Table of contents to my new Sefer on Parnossa

Amulets 17

Beis Din Judges Poskim Rabbinical Authorities 18

Bitachon 20

Acquiring and Strengthening Bitachon 20

Advice from Gedolim? 24

Benefit and Harm are only with G-d’s Permission 25

Choice of Life with Bitachon or Effort 27

Combining Torah and Work 28

Competence – Significant for Success? 31

Definition 32

Different concepts – Ramban vs Chovas HaLevavos 35

Everything that happens is good? 36

Life Insurance 38

Luxuries also 40

Protects from Harm 41

Questioning G-d – Don’t 44

Rely on it 45

Righteous not relying on Bitachon 72

Righteous Suffer even with Bitachon 74

Sinners also helped? 75

Talking 78

Types and Levels of Bitachon 79

Yakov was afraid 83

Yosef was the epitome of Bitachon yet was punished 84

Blessing 86

Berachas Cohanim- Priestly Blessing 88

Consequences - Significance 95

Mitzvah 101

Pleasure 102

Source of Beracha – Good/Evil 104

Torah 104

Tzadik 105

Curses 106

Blasphemy- Cursing G-d 106

Consequences 111

Examples 113

Father or Mother 114

Forgive 115

Harmful 115

Harmless 116

How 117

Jew 119

Oneself 119

Prohibition 119

Punishment 122

Reason 123

Removing 123

Ordinary person curses 123

Talmid Chachom 123

Talmid Chachom or Tzadik curses 124

Why 124

Working 125

Charity 125

Amount to give 125

Benefits - Consequences 129

Mitzva 133

Damages 141

Divination and Darchei Emori – permitted for health 146

False Belief 146

Permitted 146

Prohibition 150

Used For Medicine permitted 153

Economic Competition or Interference - Hasagas Gevul 156

Examples 156

Rabbinic or Torah Law? 163

Teaching Torah 163

Effort – Hishstadlus 164

Amount - Type 164

Bitachon – shows lacking? 169

Bitachon results from Effort 169

Blessing 169

Choice of Life with Bitachon or Effort 170

Curse 171

Definition 172

Dependency 174

Difficult 175

Father obligated to Teach Son 175

Indicates importance 177

Insurance 178

Love Work 178

Male vs Female 179

Man was created to toil 179

Medicine 179

Minimize 180

Minimum or no effort with bitachon 180

Miracles are minimized 189

Motivation 190

Move to Another Place 190

My Strength 191

Prayer 197

Punishment 201

Secular Studies 202

Stops Sin 205

Success always requires? 207

Success and knowledge 220

Success not dependent on amount or type of effort 221

Success Always Attributed to G-d 230

Trade is Important 239

Trade desirability is individual 245

Working vs Fearing Heaven 246

Evil Eye- Good Eye 246

Avoid because of Evil Eye 246

Good Eye 248

Harmful 249

Protect Against 252

Why harmful? 255

Honesty 255

Lending Money 266

Leniency if there is financial loss –chosoron kis or hefsed merubah 269

Permit Torah Prohibition 269

Large loss only 269

Lost objects – returning 270

Mazel luck 271

Accuracy 271

Astrology is prohibited? 272

Astrology connected to Witchcraft 274

Bad Luck 275

Children Livelihood Lifespan 275

Divination 277

Everything guided by mazzal 278

Fortune shines Shaah mesachat 283

Good luck - Mazel Tov 284

Jews influenced by mazel 286

Obligation 292

Outdated and Worthless belief 293

Palm reading 294

Success dependent on mazel 294

Medicine 298

Best Doctors Destined for Gehinom 298

Book of Cures – Why it was concealed 298

Chazal – Disagree 300

Errors 300

G-d cures 300

Good vs Bad Doctor 301

Natural effort – need to go to doctor 301

Need for doctors – Sin causes Illness 309

Medical Views of Chazal differ from Doctors 314

Permission to heal 315

Permitted cures 318

Pikuach Nefesh – Life Threatening 319

Prayer 320

Suffering is desirable 320

Testing 321

Miracles 322

Appreciation 322

Beracha 323

Deserving a Miracle 325

Effort of Man required before Miracle can Happen 326

End of Miracles 327

Everything is miraculous 327

Hidden vs Open 327

Laws of nature 328

Minimize 330

Miracles are built into creation 331

Miracles that happened 341

Mitzvos protect if danger is not common 352

More Common in Previous Generations 353

Natural laws violated 353

Need for Miracles 354

Proof – not to be viewed as Proof 356

Praying for miracle is prohibited 356

Relying on a miracle is prohibited Even for Tzadikim 357

Salvation through Miracles 363

Sign a miracle will happen 364

Sun Standing Still 364

Types 365

What is a miracle 365

Tzadikim can make 368

Oni Mehapech BCharara Interfering with another’s Purchase 369

Definition 369

Parnossa 370

Advice for success 370

Determined on Rosh HaShanna 387

Effort Desirable 389

Everyman’s trade is fine in his eyes 393

G-d Provides all Parnossa 393

How Provided 401

Not Easily Obtained 405

Predestined or Free Will 407

Same as Father’s 410

Spirituality 410

Test 410

Wife : profession compared to loving wife 411

Working vs Fear of Heaven 412

Poverty 412

Always exist 412

Causes 413

Decreed before Birth 417

Definition - Nature 417

G-d Loves the Poor 419

Helping 420

Mocking 424

Poor are considered dead or sick 424

Problems and Benefits 425

Robbing 436

Torah Scholars 437

Tzadik 437

Wheel which impacts everyone 438

Ribis – Usury - Prohibition 439

Segula - Parnassa and Abundance 469

Simonim – signs or omens 479

Permitted 479

Parnossa 488

Prohibited 489

Rosh HaShanna 489

Temimos being Whole Hearted with G-d 491

Bitachon 491

Chanufah is opposite of temimos 491

Definition 492

Mitzva 497

Prohibition 498

Theft 498

Common – most people 498

Consequences 499

Definition - Examples 508

Debts non payment 518

Fraud 518

Mitzva 530

Predestined? 533

Repentance - Restitution 533

Steal from Parents 539

Steal from poor 540

Steal from Rich? 540

Steal from Dead 540

Steal from Non-Jews 540

Steal from Thief 541

Talmid Chochma not a robber 542

Tempting 542

Thief vs Robber 542

Trade 543

Withholding Wages 544

 Segula 587

Torah Study and Working 544

Benefits 544

Chazal also worked to earn living 544

R’ Gamliel gave poor students jobs 545

Hillel was a laborer 545

R’ Yehoshua was a charcoal maker 545

Torah study should be combined with working 545

Choose life of bitachon or effort 548

Charity 550

Combining Necessary? 550

Cruel to family as a raven 562

Diaspora only 564

Exclusive Torah Study & Bitachon 565

Financial security required to study 575

Honor Torah 581

If son learns Torah doesn’t have to learn profession 581

Intellect from Torah Study 581

Poor in Torah 581

Poor Scholars 582

Rambam received financial support from brother 582

Rambam would allow if no other way 583

Rich 583

Scholars in early times didn’t have to work 583

Scholars in early times only 586

 Secular Studies 466

Taking money for Torah is prohibited? 588

Torah and derech eretz 590

Torah is Primary Work is Secondary 600

Torah Study - without work - is obligatory for the minority 602

Torah Study is Difficult 605

Torah Study is Important 606

Torah Study supported by community 612

Torah Study with charity profanes G d’s name 613

Torah thoughts while working 613

Work interferes with learning 616

Work is a Curse 618

Yisachar Zevulen partnership 619

Tzadikim - Righteous 622

Alive – Truly 622

Angels Greater than 622

Ascetic? 623

Attachment to Tzadikim 623

Atonement Needed? 624

Avraham 624

Baal tshuva is Superior? 625

Become Wicked? 626

Bitachon  only for high level 626

Blessing 627

Bounty Source 628

Called by Name of G-d 629

Cancel Merits of Wicked 632

Cannot become poor - law of nature 632

Chanoch Enosh 633

Chariot of G-d 633

Chasidic rebbe 634

NOAM ELIMELECH: 635

Compared to G-d 637

Confronting Wicked 638

Counterpoint to Wicked 639

Create 639

Curse 639

Death of tzadik brings Atonement 639

Decree Against Houses 640

Death Decreed 641

Death – Minimized Pain 641

Death difficult for World 641

Definition - Nature 641

Described as G-d 654

Dies Another Replaces 655

Die Before Time 656

Disobey G-d 656

Doctors not needed 656

Doesn’t suffer from poverty 657

Don’t lack food even without effort 658

Doubts 658

Faith in Tzadik 658

Faith - Lives By 659

Few in Number 660

Finding What was Lost 660

Flourish 660

Forced to be righteous? 660

Foundation of World 661

G-d is Crown 662

G-d is Sanctified through Them 663

G d nullifies decrees because of Tzadik 663

G-d Sees Actions 665

G-d’s Chariot 666

Give Money 667

Good Natured? 667

Greater after Death 667

Greater person has greater lust for evil 667

Handiwork greater than Creation 668

Heresy 668

Imitating? 669

Ish Elokim – Man of G-d 669

Life is only Good for the Tzadikim 670

Many reasons for the suffering of the righteous 671

Miracles - Nature Change- 672

Miraculous protection is only for compete tzadik 672

Misfortune 674

Money is precious to him 675

No fear of judgment either in this world or the next 676

Noach 676

Opposition 677

Partners With G-d 677

Powers similar to G-d 678

Prayers 679

Predestined 679

Protected from all sin and error? 680

Protected if as spiritual as R’ Pinchas’ donkey 683

Protection from Harm 684

Punished 685

Reason World Exists 686

Rebuke Giving 687

Rely on miracles 687

Revealed before Creation 688

Reward 688

Rich 690

Rosh Hashanah 691

Sarah 691

Say little and Do Much 691

Seeing 691

Serving the Tzadik 692

Son of Tzadik 692

Son will not lack sustenance 693

Suffer 693

Suffer first 694

Suffering of Love 694

Suffering is beneficial 694

Suffer for Sins of Generation 696

Tempting 696

Tests 696

Thirty Six or Thirty 696

Too Righteous 697

Tzadik Decree G-d agrees 697

War conducted in natural way - except for tzadikim 698

Wicked Son Prospers 699

Wicked Interfere 699

Women 699

Work not needed so Much 699

Working vs Fear of Heaven 699

Yakov 700

Yashar vs Tzadik 700

Yosef 701

Wealth- Money 701

Acquiring - causes 701

Amount 712

Avoid being Dependent on Others 714

Consequences 714

Decreed before birth 715

Definition - Nature 716

Desire for Wealth 720

Determined on Rosh HaShanna 722

Honor 723

Israel only 724

Money 724

Other people’s Money 727

Predetermined 727

Preserve 728

Problems and Benefits 729

Prophets 737

Rescue by destroying another’s  property 737

Solomon- Shlomo 737

Spirituality 738

Steal from Rich? 738

Test 738

Tzadik’s money is more precious to him 739

Undesirable 740