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It is not only that this tradition comes to teach us the old platitude that often has truth with it that in every cloud there is somehow a silver lining. It teaches us something far deeper than that, namely that the ways of the Lord and therefore the vagaries of life are inscrutable, unpredictable and not given always to rational explanation and analysis. The Lord wants us to somehow inherit Canaanite treasure. But it is not given to us directly, clearly, simply. Rather it somehow comes through initial pain and disappointment, the apparent destruction of our house and the shame of being found residing in a dwelling of spiritual impurity. Only then when one has to pass through this series of difficulties - consultations with kohein, quarantine of the house and finally its dismemberment - does the apparent purpose and gift of God to the inhabitant of the house become apparent. We would all certainly prefer being granted hidden treasure and other good fortune be given to us directly and clearly. But that is not the reality of life. Many times in our lives we suffer disappointments and trials and only later are we able to realize how much true good fortune came to us through those seemingly unpleasant events. That is why the rabbis admonished us to make a blessing on seemingly bad events in the same manner that we make a blessing when we feel that good things have happened to us. For many times the "bad" event may turn out not to be so bad after all and therefore in life we are always bidden to accept what the Lord has granted to us.
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Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Our King on Rosh Hashana, Our Father on Yom Kippur.
Based on Aroch Siach, p. 221 (Rav Shaul Yisraeli)
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part II
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part II
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
Parashat Hashavua Happiness for the Right Reasons
[With painful longing, we share these divrei Torah from our co-Rosh Kollel for close to 40 years, Harav Moshe Ehrenreich zt”l.]
