DVAR TORAH - Eikev - Rabbi Mike Kashnow

Kodesh Baruch Hu, loves us like a child. In the same way that a father only gives you yesurim [music] to a child because he loves him, Kodesh Baruch Hu only gives us yesurim because he loves us. True, wonderful, a beautiful idea. I think the idea may be a little bit scarier than that also. In the measure in which a [music] person is yesurim tonight, the way that a person does chinuch, if you look at your child [music] and you're mechanech him with anger, if you give him not the attention he deserves, if you treat him in a poor fashion, if you hurt him, the way that you do it, or if you turn to your son and you say, "You're a gem, you're just beneath you. You can do better. I believe in you." The way that you [music] are meyasir, you're mechanech your son, Hashem Elokecha miyasrecha. Middah kenegged middah, Kodesh Baruch Hu says, "That's the language you understand? You're going to need yesurim at some point." So, when Hashem needs to give [music] you yesurim, he's going to do it in a way, in a language you understand, the way the relationship that you have set is the way the relationship should be. That's how Hashem [music] will make the relationship with you. You want to have a relationship with Kodesh Baruch Hu with a father-son who you love him and he loves you, and the way he gives [music] you yesurim is a a kind, a helpful way, do the same for your son. Hashem should bless us we should lead full of a a life without yesurim, [music] but when there's a need, Kodesh Baruch Hu should give it to us with blessing and with joy.