If you want to know if your bitachon is where it should be, there’s a very simple test. Do you go into a panic when you don’t know how you’re going to pay your next bill? Do you often think that you could have been more successful if only you’d done things differently? If your answer was “yes,” then you, like most of us, need to work on bitachon.

The Torah tells us that when Yosef Ha Tzaddik was in prison and asked Pharaoh’s wine steward to put in a good word for him, HASHEM punished him for his lack of bitachon. Doesn’t that seem a bit extreme? He was in a terrible dungeon, far worse than the prisons of today. What was wrong about making an effort to free himself?

The problem lies not...

Have you ever found it hard to get out of bed in the morning? Lying there after a full night’s sleep, is it difficult to get yourself moving? It doesn’t take a genius to know that’s laziness, but the question is: how do we overcome it?

For starters, we need to understand laziness – why we have it and why it drags us down. From there, the solution...