Healing with Meaning: Gam Zu L'Tovah - Harry Rothenberg, Esq

i want to share with you a personal story that i hope will provide some hazard as it did for me i have a very close relative who was admitted to the hospital with an infection a severe infection but thank god after they did the tests they realized that they had caught it in time and that it would be reversible treatable he'd have to spend three weeks in the hospital but scary as it was he'd be okay and of course we know that chuva and tefila and dhakas virinus rohan gazera if we repent and we pray and we give charity it can avert a bad decree so we did those things and i called on my reservoir particularly in the first couple days there was still uncertainty as to how bad it would be and what the after effects might be and reminding myself that we know that everything hashem does is for a reason we don't ask why we don't say mud do well we don't demand the answers we ask not even loma for what what might hashem want from us to do more and so we did more and i'm sure i also said during that time period during those few weeks he was in the hospital [Music] okay this too shall pass to quote but i'll tell you one thing that i didn't say i didn't say gomzoulitova the same way that i did actually come to visit each one of you and you told me what was going on very difficult illnesses sicknesses i wouldn't say to you gum zulutova of course we know that everything hashem does is for the best let me tell you what happened in this instance while my relative was in the hospital during that three-week period during a routine exam they heard an abnormality in his heart and then did some emergency testing and found out that he had a life-threatening cardiac issue that required immediate heart surgery they did the heart surgery it was terrifying but it was successful and afterwards the surgeon came out and told the waiting family members you have no idea how fortunate you are that we caught this while he was here because it was that close it was that imminently life-threatening so i realized that infection that was so upsetting saved his life if he didn't get the infection he's not in the hospital if he's not in the hospital they're not doing a routine check every day and if they're not doing that routine check they don't catch it it seems that the worst would have happened and i realized that's what every bonus is that's what every single says it's tough to say it's tough to hear because we don't realize that it doesn't seem when you're home sick especially very very sick this is definitely for the best but it is because it's called machine that's why someday the awesome love of lovato buff it's going to turn into a holiday it's really always been a holiday only two holidays are going to remain we get that one and tisha because for the same reason the same way during the prom story everything flipped around at the end we realized oh hashem was orchestrating everything the whole time the tish above also we'll get answers eventually and we'll realize that everything we're going through as difficult it is as painful as it is was for a reason and it's for the best a number of years ago my mother had a very difficult period of time it lasted for years where she went from hospital to hospital surgery to surgery difficulty illness and a rough with whom our family was closed kept saying to her you have no idea how much hashem loves you he's paying very close attention to you each one of these things is another example of how much he loves you and each time the robe would say that to my mother she would smile and she would say rabbi maybe hashem could love me a little less that's a cute story and of course she was kidding it's very difficult when feeling the pain of illness or sickness injury very difficult to feel hashem's love in fact it feels the opposite how can hashem do this we have to just remember we may not find out for a long time but it is love us and everything he does is the best