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‘Ein k’Ahmcha Yisrael’ – Ahm Yisrael is kadosh. On the tip of most Jewish tongues, regardless of their Torah observance, or how difficult one’s situation is, the words ‘Baruch Hashem’ is found, words that profess gratitude and emuna. In this zechut, Ahm Yisrael experiences bitachon and happiness and are able to cope with life’s challenges.
Emuna refers to trusting in Hashem’s ability to help and guide us through every circumstance; it does not mean that Hashem will deliver what we desire. It is important to understand this well; emuna is belief in Hashem’s intimate interaction in our lives however not that Hashem will fulfill our wants.
Based on the above understanding we can deduce that life’s disappointments and a weakness in one’s emuna are related what we perceive is lacking in our lives and requests gone unanswered. When a person is left with an unsatisfied desire they naturally fall into a state of worry, frustration and protest. But what is really causing this negativity to creep into one’s life? A sense of lacking; ‘There’s something missing.’ The outcome of experiencing a void is the erroneous belief that things are not going as they should.
An important thing to remember is that Hashem fulfills all of our desires, all of our true desires, to the degree that is perfectly fit for us. Hashem knows our size and our fit and gives us what we need according to the ‘size’ of our neshama. A person’s real ratzon is directly linked to that which he really needs; what his neshama needs. Everything else is not a genuine need but only an invention handed to us by our yetzer hara.
Today’s daily dose of emuna is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of Gila bat Sara Amalia. May Hashem grant her a complete healing from postpartum psychosis and grant her husband Chaim Leib ben Masha Sara koach to cope with this difficulty. May no one from Klal Yisrael know of any sorrow and be showered with yeshuot and nechamot, b’karov, b’rachamim, Amen.
