"There is None Besides Him"

A powerful clip with wonderful words of faith from our teacher, the holy Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a, regarding the greatness of Hashem and the faith and trust in Him in every situation.

"If you lack intellect, then you lack bitachon (trust). Bitachon and faith are inherent to the people of Israel—you study Torah, and then you have bitachon."

"'Trust in Hashem forever' (Isaiah 26:4)—for bitachon, there are no limits—'forever,' bitachon is without any limits at all."

"Our entire work is to reveal Divinity even in the 'empty space,' to show that Hashem exists even in Auschwitz—there were Jews who put on tefillin inside the crematorium."

"All death and all sin stem from a person forgetting that Hashem created him—he forgot."

"The heart of the simple Jew who says Psalms and is now returning in teshuvah (repentance) is higher than you! He knows that Hashem created the world."

"That a person should be able to believe—everyone believes, but to believe in practice that Hashem is standing and hearing me, and seeing me—then Hashem knows what He is doing—Hashem knows better than I do."

"A person is the navigator of his life—he navigates his own life, he decides what is good and what is evil—instead of that, cast everything upon Hashem—upon the tzaddik, 'Cast your burden upon Hashem' (Psalms 55:23)."

"Then he would see that every bit of sand placed in his crates turns into gold. Let him know that there is nothing besides Hashem; there are no thieves, no robbers, no one has ever done me harm."

"There is none else beside Him—there is nothing outside of Hashem; therefore, one comes to the tzaddik, who is Nachum Ish Gamzu. The tzaddik is the Nachum Ish Gamzu who says about everything—'this too is for the good.'"

"A person without faith is a person without a loaf of bread; he has nothing, no vitality, he has nothing at all. What is he living for? He has nothing to live for!"