Shaar HaBitachon- SoulWords

Continuing the fifth preface, sometimes righteous people seem to be working very hard for sustenance and wicked people seem to get everything handed to them. We look into some reasons why the righteous may face difficulties in receiving a livelihood as well as why the wicked may sometimes prosper.

(Chapter 3)

Continuing the fifth preface, the reason G-d makes there be so many steps in maintaining our needs is in order to test us. One who passes this test will be given his sustenance without work.

(Chapter 3)

The fifth preface: G-d's decree is the only real cause for anything. All other causes are just intermediaries in a process. 
When procuring those things that lie outside of ourselves, we must rely only on G-d by obeying His will for us.

(Chapter 3)

Rabbi Taub answers several questions from students. No new text is covered in this class.

The fourth preface: obeying G-d's will. When G-d makes rules for us, He's trying to take care of us. Certainly, G-d can also be kind to those who are undeserving, however, trusting in G-d means following His program for us as outlined in Torah.

(Chapter 3)

The second preface: G-d knows what we are really thinking.
The third preface: Trust must be exclusively in God not combining trust in something else with trust in G-d.
Doctors are but conduits through which G-d sends healing much like work is but a conduit through which G-d sends a livelihood.

(Chapter 3)

Everything in creation is under G-d's complete control. In order to understand this we need to discuss the nature of existence and how G-d creates something from nothing.
G-d alone creates something from nothing. We will gain no benefit from trying to manipulate the ‘somethings’ of the world. God determines how and where all the ‘somethings’ go at each moment.
We discuss the Rebbe's metaphor of "sewing wallets" in order to have more money.

(Chapter 3)

We examine the Scriptural proofs that show how G-d has each of the qualities enumerated in the previous class. The way we know that G-d has these qualities is not through logic alone, because G-d is not bound by logic. We know G-d has these qualities from how He transmits and communicates Himself to us, which is through the Torah, hence we use Scriptural sources. 
G-d uniquely possesses all of the qualities that elicit trust.

(Chapter 2)

What are the traits that elicit our trust? One worthy of our trust is compassionate, attentive, powerful, knows what’s good for us, is in constant control and complete control, and is kind to even those who are undeserving. Our trust will be complete if indeed we find one who has every single one of these qualities.

(Chapter 2)

The Author's Introduction concludes with an overview of the seven chapters of Shaar HaBitachon.
In a letter written to R' Mendel Shemtov a"h regarding health issues, the Rebbe tells him to learn Shaar HaBitachon. Rabbi Taub shares that this letter was one of the main inspirations for this class.

We begin Chapter 1. What does trust really mean? Trust is a feeling.

(Chapter 1)