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Baruch Dayan HaEmet with sorrow Eliezer ben Feivel (Sima) has passed away, yesterday’s dedication. May the family know of no more sorrow.
Today’s daily dose is dedicated to the refuah shleimah Yisrael Yehuda ben Elka who fell and banged his head. May he merit a complete healing among all of Klal Yisrael who are sick and suffering b’karovb’rachamim, Amen.
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We were given a promise from Hashem. If we perform our task faithfully and with emuna, Hashem will shine His blessings upon us. Even if we cannot see it, we are being cared for.
When a person has complete emuna in Hashem, he merits the gift of being shown Hashem’s personal involvement in his life. There are two reasons for being granted such a gift – one is as a reward for his trust and the second is in order to not disappoint him. You see, when we place our wholehearted trust in the Borei Olam and do not merit a yeshua, it could c”v leave us with such anguish and possibly lead to a chillul Hashem. Hashem does not ‘want’ to dishearten those of us who genuinely place our trust in Him and so He reveals His presence. The key word though is to those who one hundred percent trust Him.
Sefer Michtav m’Eliyahu writes that Hashem decreed on the Jewish people to make an exerted effort in all endeavors of life in order to mask the idea of miraculous happenings. We cannot rely on miracles and therefore must involve ourselves in the natural order of the world. Borei Olam, though, is ‘hiding’ inside the day-to-day routine of life.
From this, we can derive a valuable lesson. When our emuna is strong, we need to invest minimal effort yet we will still be shown Hashem’s loving kindness in the outcome. For the person who lives with emuna shleimah, there is no difference between nature and miracle. For him, it is one and the same.
Sefer Kedushat HaLevi teaches that if we believe in natural cause-and-effect, then Hashem will bring about the chain of events through those means and further hide His involvement. By contrast, for the one who wishes to expose Hashem’s presence and seeks Hashem’s doing within every event, Hashem will reveal to him that nature is but a lie and has no significance whatsoever.
