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ALL FOR THE BEST (Rav Desslers section title)
There are many attitudes one can accept in this lifetime. When troubles come, we can either collapse or know that these troubles are for our own benefit. How can this be? None of us like situations of pain and discomfort. Discomfort is the perfect word, not comfortable.
Rav Dessler: All for the best is the attitude to life which was irrevocably acquired by Abraham.
MH: I love this concept of irrevocable attitude. People who think life is random cannot understand such an ability.
Rav Dessler: Abraham withstood the trial of the famine and likewise many other trials and tribulations.
MH: One thing I've learn, especially when studying Mishlei/Proverbs is the word vicissitude. Just when you think that you are finally at peace a change occurs.
Rav Dessler: Abraham's heart did not fail him in spite of all his troubles because he was unshakeably convinced of the goodness of God and the infinitude of His mercies and bounties.
MH: What a beautiful legacy of potentiality. The Jewish People have an indescribable inner power passed down from this one of a kind greatness.
Rav Dessler: However numerous and grievous the hurts and persecutions that we suffer and have suffered for thousands of years, we do not give up. We know in our heart of hearts that all is for the best. .
MH: If you ever take the opportunity, look up Nachum Ish Gamzu.
The things that do occur are tests, nisoynos. According to the Sages, reality as we know it is not reality at all. Everything we go through in this foyer to the banquet hall called life, this testing ground, is for our own good. It is hard to understand in the moment, believe me I know full well. Psalm 126 speaks of this. When God returned the captivity of Zion we were as dreamers.
Jews who are lured by false promises of 'enlightenment' and enticing gentile culture will be awakened from their dream. There will be a time, due time.
Rav Dessler: The evil we experienced in the long night of exile, and which we thought at the time so real and so fearsome, will turn out to have been nothing but a bad dream. The reality, as we shall then see, is and always was nothing but goodness and love.
Micha 7:8
Do not triumph over me, O my enemy; If I have fallen, I rise up; If I sit in darkness, God is light unto me.
Rav Dessler: On this our Sages comment: "From the very falling is the rising; from the very darkness is the light. (Yalkut Shimoni, Michah, 558).
MH: If you find yourself slipping into despair, fight. Do not ever roll over and play dead. The test is how hard you are willing to fight to believe Ha Kodesh Baruch Hu.
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