Starved In His Vault - R. Eliyahu Maksumov - TorahAnytime.com

There's once a very wealthy man, a fellow who was extremely rich, and he got up in front of a press conference and he made an announcement and he said the following very brazenly. He said that, "I'm so rich, I have so much money that one thing is for sure." And he was so confident when he said these words, he said that, "I am so assured of myself that I will never die from starvation." The last thing that would ever happen in this world is me dying from starvation because I have so much money, I have so much money I could afford all the food in the world. And he said that, "I'm certain that I will never die of starvation." A few days later, they found him dead. And where did they find him dead? He was He got locked up in his vault. It turns out that he went to check up on his money and the vault closed behind him. The door ended up shutting closed and he got stuck in there and he was screaming and screaming, but it was shut and it was There was no noise that could be heard from outside of the vault and nobody heard him. And nobody knew he was in there. People didn't even realize that he was gone. And of course, a few days later, they realized that something's wrong, he's missing. They went looking for him. They somehow managed to open the vault and they found him inside, dead. Cause of death, starvation. So, you see that this man put his reliance on himself. He put his reliance on his money, on his might, on his power. And you see that Hashem showed him and he shows us that even in such a situation, where you think you have it all going for you, at any moment Hashem could remove and take anything away from us. And you come to realize that you cannot rely on anything besides Hashem himself.