Rav Hutner's Letter

welcome welcome back to living higher for this week I want to read a letter from ritak hun a letter that RIT hun wrote to a married individual who is struggling bemoaning the fact that he once held such lofty aspiration such lofty goals and he didn't know where those aspirations went he feels that like all hope is lost and run writes to him a letter that it is such a powerful letter it has such tremendous trem tremendous so many tremendous tremendous tremendous especially considering the fact that it's coming from a like hter so I want to read this letter I took the liberty of translating it and we'll go through it and I hope that you'll get the out of it that I that I got so this letter could be found in writes your letter reached me and your words have touched my heart you should know khabibi your letter contradicts the descriptions it contains and I'll explain to you why I'm making this assessment and at the end of the letter we'll understand what he means by this line but he says hner says it's a problem that when we talk about the Perfection of aradim we talk about the later stages of their heights we tell over about their perfection while skipping over their inner struggles which raged in their souls the impression that we get of Ouran rauna writes is that they were created with their stature for example everyone talks about how pure the speech was but who knows the battles the struggles the obstacles the falls and regressions the experienced in his fight with theara is saying in this first paragraph he's saying we're so used to a GLE being a GLE that we think that this is the way they were born they were born being a GLE we don't realize the fights that they had with theat Sahara to get to this point to get to this lofty level that we know of them right now and runter writes what comes out from this is when someone with ambition and aspiration sees that he's experiencing struggles regressions and Falls he views himself as not having been planted in the house of Hashem why because in his view to be planted in the house of Hashem means to live with Tranquility of the Soul on a Green Meadow beside the water enjoy the Y the way that sadik enjoy the and to not be angry that you're encountering thear along the way but you should know writes that the root of your soul is not Tranquility but rather specifically the war of the yov against the Y Sahara again is writing that some what happens because we're so used to think of our on being at such a lofty level we don't realize the struggles that they went through to get to where they are so when we see if we have Ambitions if we have goals if we have aspirations and we see that we're struggling withar we start to think oh man you know I'm not cut out for this I'm not planted in in the house of Hashem why because I don't have this tranquil path that the sikim have that they're just there with of har and they're just doing everything right everything perfect look at me I'm struggling I I can't do it I'm not doing it what's runter saying the root of your soul is not Tranquility it is the war of the against the Yahara and R writes from your letter it is evident that you are fighting this war there is a saying in English lose the battle but win the war and run writes you have surely stumbled and will stumble again and you will fall in many of these battles however I promise you sayar hutner that after you have lost these battles you will emerge with the wreath of Victory on your head why because it's not about the Battle it's about the war lose the battle win the war the point is the struggle with the the point is not to give up the point isn't not to have the struggle run continues the wisest of all people SCH said that sadic falls seven times and he gets back up Cesar of hutner the foolish people think that what does it mean come that wasn't mean that theic falls seven times and that he gets back up the foolish people think that what that means is that sadic fall seven times and still he manages to get back up despite the fact that he fell he manages to get back up that's what sadic is says no the wise people know that what it means is that the ascent to becoming aad the way to become a sadic is by Falling times it's by struggling with the Atara by Falling Down losing that battle getting back up trying again falling down losing that battle getting back up trying again that is the path to becoming a tadic it's not despite the Falls that you've gotten back up it's because of your Falls it's the fact that you are struggling with the Zahara and you keep on getting back up and you struggle and you get back up and you struggle you get back up up that is what makes you into and he brings down the P says saw everything that he made and it was it was very good the he brings down says that is referring to said he saw that it was good this referring to is good but that it was very good what's referring to is referring to thear good is referring to the the very good that's referring to thear and he continues the letter in that vein he says I will hold you close to my heart and I will whisper into your ear if you had sent me a letter telling me how well you were doing meaning how you how the was the one influencing you how good everything was going for you how they weren't any struggles there weren't any problems I would have said that I received a good letter T it's good it's a t is T now that you told me RA writes about your struggles and your Falls I will say that I received I will say that I received a very good letter from you and he explains it's like a huge storm when you are striving to be great I beg of you he writes don't picture to yourself that gim and the T are one and the same rather imagine that the gum are at war with all of their lowest and their basis Tendencies and here's the kicker here's the kicker rter writes when you feel the aara storming within you you should know now you are more comparable to the gim even more than in times of calm that you desire it is specifically in those places that you find yourself being pulled down that you become capable of increasing COV sh again is saying when are you more comparable to a not in times of calm not in times when everything's going good and you're not having any issues you're not having any you read this you're not having any neus you're not being besieged by theara even though that's what you want and even though that's what you desire that's not when you're comparable to the gum say wonder when are you comparable to a GLE and specifically in the places that you find yourself being pulled down when you feel the it's hor storming within you now you are more comparable to the gum and it says it's at that point they become capable of increasing coverage Shay what does that mean you're capable of increasing so you have to think for a minute when a person's faced with an Aion what's going on on to that point when a person is besieged by theara and there's something that he really wants to see he really wants to do he wants to listen what wants to go whatever it is at that point it's like you're getting a message from Hashem saying I need you to step up to the plate right now this is your moment this is your time that you could say I am going to step up to the plate I going to overcome this inan and this is the greatest way to bring K Shay rutner ends off the letter by saying I write these words to you so that you can peruse them from time to time and it is so important for ourselves also to think about these words that again come from a GLE like or hutner these words of whenever we're feeling down whenever we feel like the struggle is getting too much for us to handle whatever we're feeling dejected to refer back to this letter look at it inside read it a few times print it out have this letter handy so that you can refer back to it and her Hunter ends off with a PS he says now you understand the opening line of my letter which was that your letter contradicts the descriptions that it contains what does that mean you started off how you're in a low Place how you've lost aspirations how you're falling how far you are from being a God how far you are from being the person that you want to be it's the exact opposite it's that struggle it's those you read us those that feel us and the getting back up and the struggling and the not giving up that's what's going to build you up we're here to struggle with our Yahara and to try to overcome we're not here for a ride on Easy Street that's not what we're here for people think you know if you have a Yahara that's an AA it's a problem for having a Yahara there's nothing wrong with having a Yahara we're supposed to struggle with a Yahara that's how we grow that's what turns us into the people that we want to become let's try to live a little higher and let's realize that this is what it's all all about it's about the fight it's about the Battle it's about the struggle it's about getting knocked down but getting back up and not getting back up despite the fact that I get knocked down it's getting back up knowing that I'm going to get knocked down again but I am not going to give up the fight no matter how long it takes even if it's my whole life I will fight with the aura because that is what I am supposed to do that is how iire beov sh