Finding Purpose: Light in Darkness Amidst Adversity #shorts

what Rebbe Goldberg was saying is that a Jew lives beyond. And he turns himself in any situation, he says "This is no accident, so why was I placed here? What is my shlichus? I wasn't stuck here. I'm sent here." So then why am I sent? And some people obviously, you know, maybe right now we're sent to do this zoom. And a lot of people there are sent "Wake up, face your fears. Wake up and smile at your child even though you're terrified. Wake up and eat something cuz you haven't eaten a normal thing in hours. Try to nap in the bomb shelter because nobody slept normally in who knows how long." And people think, "That mind chatter, the negativity, the yetzer hara." He says, "Oh, well, what are you doing? What are you contributing? There's people on the front lines. They they're flying bombers in Tehran." Each person has their shlichus. And we never know whose shlichus is important by Hashem. And that's what the most difficult thing is, the internal darkness that says, "What are you doing already? Or you're a mess, or you have no purpose here." "What? My purpose is giving my kid Bisli in a bomb shelter?" Yes, one of my patients who's very very anxious and struggles with OCD in Israel told me this week that he's having a very rough go, he and his wife and his young child. He says, "But something amazing happened when they went down to the bomb shelter. Somebody had arranged Bisli, Bamba, coloring books and crayons." And aside for the kids having what to do, that sense that Rebbe Goldberg talked about, that the most light to have in the world, the most difficult thing psychologically is to be alone. When your neighbor, your fellow Jew thinks and brings but Bisli into that bomb shelter, you're no longer alone. And then you can take your shlichus and give your kid a Bisli with a smile in a bomb shelter. And when you're regulated and calm despite everything you're experiencing, what do we transmit to our children is calm and courage despite adversity. We don't pretend everything's okay. We can tell them, we could be honest with them, we could be real. But we can also give over messages of courage, of facing adversity, and finding meaning, and ultimately the highest level what we're seeing in mind-boggling ways is producing light in the darkest places, which what we know psychologically is the best way for post-traumatic growth, and much more importantly, we know that's the recipe for Geulah.