Patience Is Pivotal

I do not care if you're from the Slabodka or Novardok school of thought. I think that you will find this vort as the answer to your life's problems. The Alter of Novardok begins with a Gemara in Brachos of the famous question of do we sit in Kollel or do we go get a job? We need to make money but we also need to make sure that we keep our Torah study up. So the Gemara continues that some people went and they got a job and some people went and they studied Torah all day and it didn't work for everybody. Harbei Asa K'Rab Shimon Bar Yochai some went with the approach of Rab Shimon Bar Yochai that we sit and we learned and some people went with the "B'zeas Apecha Tochel Lechem" that we got to go work. And some of the people it didn't work for them; that they forsook their Torah. Now, the Alter of Novardok asks, what was the defining difference? Why did it work for some people and why did it not work for others? Zukt the Alter of Novardok an idea that will change your life. Literally. If you don't believe me look it up in Madregas Ha'adam in Perek Yud Bais in Bakashos Hashlemos. He says the one defining difference is patience. "Yachol L'hamtin", the ability to wait. "Harbei Asa" to go to business and "Harbei Asa" to go sit in Kollel, and they gave up after they saw no fruits of their labor. They came back and they said we're reporting that it doesn't work. What is the reason that it worked for the few? Because they had patience. The koach l'hamtin. Patience is pivotal. What is the difference between failure and success? It is patience.