In Isaac Bashevis Singer‘s “I Place My Reliance on No Man” (collected with other short stories in Short Friday) Rabbi Jonathan Danziger goes to pray in his synagogue one Monday morning. As he prays, he encounters a crisis:
When the rabbi came to the words, ‘I place my reliance on no man,’ he stopped. The words stuck in his throat.
For the first time he realized that he was lying. No one relied on…