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UPDATE ON RAPHAEL YITZCHOK ISAAC AND CHAIM MICHO-EL SHLOMO B’NEI MICHAL GROSS (who were poisioned by extermination fumes): Hodu l’Hashem ki tov, ki l’Olam Chasdo!
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What does it mean to truly trust in Hashem? We may intellectually believe in the concept that Hashem does only good. However at times in our lives, things happen that do not appear good at all. So we ask ourselves, “If it is good, why does it not appear so?”
On our revealed level of understanding, many occurrences in this world look and feel bad. Yet, on a hidden level, they are really good. They are intended for our good. Often with the passage of time, we are privy to see this inner goodness, yet sometimes not. Our emuna is regularly tested at those points in time when there is a conflict between our interpretation of events as they appear bad and Hashem’s promise that everything is in fact good. Emuna is not challenged when we can logically interpret Hashem’s intervention as good.
The chief method to developing emuna is not to rely on our definition of good. This method transforms our way of thinking and believing since no matter what we think and how illogical and irrational it may appear on the surface, we elevate our thinking from finite to infinite. This mode of thinking transforms us and B’H it is in this merit that we can make a change in our situation.
If we see good only in that which our limited intellect declares as good, then we bind good only according to our dictates and leave no room c”v for Hashem. Our world then operates through the mindset of ‘me’ judging everything according to my mindset which then closes our world and doesn’t allow G-dliness to enter.
Yet when we expand the viewing platform of the endless possibilities why Hashem has willed things to be like this, we alter our reality. Consequently, we are transformed and this makes us worthy to see revealed good in our situation.
Today’s Daily Dose of emuna is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of my uncle and aunt Rachamim ben Esther and Sima bat Miriam. May they be zoche to a complete healing b’riut hanefesh vb’riut haguf amongst all of those who are sick and suffering in Klal Yisrael, Amen.
