Rabbi Yechiel Mikhal lived in absolute poverty, but joy was always with him. One time someone asked him, "Rabbi, how can you pray, day after day, 'Blessed art Thou, Who sees to all my needs,' if you have none of what a human being needs?"
The rabbi answered him, "What I most likely need is poverty, and that is what I have been provided with all these years."
— Nilton Bonder, Yiddishe Kop