Sunday, February 7, 2010

The worst day of your life might be the best! how is that possible??

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  1. luv613February 7, 2010 at 9:34 PM

    Wow! I am so awed by the words of Rabbi Brody! The truth of the matter is that when one really has firm Bitachon in Hashem, they will live a worry-free life. If you realize that all of what may seem as suffering are really gifts, then what is there to complain about in life? Shlomo Hamelech wrote in his sefer Mishlei
    (3:5) "Bitach El Hashem Bechol Libecha, Ve'el Binascha al Tishaen"
    The literal english translation is: Believe in Hashem with your Whole heart, and don't rely on your understanding. The Chazon Ish comments on this pasuk that a very common mistake that people tend to make is that they think Bitachon is believing that only good will happen. But since Hashem is the One running our world, sometimes we may not be able to understand why the events that occur in our lives are good.
    In her book "Miracle Ride", Tzipi Caton relates the trauma of being a 16 year old girl, and all the sudden of being diagnosed with lukemia. It was not easy the months she spent sick, but she writes of how she was grateful for the experience. She felt like she matured in a different way than her peers. In life, we may not realize the lifelong lessons we can gain from a difficult experience we may encounter, but having firm Bitachon in Hashem can help us get far along the way.

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  2. B'Siyata D'ShmayaFebruary 7, 2010 at 11:58 PM

    There was actually an article in this past week's Hamodia magazine about Rabbi Brody's life and how he became a baal teshuva (he touched upon it in his speech,...). I just read it today!

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2010 at 12:11 AM

    btw just a correction on luv613 tsipi caton had hodgkins not leukemia (im only correcting you because t amkes a big difference in the story of her life.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2010 at 12:18 AM

    Wow that was powerfull! I was thinking about a nisayon in my life. About 6 years ago, my cousin was niftar- he just deid one night in his sleep- he left a wife and 4 young children, so in that sittuation like all others we felt the yad hashem along with us the entire time in the way that their lives played out. B'h within this nisayon there was a lot of bracha in it too. the family was able to see the bracha, and make the best of the situation that was so tramatic. i understand the goodness in everything except that without him being niftar all these brachos wouldn't be relevant and wouldn't have to had happened. i don't understand th initial reasoning behind his pitira or the bracha in it. so im not really sure how to see the goodness in this traumatic nisayon. maybe you can clarify? thanks!

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  5. DevorahFebruary 8, 2010 at 5:55 PM

    Anonymous - I don't think we can give you an answer as to why your cousin was niftar, just like I can't answer why my brother Shalom a"h was niftar. We do know that every neshama has a tafkid, a job, and once the persons job is complete, they return to Hashem and get to enjoy all the pleasures of olam haba.

    One thing I can tell you is that if a person dies in their sleep, it is painless for them and it is a special way of passing on. It can be compared to the misas neshika that Aharon and Moshe were zoche to! Your cousin must have been someone very special to have died in a way that is not at all painful. I don't have answers as to why he had to die at the time that he did, leaving a wife and young children, which is definitely very, very painful! But you should remind yourself that he must have finished his job in this world because once a person is done, they do not need to live in our world, they get to live with Hashem and enjoy the pleasures of the next world and get rewarded for all the good deeds they have done! He is the luckiest person to have gotten there already!

    Although we cannot understand the reason why we went through certain painful things, sometimes we can look back and see how much we changed and how much we grew because of what we experienced! And that is the secret to emotional self healing!

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  6. luv613February 8, 2010 at 10:33 PM

    Something actually came to mind as i thought further about this topic. About 3 weeks ago, I really wasn't feeling well. I had no appetite to eat, and I felt extremely nauseous. My diet was very limited for that day. The next day, I was Baruch Hashem feeling a lot better. I realized what a bracha it is that we have an appetite to eat. Do we ever think about how lucky we are to get hungry and have a desire to eat?? It's a blessing! Imagine if we never had a desire to eat, eating would be such an annoying task to do! The only reason why we would eat would be to maintain our existence! But Hashem made food pleasurable and desirable. We should try to appreciate even the little things Hashem blesses us with.

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