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Daily Chizuk #1237
Parenting / Family
The Olive Press: Finding Light Through Pressure
NO MATTER WHAT
A person’s emunah is very precious to Hashem and when a person has every reason to complain, or to be angry, yet he still has emunah, that raises him to the highest levels. That is one of the ways in which a person can catapult himself to greatness in a very short amount of time. Our nation, throughout history, has had steadfast emunah. The hardships and difficulties that we have to endure only make our relationship with Hashem even stronger. The pasuk says in Shir HaShirim, מצאוני השמורים הסובבים בעיר הכוני פצעוני – the watchmen who make rounds in the city, found me, beat me and wounded me. The Chofetz Chaim used to think when saying this pasuk, the Jew throughout history had to take so many punches and bruises, even people who were supposed to be guarding us attacked us instead. The Jew has been tormented, disgraced and ridiculed everywhere he goes. Yet despite all of our hardships the pasuk continues, אם תמצאו את דודי מה תגידו לו – when Hashem will finally reveal Himself in the future and we will see the radiance of the Shechina, what are we going to tell Him? שחולת אהבה אני – that we were lovesick for Him. No matter what we went through, our love never dissipated.
At this time, Klal Yisrael needs a lot of merit. Our ability to be moser nefesh and serve Hashem now, although we are crying inside and we have reason perhaps to look the other way, this will give us tremendous zechuyot and, b’ezrat Hashem, the merits of our increasing our avodah should protect us and give us the zechuyot needed to end this galut bikarov. Amen!
A person’s emunah is very precious to Hashem and when a person has every reason to complain, or to be angry, yet he still has emunah, that raises him to the highest levels. That is one of the ways in which a person can catapult himself to greatness in a very short amount of time. Our nation, throughout history, has had steadfast emunah. The hardships and difficulties that we have to endure only make our relationship with Hashem even stronger. The pasuk says in Shir HaShirim, מצאוני השמורים הסובבים בעיר הכוני פצעוני – the watchmen who make rounds in the city, found me, beat me and wounded me. The Chofetz Chaim used to think when saying this pasuk, the Jew throughout history had to take so many punches and bruises, even people who were supposed to be guarding us attacked us instead. The Jew has been tormented, disgraced and ridiculed everywhere he goes. Yet despite all of our hardships the pasuk continues, אם תמצאו את דודי מה תגידו לו – when Hashem will finally reveal Himself in the future and we will see the radiance of the Shechina, what are we going to tell Him? שחולת אהבה אני – that we were lovesick for Him. No matter what we went through, our love never dissipated.
At this time, Klal Yisrael needs a lot of merit. Our ability to be moser nefesh and serve Hashem now, although we are crying inside and we have reason perhaps to look the other way, this will give us tremendous zechuyot and, b’ezrat Hashem, the merits of our increasing our avodah should protect us and give us the zechuyot needed to end this galut bikarov. Amen!
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