BTW, like I said: most of what we are talking about here is pretty much semantics. I feel that you must live through your life at the level you are holding. This means that at each turn you definitely have to do your hishtadlus otherwise you may not be ro’ui to get whatever is that is coming to you. However, hishtadlus is relative to where you are holding. For some people it means getting a job. For others it means davening. Obviously, one has to be holding at a very high level to really feel that his hishtadlus is solely davening. Most likely there are very few people if any who are alive today who can claim such a level. However, the fact remains that Hashem has autonomy and your hishtadlus is not what is causing the result. This is clear according to everyone who writes about bitachon. in fact, the chovos halevovos is mashma that everything that happens was encoded into briyas haolam other than your choices themselves.
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