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The once gave a muscle of a wealthy man
who had a son and the child got quite
ill. And of course he went to a doctor
and he offered a lot of money so that
the doctor would work on the boy and the
doctor saved the boy with great effort
and he warned the father that this child
he could never take even a morsel of
meat into his mouth and if he does he's
going to become very sick. He's going to
have a relapse and the father expects
that the child will understand and he
gives him the instructions. He says, "I
don't want to see you take any meat into
your mouth." And as life has it,
eventually the father goes off on a
business trip and the child sees a piece
of meat and he puts it in his mouth and
the child gets very sick and the father
comes back and he finds out and he
brings the child back to the the doctor
and this time he's even worse critical
condition and the doctor heals him
again. He says, "Listen, I saved him
again, but I don't know next time this
happens I'll be able to save him." And
the father was so grateful that the
child was saved. And so he wanted to
make a he wanted to make a Thanksgiving
meal. And he invites his entire family
and the entire community and all the
rabbis to this great meal. And he gets
up before the podium with tears in his
eyes. And he's about to express his
gratitude to Hashem. And suddenly as he
sees his child is walking towards the
the steak towards the meat. And he sees
his child takes the his hand and he puts
it on the meat. He's about to put it
into his mouth. The child, the father
plunges and he jumps and he across the
table and he grabs the meat out of his
son's mouth and he hits him and he
pushes his son and the meat falls on the
floor and everyone looks at the father
like he's so mean, like he's so cruel
and the whole place is utterly shocked.
How could this father be so cruel? They
don't understand that this child is very
sensitive to meat and it's bad for him.
And what looks so bad by his father
hitting him and he's pushing him and it
looks like he's so abusive. Really, his
father was saving him. his father cared
for him. And this is why we find
throughout history whenever we see cal
calamities in Jewish history. Whenever
we see God is sending us uh hardships
and difficulties, it's all remind it's
it's always reminding us that it's
coming out of our loving father. Look at
1492. The Jewish people were expelled
during the Inquisition. When did this
happen? It happened in the month of Av.
The month that the betish was destroyed.
The month of Av. Both times. uh World
War I, World War II happened in the
month of Av. The most ominous month in
Jewish in the Jewish calendar that's
earmarked for tragedy and calamity is
always the month of Av. Now, let me ask
you, what does the word av mean? Father.
Why is Hashem choose to send us all
these troubles in the month of Av to
remind us where is it coming from? Your
father. It's coming from the one who
loves you, the one who cares about you.
So, it's reminding reminding you where
it comes from. It's coming from me, your
loving father. So when Hashem hits us,
when Hashem gives us hardships, when
Hashem is smacking that meat out of our
hand and it looks like he's being so
mean and looks like he doesn't love us
and he doesn't care about us and he
doesn't want me to have the car I always
wanted and he doesn't let me have the
house I want. He doesn't let me have the
things that I desire so much in my life
and Hashem is smacking out of my hand
and he's not allowing me to to go and
enjoy from it. God says, "I'm only doing
it because I love you. I'm only doing
this because I care for you and I know
that if you do have this thing in your
life, it could hurt you. And I don't
want you to get hurt. I don't want you
to suffer. I want you to have it good.
And at the ultimate run, you will look
back one day and you'll appreciate what
I did was really for your ultimate
