[Avodah] Should you go to the best surgeon?

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:03:17PM -0400, Rich, Joel wrote:
:> By this line of reasoning, going to work every day is too much hishtadlus.
:> Instead, I should shnorr a dollar a week and buy a lottery ticket.

: Isn't that exactly what the michtav meliyahu says (for a true baal
: bitachon)? [minus the scnorr part]

I took REED as referring to an idealized archetypal ba'al bitachon,
a hypothetical someone whose bitachon even exceeded Avraham. Avraham
survived the kivshan ha'eish, but the avos worked for their money. The day
Moshe was holy enough to see the seneh, he too had a day job. I therefore
assumed this "baal bitachon" of the MmE is a theoretical person used to
the high edge of the spectrum.

:-)BBii!
-Micha