מבטחוMivtacho

מבטחו Mivtacho

Sources of bitachon from Tanach, Chazal, the Rishonim and the Acharonim, in the original Hebrew, with an English translation.

בָּרוּךְ הַגֶּבֶר אֲשֶׁר יִבְטַח בַּה׳ וְהָיָה ה׳ מִבְטַחוֹ׃ירמיהו יז, ז

מִגְדַּל־עֹז שֵׁם ה׳ בּוֹ־יָרוּץ צַדִּיק וְנִשְׂגָּב׃משלי יח, י

כִּי־הָיִיתָ מַחְסֶה לִי מִגְדַּל־עֹז מִפְּנֵי אוֹיֵב׃תהלים סא, ד

The sefer

Mivtacho is a sefer of sources on bitachon. It begins with Tanach and goes on through Chazal, the Rishonim and the Acharonim, in the order in which the Torah was handed down. Each source stands in its own Hebrew, with our English on the facing page.

Every source carries its exact mareh makom. Above each one is a single line that restates what it says and adds nothing of our own.

The Topics menu gathers the sources by subject, so that a subject such as bitachon and hishtadlus can be read straight through, from the pasuk to the Acharonim.

The texts and the translation

The Hebrew is taken from editions that are in the public domain or openly licensed, named on every page, and is checked against the printed seforim. The Name is written ה׳, and אלקים with a kuf, as is customary in printed source sheets.

The translations are our own. They aim to read as plain English while keeping close to the Hebrew; words we have supplied for the sense stand in square brackets. Where the author writes Hashem, so do we; where he writes אלקים, we write G-d.

A page marked as a draft has not yet been reviewed against the printed text, and should not be quoted until it has.

Works that guided our choice of sources

These seforim and collections pointed us to many of the sources gathered here. Their texts and translations are not used on this site.

  • Sefer Mitzvas HaBitachon, Rav Shmuel Huminer
  • Chovos HaLevavos, Shaar HaBitachon, in English, translated by Rabbi Yosef Sebag
  • Beis HaLevi, Essay on Bitachon, in English, Ghermezian Edition, MoneyHalacha
  • Faith in G-d Versus Human Effort (Bitachon VeHishtadlus), Avraham Weinroth, translated by Dov B. Lederman, Feldheim
  • Bitachon: Actualizing Our Faith (Da Es Bitachoncha), by the author of Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh
  • Two Minutes to Bitachon, Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier, The Shmuz
  • The Bitachon Reader, Rabbi Shaya Cohen, Priority-1
  • The Limits of Religious Optimism, Rabbi Daniel Stein, Tradition 43:2
  • Source sheets on bitachon and hashgachah, JewishClarity.com

Where the texts come from

Each sefer below is named with the edition its Hebrew is taken from, and its licence. Most were taken from Sefaria’s free library (sefaria.org); the Talmud Bavli there is the Hebrew Wikisource edition. Every source page also names its edition at the foot of its first page, with a link.

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