It means reliance on God. It means not fretting over imaginary ills and grievances. It means accepting his decrees, even when we do not like them. This is comparatively easy to achieve when all is well. But the true test of faith is when all goes wrong.
Faith is only faith when there is no apparent reason or justification for it.
On the fast of Ab we read a poem which describes how some of the great Jewish sages were cruelly executed supposedly to repay the crime of Joseph's brothers who kidapped him. In other words, here are men who have done everything that religion and morality demanded of them. Yet they are cruelly punished for a deed they did not do. No, Judaism believes that a great responsibility is placed into man's hands. 17.10 This means two things.