The True Reason for Financial Hardships

An answer from the Rebbe to someone who wrote about his hardships in Parnassah:

אולי החסיר לאחרונה – בשיעורי בתורה וכיו”ב בעניני מצות.

אשר זהו בטח הסיבה הפנימית (ובמילא גם האמתית) להעדר ההטבה בהנ”ל.

Perhaps you have caused a deficiency lately – in your Torah studies and the like in matters of Mitzvos.

This is, most certainly, the inner reason (and therefore — also the true reason) to the lack of improvement in your abovementioned financial hardships. ■