Bitachon and Hishtadlut

The video below talks about the balance between bitachon(trust in G-d) and hishtadlut(human initiative.)
It reminds me of an anecdote about a young woman who came home from a lecture and told her mother, “That’s it! No more phone calls. Rabbi X. said that the only necessary effort in finding a shidduch is to daven."
The mother responded, "Fine. Good idea. You daven and I will make the phone calls."

Matityahu and his sons knew that Hashem would never destroy Klal Yisrael. With that understanding, they could have stayed in the Beit Midrash and had bitachon in Hashem. Why should they fight the Syrian-Greeks and the mityavnim (Hellenist Jews)? They were few in number and non-professional soldiers. Yet, Matityahu defined bitachon as active. This is the story of Chanukah - people were moser nefesh to take upon themselves something seemingly impossible, and thereby released tremendous forces of siyata dishmaya.
To read full article, click on the link below:
http://www.kby.org/torah/article.cfm?articleid=1330