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Basics of Emunah #9: Where Is G-d When It Hurts?

Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?

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Basics of Emunah #9: Where is G-d when it hurts?

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Dani -6 years ago
Question
Thank you again for your very empathic and cleansing speech, which helped us much. A minor question, if I may: Could you mention again the name of the Yid who leased great forests? I did not hear it clearly and I would like to mention your story to others.
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- Anonymous -6 years ago
  Rabbi Berel Meisels (Meislish). I think he lived in Warsaw.
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    Dani -6 years ago
    Thank you very much, Rabbi Jacobson!
    
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Anonymous -6 years ago
Emunah
Thank you.

Rabbi Jacobson you are truly blessed to be such a good shaliach for klal Yisroel.

I just finished listening to #9 and I feel that I was gebentched with a revealed gift from HaShem to allow me to get the answer that makes the most sense WE DONT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND ANYTHING!!!! I Deep down I had a fear who knows maybe one day with all my question & doubts I'll c'v become an atheist (in addition a lot of my close family members indirectly made me feel that something is WRONG with my way of thinking), and thank you for validated my question and concerns and giving me the chizuk hope and inspiration that I so needed.

You and you're family should be gebentched with revealed goods all the time! HaShem should give you the strength and ability to continue doing your avodos hskodesh.

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Yehudah -7 years ago
Emunah #9
Regarding Basics of Emunah #9, there is a point that I always mention, and that is whatever we encounter, painful or otherwise, is Hashem tapping us on the shoulder with a message. It's just that each individual has to determine what that message is for him. I can't tell someone else what Hashem is trying to tell him.

There was a story that happened pretty recently. I'm sure you know of the כלה who was badly injured in the bus accident on the 402 line. She became handicapped as a result. Her chosson's family pressured the boy to break off the shidduch, but he did not want to. However, one day the pressure got to be too much for him. He wrote her a long letter and was on the way to the hospital to deliver it to her. As he was crossing the street, a bus hit him, and he broke some bones including some of his ribs. (Very painful and not much to do about it.) I asked my chevrah, "What was Hashem's message to that chosson?" When they tried to tell me that the message was that it was cruel to break the shidduch or that he shouldn't do it, I told them that they are totally wrong. I don't know what the message was to the chosson. Only the chosson can figure that out. (BTW - he did not break off the shidduch and they got married in Adar.)

But each one of us who hears this story has to figure out what hashem is telling him! When the Chofetz Chaim saw חילול שבת, he made a חשבון הנפש as to what he needs to be מתקן with his own שמירת שבת.

I believe that this is a very important נקודה that does not come to explain why 'bad' things happen, but what we are supposed to do with anything that happens.

Yehuda
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Anonymous -7 years ago
Are challenges better than miracles?
I was wondering if you could please help me. I heard your wonderful shiurim,and I was really inspired,you changed my whole life.i now live with such clarity, so relaxed. However I have a question that really disturbs me. You so clearly described the whole concept of concealed goods and revealed goods, the more light, it blinds us - that's what tests are. Does it mean that nisyoines are better than miracles? challenges are better? f so,then how could it be that Hashem feels our pain. If it's good then it's not pain? and why do we pray for recovery? if it is all so good? I appreciate your prompt reply, and looking forward to hear from you asap as this question is bothering me.
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- Anonymous -7 years ago
  The answer is:
  
  In truth, in a higher reality it is good, but from OUR perspective is is painful. The ultimate good is that the light of Hashem should be communicated to us in a way that we can feel and appreciate within our own "kelim," our own identity, that is wonderful and good.
  
  Since Hashem has no limits, He can communicate His infinite light in a way that even our finite world can experience it as blessing. That is why we pray and daven for revealed goodness and the ultimate purpose of existence is for the deepest light of Hashem to be communicated in a fashion that we experience it as good and positive.
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P S F -7 years ago
A LISTENER WITH ADMIRATION
Rabbi Jackobson, this shiur is so beautiful deep and healing. I have listened to it already more then 10 times and made numerous people listen to it. In middle of the shiur, you said an amazing insight on the posuk "בִּלַּ֚ע הַמָּ֙וֶת֙ לָנֶ֔צַח וּמָחָ֨ה אֲדֹנָ֧י יֱהֹוִ֛ה דִּמְעָ֖ה מֵעַ֣ל כָּל־פָּנִ֑ים", I thought that one can add with this an explanation to a posuk in Tehillim - Psalms - Chapter 74, the posuk says שָֽׁאֲג֣וּ צֹֽ֖רְרֶיךָ בְּקֶ֣רֶב מֽוֹעֲדֶ֑ךָ the simple interpretation to this posuk is "roared have your oppressors amidst your meeting place.......", according to this, the posuk is referring to the oppressors the adversaries from Hashem, but maybe one can say that it is referring to the jews going through the pain and suffering that שָֽׁאֲג֣וּ they screamed צֹֽ֖רְרֶיךָ this is pain and anguish, but really בְּקֶ֣רֶב מֽוֹעֲדֶ֑ךָ the core the innards from their pain was (and is) מֽוֹעֲדֶ֑ךָ festivity and goodness from Hashem.............. May Klal Yisroel merit to see only good that can be seen with our eyes in our times Thank you from the very deepest inside me I love you
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