Welcome to Daily Bitachon. We continue going through the words of our Rishonim on Bitachon. (The commentary of the Rishonim/the early rabbis, is often more succinct than that of the Achronim/ later Rabbis , but there are many pearls within nonetheless.) The Rambam had a son known as Rav Avraham Ben Rambam. He wrote a sefer called Hamaspik L'Ovdeh Hashem /What's Enough to be a Servant of Hashem , in which he has a section on Bitachon. He asks, What is true Bitachon? True Bitachon is when you rely on Hashem in all areas and don't focus on any intermediary. He provides examples such as when a person gets sick, has v'shalom, and then gets better. He has to realize in his heart, in his thoughts, and in his conscience that the healing did not come from anything but the word of God. So when someone gets better, they have to imagine that Hashem is whispering, " Let this man get better ." Nothing else will help him. He quotes a pasuk in Devarim 32:39, מחצתי / I hit, ואני ארפא /and I make better.. If someone goes through a procedure and it doesn't work out, it didn't work out because that's what Hashem wants. He quotes a pasuk to back that up as well. So before we go for to any procedure, we have to know that Hashem is the One that's literally performing the procedure. And if someone involved himself in business and was successful, he has to know and realize that that profit did not come from anything else but גזרתו Hashem's decree. As it says: כי הוא הנותן לך כח לעשות חיל – because He, God, is the One that gives you the strength to amass wealth, which Onkelos translates as God is the One that gave you the ideas. When someone gets a great license, has a great idea for a product, a great buy, or a great sell- Who gave them those ideas? Hashem gave you the ideas. And if, has v'shalom, something goes wrong, or there's a mishap, he has to realize again, that this was God's decree. There's a pasuk that says: זרע רב תוציא השדה /a field can give forth much grain, ומעט תאסוף/ and only a small amount will be brought in . How could that be? It can be, because that's what Hashem decreed. So again, what is true bitachon? When the one who's relying places his reliance, and his belief in all areas on Hashem above, and not on any of the standard intermediaries that exist. That is Bitachon. So if we want to know if we have Bitachon, that is the way we know.