Episode 117V - What If Livelihood Was Not Your Job To Worry About

Send us Fan MailThe internet is loud, and a lot of it is designed to make you passive. We want the opposite: ideas that sharpen your choices, strengthen your character, and help you build a life that actually feels purposeful. That starts with a simple request from us as hosts: if you’re getting value here, share it, because the best content only rises when real people push it forward.We dig into Pirkei Avot and Ben Azzai’s line about running toward even a minor mitzvah. Why chase the “small” stuff? Because small good deeds build the habit of doing good, and habits quietly shape your future. We also challenge the urge to rank mitzvot as big or minor, since we don’t know the real spiritual accounting. The deed you’re tempted to dismiss might be the one you specifically need to do, and the one that sets everything else in motion.From there, we unpack the chain reaction at the heart of Jewish ethics: mitzvah leads to mitzvah, and sin leads to sin. We talk charity, mindset, and what it means to become the kind of home people turn to for help, while still being smart about obvious scams. Then we make a major pivot into trust in God and livelihood: you must show up and work with effort, but the outcome is not yours to control. If you truly internalize that, it cuts anxiety, reduces corruption, and makes integrity feel realistic again. If this hits home, subscribe, share the episode, and leave a review. What’s one small good deed you’ll “run” to do this week?Support the show#thetrustfactorpodcast  #jewishpodcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/.../the-trust.../id1803418137https://open.spotify.com/show/2xheh4uQ0xCYGGNVimSSWwhttps://chat.whatsapp.com/ICNYcOL39CtGG2YtaWui38...