“This is the third time I’ve ever purchased a lottery ticket, and when we found out that we had won, we didn’t jump up and down – we took a book of Tehillim (Psalms) and said ‘thank you’ to the Creator. We couldn’t fall asleep. We were very happy and excited from the great gift we had received.”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/225286
Parshas Mishpatim: Ben Ish Chai - Why The Innocent Children Suffer
The pasuk tells us that when someone causes pain to an orphan or widow, Hashem will take matters into His own hand and will kill the opressor and leave his family without a father and husband. One might think that the reason is because they are downtrodden. While this is certainly a concept mentioned in the Torah and Chazal, that is not what the pasuk says here.
Rav Itzele Volozhin explains that when a person faces a difficulty, he naturally turns to his patron to help him, usually a father or husband. When the person does that Hashem stays out of the scene and leaves it to the person turned to for help to do so. Not so with widows and orphans who don't have a father figure to turn to. They cry out directly to Hashem, "Ki Im Tzaok Etzak Elai." (Mishpatim 22:22) When someone cries to Hashem, how can our compassionate King not answer their prayers?
The lesson is that we should be smart, and as soon as we need something, Hashem should be our first port of call and not a last resort when all else fails.
http://revach.net/parshas-hashavua/life-lessons/Parshas-Mishpatim-Rav-Itzele-Volozhin-We-Can-All-Be-Answered-Like-Orphans-Widows/5202
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