Problem or Solution? By R' Joey Haber

I don't know if you've ever seen story story that wow Hashem made it work out. There was a challenge. Hashem made it work out. 80% of those kinds of stories I could question. I can I could kind of maybe challenge. Why did Hashem have to create the problem in the first place? Hashem created the fact that there's no parking spots and then he gave me a parking spot. Why did he just make it in the beginning that there was a parking spot? Hashem made it that I lost the account and then I got a new account. Why can't Hashem just make it that I never lost the account in the first place? The answer is this. And someone I know recently, her child was hit by a car. Really, the child was in a wheelie thing and it was hit by a car. It was dragged by the car a little bit. And the kid came out perfectly fine. I said, "You could say." And the woman was said to me, and the parents said to me, "It's clearly the hand of Hashem." I said, "You could say it's the hand of Hashem, but it was really the hand of Hashem. Why couldn't the car just turn in a different corner? Why do I have to turn in a way that hits the kid, but the kid is fine?" So I think the answer is this that Hashem sometimes does stories where he makes the challenge and then he makes the solution in order for us to realize that it's him. If the car would have turned on a different block, you never would have realized it's from Hashem. If a person didn't lose the account and then get an account, you wouldn't realize it's from Hashem. If you were trying to park your car and there was a spot right away, you would have said, "Oh, wow, that's from Hashem." But when there's no spots and then all of a sudden the spot frees up, you say, "Wow, that's from Hashem." So sometimes Hashem brings not just the solution, it brings the challenge and then the solution to make us realize it is him. [Music]