This week is Shabbat HaGadol. I'm sure everybody will hear nice thoughts on Shabbat HaGadol in shul, but we don't want Parashat Sav to get lost. There's a beautiful bitachon thought hidden in Parashat Sav. One of the 613 Mitzvot is that leftovers from a certain korban (on the third day) is burned in the fire. There’s a concept called Notar - Whenever the deadline of a korban comes, you can't save it. It has to be burned. The Korban Pesach has similar laws. The Sefer Chinuch, in Mitzvah 143, says This is a hint to Bitachon/reliance on God. A person shouldn't choke himself on his food today and hide it for tomorrow. That's the message of Notar -that God is saying. Once the time is over, destroy it. Don't benefit from it. That is a hint to bitachon. Bitachon means I have what I need for today and I don't need to save it for tomorrow. Baruch Hashem Yom Yom Hashem blesses us day by day . The Gemara in Sotah 48B tells us that when the Bet Hamikdash was destroyed, with it ended the Anshei Emunah/the people of faith. What does that mean? The Gemara says it’s the people that believe in God. They quote Rav Elazar HaGadol that says, “ Whoever has bread in his basket today and says, what am I going to eat tomorrow is called Mikteh Amanah/people that are limited in their Emunah .” That's why the manna came every single day. The job of Yetziat Mitzrayim was to learn Emunah and bitachon and we had a 40 year training course. We had the manna to establish, in the heart of every individual, the Middah of bitachon. Day by day . As it says, D’var Yom B’Yomo, Day by day, Rabbi Elazar Hamodai says, “ Whoever created the day created the parnasa that comes with it. ” Rashi says, what does it mean that these people believe in Hashem? It means they're willing to spend their money on Mitzvot- Sedaka and expenses for Shabbat and Yom Tov. And this is important as the Pesach season is upon us. The expenses are through the roof but we have to believe, with Emunah Shelemah, as the Gemara says in Betza 15b, that all of our expenses are decided between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, except for Shabbat, Yom Tov and the money we spend on our children's learning. Therefore, all the money we spend on the holiday comes out of the slush account. The Zohar says that when someone eats and drinks on Shabbat or Yom Tov, it’s on Hashem’s account. Why is that? Because it's Hashem's meal. It's like Hashem is the Host and you're at His table. This is especially so on the holiday of Pesach, where it says, we're considered to be sitting at God's table more than at any other holiday. I'd like to share with you a beautiful story about the Brisker Rav. At the beginning of World War II, the Brisker Rav was in Warsaw. Each day, he would eat the food he had for that day; he would save nothing for the following day, fully relying that Hashem would provide for him then (as the Gemara in Sotah 48b says). Two days before Yom Kippur, although he had his regular amount of bread, he ate only some of it, saving some for Erev Yom Kippur, when there is a mitzvah to eat. “ One cannot rely on bitachon to fulfill a mitzvah” he reasoned. On the morning of Erev Yom Kippur, a Warsaw baker knocked on the Rav’s door. He was concerned that Rav would not have what to eat before the fast, so he specially baked several rolls and cooked a pot of fish as well as compote for him. However, the baker apologetically explained, as he rushed to bring these to the Rav, it all fell down and got ruined. The Rav commented to his son that he now saw that he was mistaken in saving food from the day before. “ Had I not saved the small piece of bread ,” he said, “ the baker would not have dropped the food, and we would have had plenty of bread and much more!” Obviously, this is a very high level of bitachon. But it’s important to know that there were people who lived this way, in times close to ours. The Brisker Rav’s daughter once turned to him when there was a grave shortage of food in Eretz Yisrael. She asked, “ What are we going to do? The price of food keeps rising!” The Brisker Rav explained that the Gemara says Not that our income is determined on Rosh Hashanah, but rather “mezonotav/ the amount we have to eat” is determined on Rosh Hashanah. Hashem assures how much we’ll have to eat, no matter what the price is. This is what we learn from the example of the manna. Even if a person collected twenty portions for his family of six, the extra fourteen portions somehow “disappeared,” and they were left with precisely the amount they were supposed to have. No matter how much a person works and earns, the amount he enjoys — his mezonot — is determined by Hashem, and is not affected by his efforts one way or the other. That is the important lesson of Bitachon, and we learn it from this week's Parasha, Notar , no leftovers.