If Hashem is unlimited, why am I making so little money?
By Rabbi Shalom Landau.
Rabbi Landau answers a question someone once asked him: “God is unlimited. Why am I making so little money?” His reply was direct: “Because you're limited. He's unlimited but you're limited. Your brain is limited.”
“The secret to make money,” he teaches, is “don't limit yourself.” Ask big: “As much as you have, double it. Ask double.” And don't only ask: “believe he's going to give it to you.”
He quotes the verse in English: “Hope to Hashem, make your heart strong, and hope to Hashem.” That, Rabbi Landau says, is what praying is: “manifesting, connecting, hoping, believing, living in it. Live in it.”
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In A Soul at Peace: Hope in Hashem, and Our Limits
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Where does the limit on blessing come from?
In A Soul at Peace, Rabbi Landau writes that nothing is held back on the side of the Giver; the limit is on the side of the one receiving, the size of his vessel. “The blessing is endless. The vessel is the limit.”
Going deeper: Rabbi Landau's teaching, level by level
Surface claim
Hashem is unlimited; the limit is in how small a person thinks and expects.
Fear, vulnerability, or tension
In A Soul at Peace, Rabbi Landau describes the man who works hard and asks why he only gets this far, and says the question hides “a whole world of pain.”
Underlying need or longing
To widen. Rabbi Landau teaches: ask big, believe Hashem will give, and live in that hope.
Deepest human truth
Prayer is more than asking. It is connecting, hoping, believing, and living as if it is already coming.
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