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Daily Chizuk #1145
Parnasa / Money
Purifying the Mind: Hashkafa according to the Torah
If a person will do this and mention at least the main points here, he will fulfill no less than five different mitzvot:
1. Believing in Hashem’s hashgacha
2. Justifying what Hashem is doing to him, like it says in the pasuk כאשר ייסר איש את בנו כן ה' אלוקיך מייסרך– Hashem chastises us like a father to a son for the son’s own good.
3. Repentance by admitting that our sins have caused the affliction.
4. Trying to bring about mercy for the Jewish People at large, which is under the mitzvah והלכת בדרכיו – emulating Hashem
5. A mitzvah from the words of Tehillim – חסד ומשפט אשירה – which Chazal explain to mean, if a person receives open good from Hashem he is supposed to sing to Him, and if he receives what appears to be affliction, he is also supposed to sing and accept as well, happily, what Hashem is doing to him.
And if he also feels bad that when he is experiencing pain, the Shechina is in pain, and that bothers him, he will fulfill a 6th mitzvah – אם אשכחך ירושלים תשכח ימיני – which is a mitzvah not to forget about the pain of the Shechina in our exile.
1. Believing in Hashem’s hashgacha
2. Justifying what Hashem is doing to him, like it says in the pasuk כאשר ייסר איש את בנו כן ה' אלוקיך מייסרך– Hashem chastises us like a father to a son for the son’s own good.
3. Repentance by admitting that our sins have caused the affliction.
4. Trying to bring about mercy for the Jewish People at large, which is under the mitzvah והלכת בדרכיו – emulating Hashem
5. A mitzvah from the words of Tehillim – חסד ומשפט אשירה – which Chazal explain to mean, if a person receives open good from Hashem he is supposed to sing to Him, and if he receives what appears to be affliction, he is also supposed to sing and accept as well, happily, what Hashem is doing to him.
And if he also feels bad that when he is experiencing pain, the Shechina is in pain, and that bothers him, he will fulfill a 6th mitzvah – אם אשכחך ירושלים תשכח ימיני – which is a mitzvah not to forget about the pain of the Shechina in our exile.
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