We can learn a lot about Bitachon from Eliezer, Avraham Avinu’s servant.

Avraham makes Eliezer promise to follow his directions and go to the place of Avraham’s birth to find a wife for his son Yitzchak.

Eliezer swears but asks “what if she won’t come home with me?”

Avraham tells him that if the girl won’t come back with him, he will be absolved of his vow.

Then Eliezer heads out on his journey. When he got to Avraham’s hometown, he set himself up at the well with his camels in the evening which is when the local women would come collect water.

Eliezer then davened to Hashem and asked Hashem for everything to work out. For the right girl to come along and give him water to drink and also give his camels water to drink.

When Avraham made Eliezer swear, and then said that if it didn’t work out, he would be absolved, he was showing us that a person needs to make a commitment to his hishtadlut, to whatever he is trying to do.

Make a commitment that you will do your job or mission properly to the best of your ability. After that, you are no longer in control. It is all up to Hashem at that point.

We try (we do our hishtadlut) and the results are up to Hashem. We do our job and then let go and let God.

Then when Eliezer started doing his hishtadlut, he davened to Hashem and asked Hashem to make him successful. For Hashem to arrange everything to happen the way he wanted it to happen.

Before we do our hishtadlut for anything, to work, to earn a living, even to learn Torah or do a mitzvah, we need to ask Hashem for help and for us to be successful because we know that the results are only in Hashem’s hands.

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