One of the advantages of Bitachon is that it brings gratitude. If a person believes and understands that everything that he has is because Hashem gave it to him out of His goodness, and not because I worked on it, not because I deserve it, but out of the kindness of God, then he starts to appreciate what he has. And the opposite of appreciation is what we call entitlement . Rav Wolbe explains that one of the reasons that people don't have Hakarat Hatov/gratitude is due to a fundamental belief, which is that it's axiomatic that everything in this world is supposed to be that way. I'm supposed to have kidneys that work. I'm supposed to have a heart that beats. I'm supposed to have a house, I'm supposed to have a family, and so on. In his words, “ Hakol Magia Li/ everything is coming to me.” Magia Li- These are the Hebrew words for entitlement . “ I'm entitled to it, I should get it.” Therefore, I don't recognize anything . This belief comes from the fact that we are raised, as the Hovot Halevavot says, with all the wonderful things in the world, and therefore everything's just obvious. Another reason people feel entitled is because a person has an ego and sees himself as the center of the world, so everything is there for him . So, of course, I'm entitled. And of course, there's no place to recognize any goodness because it's supposed to be this way, because I am the center of the world. It takes a lot of work to undo that thinking. Rav Wolbe quotes from a Rashi in Bereshit, 11,5 where it says that God came down to see the city and the tower that was built by the Bnei HaAdam, which usually translated as human beings , but the term used for people is usually Anashim. Bnei HaAdam means, “the sons of Adam.” Who else would they be, asks Rashi. Are they sons of donkeys or camels? Rashi explains that it means, “ Sons of the original man, who was Kafoi Tova.” He was an ingrate. He told Hashem, “ That wife that You gave me, she caused the problems!” And so too, the Dor HaMabul also were ingrates. Adam HaRishon’s original sin also came from a lack of gratitude. How so? When the snake comes to Adam and Chava he says, “is it true that you can't eat anything in the garden? Adam and Chava felt like they deserved everything . If they were missing one thing, it was like they didn’t have anything. The words- “ Hamin HaEtz / Did you eat from the tree,” is an allusion to Haman , as Hamin /from is the same words as Haman . Haman was similar to Adam in that Haman had everything in the world. It lists his children, his bank accounts, his honor. And yet, he admits, “ It's all worthless as long as Mordechai isn’t bowing down. ” He thought he was entitled to everything. That was the original sin of Adam and Chava. Because of that, the curses they received were B’Itzavon / with difficulty ( which can also be translated as with sadness , Tochlena/ you’re going to eat, Kol Yeme chayecha/all the days of your life ). That was the curse of that sin. You're going to be sad. Why? Because you're going to continue with that same mistake of thinking that everything's coming to you. So how do we fix that underlying depression of man, that comes from his original sin? The Sfat Emet says there's another time that it says, Kol Yeme Chayecha, referring to Yetziat Mitzrayim. We say, ” All the days of your life,” because Yetziat Mitzrayim reminds us that we don't deserve anything . We were slaves. We were taken out of servitude. Going through the process of the Seder and the Pesach experience is supposed to bring us to the understanding that “ I don't deserve anything, and everything I get is a gift of God.” That is the beginning of happiness . Sadness comes when you're not happy. Why aren't you happy? Because you think everything's coming to you. We can fix that by realizing that everything is a gift . That's the job of the seder . We will expound on this important tool of gratitude versus the negative approach of entitleme nt .