Why is the Summer so Hard? | Rabbi Nachum Binder

Summer is here. Summer vacation, Bein Hazmanim, family trips. Wandering in places that we don't usually wander the whole year. And with that come tremendous Nisyonos in Shmiras Ha'einayim. And as the years go on, the Nisyonos grow only stronger. I want to share a Hergesh that I recently had about this. We know that there's nothing in the world that happens by accident. The Ribono Shel Olam runs the world with clear precision. And anything that happens, when it happens, how it happens is with a reason. Why is the summer so hard? Why did the Ribono Shel Olam make the summer as the time for such tremendous Nisyonos in Shmiras Ha'einayim? And I think that the answer may be very simple. What follows the summer? What follows the summer is the preparation for that awesome day when מלאכים יחפזון וחיל ורעדה יאחזון .ויאמרו הנה יום הדין We all know that on that awesome day of Rosh Hashanah and the days following it leading up to Yom Kippur, everything and anything that will take place the following year is decided on that day. And the Ribono Shel Olam wants us all to be Zoche to only good. But nothing comes for free. We have to earn it. And the best way to earn a שנה טובה ומבורכת is going through a summer with the Nisyonos of Shmiras Ha'einayim with tremendous Nisyonos that we don't experience the whole year and working on it and overcoming it and becoming stronger from those Nisyonos. The summer Nisyonos are not challenges. The summer Nisyonos are an opportunity for all of us, amongst Ganz Klal Yisroel to be זוכה to a כתיבה וחתימה טובה.