livelihood

It suddenly struck me just how absurd it is to handle work tasks and try to advance things with people of flesh and blood, instead of asking Hashem directly for livelihood. It's about as senseless as asking a Sudanese cleaner who doesn’t understand Hebrew for a raise instead of approaching the boss.

"We saw that yeshiva scholars need livelihood but have no profession, so we considered developing a Haredi high-tech company," says Aharon Saprai, who for the past seven years has been ensuring the training of hundreds of Haredim in the field, while not abandoning Torah study.

Those who believe their livelihood comes from their boss's grace alone are the ones truly mourning when they lose their job, as if their "god" has died.