work that matters'
Instead of the active, intensive form of "Six Days a week you shall work', Moses says it in the unusual passive, mild form: 'Six days a week work shall have been done' - work hard, but not with all your soul. Because you're not in this on your own. G-d wants to help. He wants to be your partner. You just need to let him in.
If you work too hard- working like your life depends on it- then you leave no room for G-d to help you succeed. But if you work hard, and with faith, you welcome G-d into your business. Moses assures us that'G-d will bless you in all that you do',He will help you succeed beyond your wildest expectations.
'Where is G-d?' was a question once posed to the saintly Rebbe of Kotzk. 'Where?! you ask. Wherever you let him in!!'
So start working a little less hard, start believing a little more and you'll certainly enjoy the good night's sleep that follows!
Wishing you a Shabbat full of faith and wild success,
Rabbi Dovid and Chana Vigler