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A. The Prophet Yirmiyahu said: 'By the command of the Most High, neither good nor evil come' (Eichah 3,38). The Midrash explains that this means that ever since the day that G-d "set before you today life and good, etc." (Deut. 30,15), neither good nor evil comes from His command, but rather as a result of man's good or bad deeds.
G-d, for His part, would be happy to shower upon us only goodness. The problem is that we falter and commit sins, and this is what prevents us from receiving His infinite abundance. We take ourselves to places that G-d knows that if He were to give us goodness, it could harm and even destroy us. As such, it is we ourselves who cause suffering to come upon us.
We thank G-d for not despairing of us or giving up. He rather gives us chance after chance, keeping His eye on us even via the troubles we undergo. He measures out the exact amount of suffering that will cause us to return to ourselves and rise up, and thus be worthy of His salvation. What we are thanking G-d for is His constant supervision and providence.
Rabbi Yehoshua Weitzman
G-d's leadership in the world Doesn't G-d Also Cause the Harm in the First Place?
Translated and edited by Hillel Fendel
G-d's leadership in the world The Different Levels On Which G-d Runs the World & Transmits to Us
Ein Aya, Shabbat 2, 241
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Hosha'ana Rabba FLYDUBAI & HOSHANA RABBA- ANI VAHU HOSHIA NA- I & HIM SAVE US
"Ani vaHu Hoshia Na", "I and Him, Save Us". We don't just pray to Him, but we also pray to and for ourselves that we should emulate and educate our children to have that instinctive altruism with which He created the world. President Trump seemed amused about Yaniv Hayon, our PLUMBER who confidently worked with G-d like Superman (he learned from a pilot on a TV show!) to save 174 lives on the Dubai hijacking, but we in Israel are totally accustomed already 78 years to our plumbers, teachers, garbage-men, rabbis, farmers & doctors being Hashem's shlichim! This is what Zionism is about.
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
