Trust that Suffering is For the Good: Shaarei Teshuva 2:4-5 with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] on shari truva by ravina yona this is the safer we've been using we are in para in char bet we're in the second gate the second chapter we're going to be dealing today tonight this morning wherever whatever time zone you are listening in uh in paragraphs four and five i hope we'll get to five that's like a combination really it's like the the c it's like the it's like the climax here of what we're dealing with and i think it's fundamental i just want to mention before we start once again we are praying for the reforeshalema of ropinto yoshiyahu yosef ben zakri and his wrath hashem through our learning the merit of his complete and speedy recovery amongst all those of the sick of the children of israel and everyone else might as well we should definitely add the righteous gentiles in this as well so here we go beginning with paragraph four for those who are using the same safer that we are we're on page 140. this is absolutely fundamental what we're going to be discussing tonight one of the questions a student of mine asked me this week why do bad things happen to good people okay so since we talked about calamity let's call ye surim troubles before and to look for the good here we go and we did discuss rabbi ki the story right with the candle and the rooster and the donkey we're going to discuss it again in much more detail straight from the gemara but let's start this idea rabbinion is bringing is when these yeast serene these now what is is like even the word musar musa is chastisement it's an ethical teaching and that's what hashem does for us he lets us know where we are straying off so he gives us yireem he gives us messages of ethical uh teaching some people will translate the surim as punishment punishment i don't like that i don't like that term although uh let's call it difficulties let's call the challenges right pains difficulties okay so that's what they are but they're there for a reason god is not this avenging god who just wants to punish us he's a loving father who wants to see his child uh get the best out of life so here we go ravino yona is turning his attention to a person who takes hashem's message to heart and does truma for his sins or her sins so that's what we're dealing with someone who gets the message what is the attitude how should one think about it the cashier hashem so again one who receives the message the moussar messer's message interesting right the moosa the calamity the the the the long arm of hashem trying to wake us up the yeah um love and actually improves makes better improves their life it changes their ways for the better roy low it's fitting for that person she ismach okay this is like you have to breathe deeply for this that one should act it's fitting for the person to rejoice to feel simka over those again challenges tribulations you can call punishments i don't care but at this chastisement the yi surim why lethe because ultimately the person should realize that everything all was for your own benefit right there's a tremendous benefit that hashem was doing he was reaching out like i used the word with his long arm he's reaching out you have you're a little bit more distant right that's because you're you had sins you were a little more distant and he reached out to you and he brought you closer through these messages the yeast lo lo hodos le chem you should praise hashem and thank hashem i think this is like hello this is heavy stuff here kamo al-shar hats lahos just like when hashem is the obvious reason for your success when these troubles come to you you should be um thanking hashem for bringing these troubles these challenges upon you just like you would thank him for all your other successes shanahan now we're going to see two verses that i would say seem to contradict each other right if you have two verses that contradict each other there's a resolution what is the resolution let's go to psalms 116 verse uh i believe it's 13. i just want to read number 12 as well how can i repay the lord for all his favors upon me he's done so much for me how can i ever repay him coast yeshua's essa right i'm raising the cup of salvation how much thanksgiving can i possibly have it's right i can never pay him back but i have to we'll be shame hashem those three words we're going to see in the other verse that will seem to contradict i'm thanking hashem for the salvations in the name of god i call out shame hashem now go earlier on in the same chapter verses three and four so it begins by telling you when this is king david again when bands of death surround me these are obviously enemies these are not such pleasant experiences and the boundaries of the grave befell me and now here are real words here and i found trouble and grief obviously this is usurim these are the troubles these are the [Applause] the challenges and how does it end this verse or the next verse and i called out in the name of hashem will be shame hashem ekra in the name of god i call out but what does he say please save me lord save my soul okay so there's a a called direct connection between these two verses happens to be in the same paragraph which is already a connection but you're talking about when these things are going great and you're calling out in the name of hashem for the salvations and when things are going in the opposite direction they don't seem to be going so great and yet you call out in the name of hashem what what do you mean you're calling out in the name of shem in both cases yep so here we see from here we see the dove and mellow king david he thanked hashem both when he was saved from troubles and when he was in the midst of the troubles okay now there is a gemara that we're going to see and i'm not sure maybe we should do it now we should do it now okay so this is a gemara brachot 60 d we did discuss this a little bit uh la i think it was in the last class um but we're now going to see it inside ravuna said that rav said that ruby mayor said and redmond mayor was a student of rebecca by the way and so was taught in a bryce in the name of rebbe akiva now we're going to have to hear the hebrew a little bit because i actually have a hebrew version and actually i don't have it here i just have pieces because we're gonna have to deal with that i have an unbelievable piece from the ben yeho yada who discusses so it says always a man should be regul a man should a person should accustom themselves to say so keep in mind even though the english doesn't say it one must always accustom see the word always is lay alarm and accustom is ragil well which is it we're going to discuss is it always or just accustom yourself but let's not get bogged down let's see the big picture one must always accustom themselves to say everything that god does he does for the best in aramaic called everything that hashem the merciful one that's his name everything that the mercy from one does for the good he does for the who what does that mean for the good of mankind for the good of the world for me he's actually doing me a favor when i see things as right back people will see didn't look so good right we talked about what is it called the candle the chicken or the rooster and the donkey their demise certainly to a person who needs to survive it doesn't look so good but we saw in the morning wow everything is for the good so let's go through the piece again the gamora relates like this incident when ruby akiva was walking along the road and came to a certain city he inquired about lodging and they did not give him any no room at the inn no vacancy he said at that moment everything that god does he does for the best keep in mind he does the best for me he went he slept in a field and he had with him a rooster a donkey and a candle just keep in mind the name he in hebrew tarnagola that was the rooster the hammer maybe it's not hebrew it's aramaic but it's okay everyone knows what these words all right tarnagol as opposed to tarnagola a hamra as opposed to hamur and ashraga that's the same in hebrew i think shiragi is a candle and a gust of wind came and extinguished the candle a cat came and ate the rooster keep in mind right now he's using the gamora is using the word zika for wind the word shunra for a cat and a lion in arya came and ate the donkey he said rabbi kiva said everything that god does he does for the best now that night an army came and took the city into captivity it turned out that rebbe kiva was alone who was not in the city and had no lit candle he didn't have a noisy rooster nor did he have a donkey that could have given away his location and therefore he was saved and he said to them not sure what does it mean he said to them didn't i tell you everything that god does he does for the best rahuna said that ralph said the name of rebbe mayer this is i just want to add this in it's part of the gemara one's words should always be few before the holy one blessed be he as it says this is in ecclesiastes that is cohellis be not rash with your mouth and never and let not your heart be hasty to utter a word before god for god is in heaven you are upon earth therefore let your words be few okay what do we see here it's an amazing piece and i think that this is a little bit distracting that we're going to go deep instead of forward but it's it's it's worthwhile as you know i do like to bring the ben yahooda yada and on this piece of gemara he says a lot okay so i want to spend a few minutes discussing this idea because it's deep so he begins by telling us the verse the the statement that gomorrah made leola yes always a man should be a person should be accustomed to say keep in mind the word lei alam is always and then the word ragil means a custom to say of the min everything that hashem that the heavens do it's all for the good okay so now he says it seems like that there's an extra word here i don't get it it's either leolam or it's regul either always say it or accustom yourself to say it why use both see he says like this it's it you wouldn't need like it wouldn't be necessary to teach this if someone sees things let's say occurrences sees things that come out let's say they are called natural phenomenon natural occurrences but even if you see things that are natural currents in other words if they were outside of nature of course you would say it's hashem but what happens when it is seemingly from nature you wouldn't say it you know what you would say or you shouldn't this is what it tells you should not say you should not say this is just nature when things appear just naturally you miss the bus okay so i gotta play it i had an extra sip of coffee i had a problem with turning the lock and i missed the bus it's all from hashem it sounds natural it doesn't matter even when it's purely natural you shouldn't say it's just a i'm using he doesn't use the word coincidence i'm using the word coincidence meaning it's just natural just happens it's just random no but rather you should believe that everything happens with hashem's you know details his touch his influence and everything is happening to you is happening for your benefit now the fact that it says regeal the person says right it says one should be accustomed and it doesn't say in other words in the hebrew it says leola so means always a person should be accustomed to say it doesn't say accustom yourself to always say it says always accustom yourself to say i know it sounds like we're nitpicking but the word is not related to what you're saying is more like the attitude that when you come to say it you should be regul to say okay what's why because the word regiel i just want to for those who are not familiar with jewish law like i know that many of you are like if somebody if somebody does something three times in a row it becomes like a custom and therefore it's like you even even you didn't verbalize that you've accepted this custom but the very fact that you did it three times it's a hazaka it becomes a strength and therefore depends what the situation is one may become obligated to always follow through and do these acts became binding as a custom just keep this in mind because what he's saying is a person should accustom himself to say uh these things um so he wants to discuss he says when it comes to posting meaning in halakhah there's certain sakhalaka where the word regiel means that if someone that's several times it's like once this happens several times we use the word regiel like if someone came to me as a rabbi and said rabbi for three times i did so and so i went to the mix on or i started wearing a garter belt or i started to do uh put on to phil and robina tom or i started to buy a certain hecture they want to know if they're bound or not bound to this to this idea so there's a thought that it's only if you do this thing three times that is what the language of ragil implies so here in this in our situation there actually was three types of nezik meaning damages right we talked about the candle going out the rooster being eaten and the uh the um the donkey being chased away or eaten so you're having three naziks now he actually did say rebecca actually did say all is for the good from heaven he did say it three times but he said it at different times the first time he said it was when when he didn't get any room at the end then after three occurrences he said it again and then when he woke up in the morning and saw that they were taken captive he said it a third time so interestingly enough this uh let's just say the theme of three ragil is being used we'll have to investigate that a little bit the kosei the imcos nevertheless the idea that everything that happens from heaven is for the good even if it happens three times so in other words it sounds like there's a parallel not only saying it three times but the fact that you recognize it after three occurrences and this is what it means one should be regeal even if he sees three things that could happen simultaneously or even one after another that appears rock it appears as a negative consequence i just want to tell you another i just want to go on the side i know we go off on tangents the um the tanya explains right we all know no evil ra comes forth from hashem but obviously he created it and it exists so it's like with his he's withholding his blessing to a certain extent that's one idea in terms of the ra but the the tiny explains it differently it says like this that what we call good is revealed good and that which we call evil is just hidden good so it's really upon us to see the good that's hidden i know it's a very difficult idea to to grasp right but so there is no evil that penetrates that that comes out from hashem it's all good there's obvious revealed good and we relate to that as good and we actually make a bracha hatova metis somebody wins the lottery or somebody inherits a lot of money so they make hatova native they they right something good happened to them unfortunately when somebody passes away a close relative or something new we say baroque when bad news is is heard and yet i know this is very difficult but the halacha says that you have to say the same the brock in the same way well it can't be because it's a different new sock it's a different different words so we understand it means the attitude has to be the same the same joy you say when you successfully you know succeeded or received such a a fantastic experience right that joy you have to have the same i know it's very difficult emotion and you know what it doesn't have to happen right away but you know that that's how it has to end you have to get to that point where you could actually see the good it's hidden it's hidden but it's there and you can understand what what it means now to say the baroque in the same way that you say khatov ahmeti okay so going back to where we left off the idea here is that it seems like the reishi tavos reishi tables means the acronym when we take the um the words um the shraga shraga was the candle khamra so you have the shin you have the hat the head of the donkey and the tarnagol the tornagoli to the the rooster it actually spells the word shahad shah means destruction so rebecca was able to see obviously this is this is very destructive and yet in it's not a coincidence in other words the fact that it was these three things and the acronym for all those three things come out to something that could be very uh you know negative nevertheless within the negativity he was able to see the the positive okay that's one aspect another idea is it also hints that that all these happened to him in his uh environment that happened however at that moment the karish baraku was oyster bishop while hashem was performing these three seemingly destructive acts that he lost them that night how through a ruach the race the acronym for ruach is rage arya is an aleph for the lion so you have the wind which is an r the arie which is in aleph and the the cat is called a shunra and that's a shin so it spells the word roche what is a roche i don't know if we're going to get into the other part i know i have i don't want to get i don't want to get guys to get lost but anyway so roche means the head but also hints to the idea that it all happened in the merit of torah in the merit of keeping the torah hopefully you'll be able to see the the rosh the rosh be who's the rosh hashem of course but even the word breishit the very first word of the torah is resheet rosh the torah itself is rosh also israel is called rosh okay i think that was just a little taste because there's really a couple pages and i really want to stick with this so we can already get just a taste of what's going on here in the mystical worlds when bad things happen okay let's go on with the brebena yana by the way tonight today where i am in israel we call pesach shami so pesach cheney is about second chances and i think this is very apropos because when somebody experiences the asuri because of their own what's called mistakes right sins and the person hopped the message they they they got the message from hashem and they did chew uh unbelievable we're talking about the attitude one should have before during and after and just like king david said right before it before and during his his experiences bashem hashem calling out the name of god let's continue rebecca yonah cites the teaching the sages regarding the benefits of suffering sorry it says in khazal and the truth is it's based on if they're not mistaken this certain idea what i do with my book i put it away okay and we'll get to it in a second uh when yaakov and all right let's just stick to the text i don't want to get too far out of myself so it says mr hillem rabbi liazer benjako said the whole time that a person is experiencing peace and tranquility there will you won't find atonement for your sins you know when we saw yaakov yaakov the the anger of joseph came upon him what does it mean the anger of yosef yoshi was sent away right from him for 22 years he sought he prayed that to hashem i want shalva i just want to just chill out i've lived a long life i just want to now experience java a saddique should know this world is not about shalva it's not about tranquility you will experience troubles and tribulations that's what this world is it's just it's a fact so a couple things happen first of all he actually was upset that when the brothers you know told you they didn't know they were talking to joseph but they told about the other brother this even brought more anguish to yaakov and he actually called them out he says you know you're ruining my life by telling this man he didn't know joseph about the other brother and this even brought more troubles he wasn't cognizant of the fact he wasn't being real with everything happens for the good and it really was for the good because this saved the jewish people right that they went down to egypt and there was a famine in the land of canaan and they were able to survive and of course joseph himself became viceroy and whatnot okay so when one is um in the absence of adversity they will not be inspired to do truva now we're only talking about you know most of us we're not perfect see i'm like close to being perfect no i'm kidding i wouldn't even say that right like troubles come troubles come and if you think like let's say you're in denial you say i'm perfect and all these troubles are all the other people's faults you'll never grow this is like the we talked about this last week that was like the worst thing you could do for yourself but if you take it to heart and do truva wow so through the affliction all your day yes through the affliction whom it come you're actually pleasing hashem you're pleasing the father and we're going to discuss how the father is pleased when the son the child is awakened to his wrongdoings it says in mishlai that's proverbs chapter 3 verse 12 which translates when hashem admonishes he's the he admonishes whom the one he loves i'm not making this up this is king solomon hashem admonishes the one he loves like a father who favors his son so oh yeah i'm just flying through life in fact the gamora warns us that if in 30 days if you don't have a bad dream or 30 days you don't have some negative consequence that happens to you you better start worrying okay so nobody's that perfect like me nobody's that perfect meaning like me not that perfect not that right nobody's that perfect hashem is the father who favors his son hashem the kiba musaro you know when hashem is favoring the sun when the sun accepts his chastisement i mean any parent should know this right kedark it's the same way just like hashem so too the father surely favors his son when the son accepts the admonishment and it changes his way he improves his behavior so robin yonah provides an alternative explanation to the verse the yesh lafari showed we can explain as follows is a little bit different admonishing people for their sins hashem is like the father who only admonishes the son who he views favorably so now that if we know that so i mentioned before many times that the prophets did not come to admonish the people who would not listen they came to talk to the ones who would listen so to hear you know you're privileged if you experience some of the these consequences it means you're in the upper one percent i i really don't know it could be 99 but you're in the upper echelons of society in god's eyes right that he loves you so much that he expects you to change and that's why he's talking to you otherwise he'll let you go and just live a shalva dick of life the odais i'm sorry i skipped something no because the people who are not listened he's given up he's given up hope and he's convinced that the admonishment is is futile and we're talking about a human father we're talking about hashem as well so we understand that as long as we're being afflicted that is a good sign okay romano yonah cites a verse in which hashem criticizes those who remain unaware of the benefits of chastisement so now we know that being chastised is a positive thing make sure i'm on the right page here and we're on page now 142. the the name so now regarding those this is said regarding those people who don't recognize the goodness of hashem's rebuke of hashem's chastisement and obviously all the benefits that come from it so there are three verses they're all in isaiah i'm sorry hoshaya hoshai and i'll just tell you the verses so you can look them up the first verse is shaya hosea 7 13 then 7 15 and then skip to chapter 11 verse 3. okay so here they go think deeply about these words i thought to redeem them yet they have spoken lies about me and this is obviously hashem god the eff day i wanted to redeem them the media because of him but they're not giving me god any you know they're not thinking it's true they're obviously lying they're not they're not honest with themselves they're saying i didn't sit on perfect why are these bad things happening to me oh it's the other people's faults right okay that's one problem then in verse 15 vani yasarti as for me god's talking i afflicted them i thought to strengthen their arms make make them better yet they think evil of me so obviously through the affliction they don't get the message and they only want to think negatively of of hashem and then i mentioned in a chapter 11 verse 3. now the word of rhyme here is referring to the jewish people i have taught ephraim to walk hosea was a prophet of the north taking them by their arms so i taught the jewish people i taught specifically ephraim to walk taking them by their arms but they did not know that i attempted to heal them right in other words by the long arm of hashem through the chastisement right because that's what does it mean teaching them to walk i'm guiding them and they're not paying attention they didn't know that it was me who's trying to heal them okay so that is all the first part now we're now in number five uh paragraph five another attitude that someone who endures your story should adopt so now we're talking about an attitude and the attitude is like we said earlier everything is for the good the yesh al-habbo shame so someone who truly trusts what does that mean that he should remain hopeful even in the midst of darkness and distress let me just stop here for a second why do you think hashem created the world night first i mean you know even the gentiles right they think i don't know exactly what they think i should say i don't know if the day begins at night then you have like midnight then you have like in the middle 12 hours of day so six hours a night 12 hours a day and then six more hours of night that's not a jewish concept sorry okay we begin our day at night that like maybe i shouldn't use the word day because that's misleading we begin a time period that we refer to a 24-hour period we call day it begins at sunset which means the first half of what we call a day the time period called day is dark and when is the darkest part right before the dawn this is a hint to us the ula the redemption comes at the end of the darkness right light represents redemption light represents right intimate um redemption okay so now with that attitude another attitude that someone who endures jesus should adopt here we go okay we just read that that the actual present darkness that you're in is the cause for the eventual light i know that's also a very hard thing to grasp but let's look at prophet michael chapter 7 verse 8. do not rejoice over me my enemy meaning this is the darkness though i fall i will rise though i sin in darkness hashem is a light unto me this is what the attitude you must have you have to know that yes it's dark but it will turn light uh in mr hill also the imalais what does that mean had i not fallen right it says that sonic falls seven times but gets up had i not fallen in the first place i never would have risen had i not sat in darkness i never would have experienced light i mean this may get into the idea of what we call you know free choice to be able to even understand what it is between our choices between tovara good and evil whatever we have in this world is only an illusion it's all to hint about the real world the world to come all the prophets that prophesies about all the good things that happen those good things are not even in this world in the world to come we're living in a world of darkness that we it's illusions we think you know we like that chava that someone thought they were experiencing what a waste of a life i mean they're we're talking about the real shah is in the world to come okay anyway so had we not fallen and it could be you know um people who had drug addictions people had different traumas in life this is only to strengthen them their character to make them better people it's all from hashem i know we want to blame the person that abused us we want to blame the person that first gave us drugs we want to blame society for our troubles the bottom line is that everything is from hashem and the choices we make and the attitudes we make are also going to be a huge difference in our life i do like there was another piece in the uh ben yoda and i have to find it it was absolutely amazing here it is regarding this idea that it says everything that happens from heaven is for the good so you have a question in here what's the big hitters what's the big novel idea that we're saying this now didn't we already say this from the very beginning that each and everything that occurs to a person and anything he hears he should always say this is from hashem so it seems to the ben yoda that the intent here is that a man should actually open their mouth a person should say these words it's important to bring these vibrations into the world say it even if there are these horrible gezeras very bad seemingly bad decrees guess what it's possible to negate them it's possible to override them to overturn them yes and it happens through our attitude and through our speech that's why what that you see right now that everything is happening for the good meaning bishfield the imri lahu mikara that you're looking at it from the very beginning that all that happened until now was all for the good therefore my mouth that i opened was for the good that that is causing meaning my attitude as well as my verbiage my my mouth moving it's maybe it's just an attitude and a hope but believe it or not it can be overturned and it's not just a prayer you're bringing tove into reality say it say it maybe even like say take it till you make it even if you don't believe it say it make yourself believe it know that it's true it is true that you're uttering it's truth that you're uttering you really like a custom to open your mouths for the good i'll call davar even if it appears negative in other words the laboratory rebbe said think good and it will be good i'm who am i to add to his words but this is the venue and i think what he's saying is that the attitude is the great starting place for sure right the uh the la bavajo rebbe but take it one step further and verbalize it make it real say it okay okay so the next idea is each and every person vocal ish we're now on page 143. each and every person when they're experiencing these negativities these distressful situations they should direct their thoughts to understand the cause of the assuring remember what were the cause our sins now it might not mean me it might not me be me personally maybe i'm a kapoor from israel right because i'm perfect no i'm kidding i'm really close right no i have to fast i either have to fast or afflict myself because what does that do that gets rid of my ego right if i think i'm high and mighty and i'm like near perfect so if i fast i realize i'm not that which i thought i was i'm frail i'm only human i'm you know flesh and blood i got aches in my stomach i got pains in my head whatever it is that you experience when you're fasting it's a humbling experience okay so that's what you need to do hopefully that would bring you to some objectivity but the prayer also helps i just want to mention i don't want to get banned on facebook i just want to mention or youtube or anywhere else in this world for this matter i just want to tell the truth that a halal pandemic is very different than what we're experiencing today and you can even say look the rabbis never called everyone to the open squares for to feel a bit seaborne to pray as a group and to fast because of some type of pandemic society has every right to make up any rules they want like to wear a mask or to social distance or whatever as preventative method measures for something but you notice the rabbis never called this um because the rambam brings down that in a city in other words if if there was a plague in a city then you would have to go out and fast and afflict yourselves and pray it's so necessary when negative things happen we didn't do that the reason is the problem says in a city of 500 healthy men healthy men three people dying every day consecutively for a few days would be considered a plague that you would require this type of response you can add up the numbers all you want in any city right we know i'm not going to mention what we're talking about for those who know what i'm talking about you're talking about older people you're talking about people who are ill we're not talking about healthy so 3 out of 500 healthy young people dying every day consecutively or more would require an onslaught of panic so to speak meaning go out into the public squares and call for uh prayer sessions and fasting that that didn't happen because those numbers didn't add up to what we call halal pandemic or plague okay doesn't matter we must feel we have to look around the world and see the pain that people are going through for losing jobs for being not able to see family that is we should have gone out for that we should have prayed anyway that's not a halal pandemic but it is a reason to cry out to hashem so every person should do this right accompanied by prayer and repentance that's what a community is required to do to fast and afflict themselves when there's communal distress and we have experienced communal distress there's no doubt about it question what exactly was the distress cashier just like the rabbis of blessing memory decreed young razon that this is the choice fast in the eyes of hashem that will find favor remember the idea that if you do true this and change your behavior this finds favor in the eyes of hashem okay now we're going for the last few sentences here until now robina yona discussed two possible reasons a person might endure these usurim these troubles and tribulations one to help you atone for sins right it's a message measure for measure meet a canadian media right how do you know we're going to talk about you have to examine your you have to examine your own actions do they match up and how do they match up according to the again punishment the stress how does it match up how am i able to figure out the message that hashem is giving me for what i need to change and also to spur you to do repentance now he says and there's also a third benefit and that's unrelated to a transgression that a person has committed and i've discussed this before and it's called isuri me ava distress that's coming from heaven strictly out of love something we have to understand i already discussed the idea the real reward is in the world to come now someone who's near perfect like me i keep saying i'm joking right so someone who is not perfect but has some sins hashem may want to and will want to right why not give this person the ultimate bliss reality forever so he will cause some troubles and tribulations now in this world to erase to make a pair to atone for those persons small sins in this world and give that person the ultimate in the world to come and this is called yesurin because you did a nephesh you did your calculation and you know you did this small sin and this small sin but the travesty the the the tragedies that have occurred just outweigh it's not measure for measure so you know after doing an honest bone that this must be out of love and to accept that is really what the madriga that we should be on and we'll have a verse to to talk about that but let's go into the rabbina yonah he says like this the kashay of moussa al-ish the ashar when these troubles and tribulations when the chastisement comes from hashem to a person who is zach the ashar who's pure and upright hello then it doesn't right what's going on the the previous ideas don't apply because it's not going to help you atone for your sins and it's not going to spur you to repentance because you don't need it but rather yelling it's rather it's there to give you a test and to increase your merit in the world to come i would say similar to job but anyway that's the words he uses it's a test to see how faithful you are and that you're loyal to god and the purpose is to increase your reward in the world to come commotion them are just as it says when we were in the wilderness in deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 16 when um it by the mind right the mana it's a review of what happened all this was in order to afflict you and in order to test you to do good for you in your end what is your end the world to come so the rabbi said regarding this type of gisurim this is another gemara broncos basically when when yusuri come to you right troubles and difficulties that means that means check out your deeds examine your deeds be when you're experiencing these consequences the pace of the car really did dig deep examined well and if you examine well the low massatech and you're being truly honest with yourself and you didn't find any cause for this present distress meaning there's no sin hain hanus then you could be assured that these assuring these pains that are coming to you is solely out of love and in order to increase your reward in the world to come now i would mention there's a lot of comments on these pages that i did not read i didn't go into that will help put everything into focus so i just wanted to give the rough idea i actually have i have somewhere to go so i wanted to wish everybody i'm going to stick around for a few minutes for the people in the zoom to answer their questions but i wish everybody a fantastic right we have pesach cheney tonight we have logba omer coming up er i think it's thursday night shabbos we there's a lot of good things i know there's a little a lot of crazy stuff going on in the world in the world i don't want to even mention what they are but stay keep the faith have hope and examine your deeds carefully and thank hashem like king david just like coast yeshua that's what hashemic raw right i lift a couple of my salvations i thank so too when i'm in my time of distress whatever that distress is it could be small things it could be big things it's it's there's a workout a workout to figure out how you can see the ultimate good and the ultimate good hopefully will come sooner than later by knowing that hashem is sending you a direct message so pray to hashem for clarity it doesn't hurt he loves you and he answers you okay so signing off have a great week and a great life see you next week [Music] is