One Tzaddik You Should Be Friends With #rabbiyaronreuven #orthodoxjudaism #inspiring

Anytime you see anybody else suffering, anytime you hear about an earthquake in somewhere in the world, in India, you heard there was an earthquake, 5,000 people died, or you hear that there was a war in some country, or you hear there was some type of damage somewhere, or somebody somebody the closer it is to you, the more it's connected to you. If somebody you know died, somebody you know is sick, somebody you know something happened to them, guess what? Part of the message is to you. Yes, he's the one that got hurt. Yes, he's the one that lost. Yes, he's the one that such and such happened to. But you still know him. If you had enough merit, it wouldn't even happen to him. Why? Cuz everything in Shamayim is midah keneged midah. It's measure for measure. Hakadosh Baruch Hu says, "If he deserves to get hurt, he deserves to get punished, I punish him, but only after I review everyone else that could potentially be hurt by it. If everyone else also deserves it, then he gets hurt. But if there's He knows a thousand people and one person is a tzaddik, and that person doesn't deserve it. In fact, he deserves reward, he deserves good. And when he hears that his dear friend from high school, his dear friend from yeshiva, his dear friend from the three companies ago got hurt, he's going to feel bad about it? That's not midah keneged midah. That's not measure for measure. I'm not going to hurt him, I'm not going to punish him, not because of him, he deserves it. But the guy that he hasn't talked to in five years, he doesn't deserve it. Meaning, if you had enough merit, you wouldn't see the bad stuff that you see. But if you see bad stuff, that actually means there's a problem with you, too. So, Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair says, "Woe unto me that I see you like this." Not just because it pains me to see you in pain, but it's also I know that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is talking to me and telling me, "Oh, I deserve this. I deserve to see you in pain. What have I done? Woe unto me cuz I don't know what I've done." Cuz if I would have if I would have known, I would have done teshuvah already. I would have fixed it. But then, Rabbi Shimon says a different concept. He says, "No, you're praiseworthy that you see it. You're praiseworthy that you see it. Why? Because you're only looking at it from the negative aspect. You're looking at it from the negative aspect, you see me in pain, you're seeing me suffering, and you're thinking, 'Oh, you deserve bad because you did bad,' and so on. No, no, no. What you're not seeing is that sometimes the only way that Hakadosh Baruch Hu can show you the beauty of the diamond is after you cut it a few times.