Daily Chizuk #0999

Parashat Beresheet: Why Are You Getting Down
In this week’s parasha Beresheet, we read the story of Kayin bringing an inferior korban to Hashem which was rejected. Kayin then became depressed about it and Hashem Himself gave Kayin the perfect words of chizuk. He said, למה נפלו פניך – why are you getting down about this? הלא אם תיטיב שאת – if you’ll do good now going forward, you’ll be lifted up. If a person did something wrong, the yetzer hara tries to make him feel low so he’ll continue to sin. Hashem taught us the proper approach. We should accept to be better going forward and then act upon it right away. That will uplift us and that will bring us closer to Him. The same Hashem who told us what is considered an averah also told us that we could easily make teshuva from them and return back to Him.
The recipe is very simple. הלא אם תיטיב שאת – all we have to do is be better going forward and we will be lifted up to great heights.
Shabbat Shalom!!