The magical expectation of a miracle and of easy livelihood is for those unhappy people who cannot partake in the greatest of all miracles: day-to-day life. Or, as Rabbi Elazar used to say, "Salvation and livelihood are analogous. . . . In the same way that salvation involves wonders, so does livelihood; in the same way that livelihood happens from day to day, salvation happens from day to day."
— Nilton Bonder, The Kabbalah of Money