Rabbi Boruch Kaplan, a teacher of Chassidic thought in Jerusalem, gives a class on a classic Chassidic text at the National Jewish Retreat.The discourse provides deep insight into the value and contribution of an inevitable part of life: worryconnected to earning a livelihood.The anxieties associated with earning a living are compared to rushing waters that flood one’sthoughts and consciousness and seemto be only a distraction from our true purposein life and spirituality in general.