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Daily Chizuk #1044
Weekly Parasha
Help is Always Possible: Messengers Sent to Every Place
Complete Mercy
A woman who was waiting for over ten years to have a child was finally expecting. But then, in the later months of the pregnancy, she had a miscarriage. People were asking how Hashem could do that to her. It would have been better if she was never expecting at all. The woman herself, however, was full of emunah. She recalled a Devar Torah that she once learned.
The Yalkut Shimoni in parashat Ki Tisa says there are two ways in which people receive blessing from Hashem. One is in the form of a reward and the second can be explained with a mashal of a man who owed 100 gold coins to the king which he didn’t have. When the king’s men came to his door to collect, he begged them to give him one more day. This man was a friend of the king and when the king found out that he didn’t have the money, he sent someone in the middle of the night to drop a pouch of 100 gold coins through his window. The next morning the man found the pouch and was so excited that he had what to pay with. He proudly went to the palace and paid off the debt in full. This was a pure chesed from the king. If he would have just let this man off, he would have been indebted to him for the rest of his life. Instead, he allowed him to feel good that he was successful in repaying the debt.
We never know the reasons of why Hashem deals with an individual the way He does in any given circumstance. But we do know that it is always with complete love and mercy and if we did know the reason, we would be thanking Him to no end. For now, we can have emunah that it is mercy, even though it doesn’t seem that way, and earn immeasurable rewards for trusting Hashem even when it is so difficult to do.
A woman who was waiting for over ten years to have a child was finally expecting. But then, in the later months of the pregnancy, she had a miscarriage. People were asking how Hashem could do that to her. It would have been better if she was never expecting at all. The woman herself, however, was full of emunah. She recalled a Devar Torah that she once learned.
The Yalkut Shimoni in parashat Ki Tisa says there are two ways in which people receive blessing from Hashem. One is in the form of a reward and the second can be explained with a mashal of a man who owed 100 gold coins to the king which he didn’t have. When the king’s men came to his door to collect, he begged them to give him one more day. This man was a friend of the king and when the king found out that he didn’t have the money, he sent someone in the middle of the night to drop a pouch of 100 gold coins through his window. The next morning the man found the pouch and was so excited that he had what to pay with. He proudly went to the palace and paid off the debt in full. This was a pure chesed from the king. If he would have just let this man off, he would have been indebted to him for the rest of his life. Instead, he allowed him to feel good that he was successful in repaying the debt.
We never know the reasons of why Hashem deals with an individual the way He does in any given circumstance. But we do know that it is always with complete love and mercy and if we did know the reason, we would be thanking Him to no end. For now, we can have emunah that it is mercy, even though it doesn’t seem that way, and earn immeasurable rewards for trusting Hashem even when it is so difficult to do.
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