In the tranquility of his soul, the ease of his heart and how little he worries over his worldly affairs, he will be like the alchemist, the one who knows how to turn silver into gold, and copper and tin into silver, through wisdom and work.

And more: one who trusts in G-d has an advantage over him in ten things.

The first of them: the alchemist needs special materials for his work, without which nothing can be completed for him, and he does not find them at every time and in every place. But one who trusts in G-d, his livelihood is assured to him through any of the means of the world, as the pasuk says, “In order to make you know that man does not live by bread alone, etc.” (Devarim 8:3). For no means is beyond Him at any time or in any place, as you know from the matter of Eliyahu with the ravens, and with the widow, and the cake baked on hot stones and the jug of water; and the matter of Ovadyahu with the prophets, who said, “I hid a hundred men of the prophets of Hashem, fifty men to a cave, and I fed them bread and water” (Melachim I 18:13). And it says, “Young lions are in want and go hungry, but those who seek Hashem will not lack any good” (Tehillim 34:11), and it says, “Fear Hashem, His holy ones, for those who fear Him have no lack” (Tehillim 34:10).