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The Shomer Emunim ztk’l elucidates on the passuk in Devarim (31:17), “….v’Heestarti panay meihem ve’haya le’ehchol um’tzauhu raot rabot v’tzarot… (… and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, and they will be consumed, and many evils and troubles will befall them…)”. The next passuk continues, “v’Anochi hastir astir panay bayom hahu ol kol hara asher asah… (And I will hide My face on that day, because of all the evil they have committed…).
Passuk 17 portrays one level of concealment to which Yisrael responds “G-d is not in our midst”. As a result Yisrael sinks to a second level of concealment called hastarat emuna (concealment of emuna) as we see in passuk 18. This passuk depicts our current times; the days of the coming of Mashiach. Our sages tell us we are living in a time of great sorrow and difficulty due to the challenge we face of holding onto our emuna these days.
From here we learn the first step to holding onto our Emuna; work to remember and respond to life’s challenges by thinking and saying, “G-d is IN our midst”. As the Ba’al Shem Tov HaKadosh ztk’l brings down, Hashem’s hiddenness breaks down the moment we trust that Hashem is always with us in all of our sorrow; loves and cares about us more than we can imagine and never leaves us.
Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of Devorah bat Miriam Pesel a 4 year old girl who is fighting for her life. May Hashem shower endless revealed compassion on her and all of Klal Yisrael who are sick and suffering b’rachamim, b’karov, Amen.
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