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So many times in life people go through
different challenges and you see the
most wonderful amazing person go through
such a struggle like I know somebody
personally in my life that amazing woman
went through a terrible divorce and I'm
like how could such a thing happen to
such a person and we see that in our
personal lives we see that by our
friends and we see that on a national
level and in this week's para I would
love to shed some light on that major
question we find a fascinating gimar and
brais
6a that the gmorrah brings the p that
says thear
yolas after leia had six children that
were sons she had a daughter dena and
the gimar brings on that pekk
that she dav to hashem that she should
have a daughter why
she realized that After having six of
the six of the tribes and the shif, the
maid servants already each had two. That
would leave only one
of the tribes to be from her sister Ra.
And that she could not accept. And she
dive into Hashem. She said, "Please make
this baby a daughter." And that way my
sister could at least have the amount of
tribes as the shifas
just to think about the sacrifice and
the caring and the thought
of Leia.
But let's follow the story. What
happened to her daughter Dena?
Dena is kidnapped by Shrem and defiled.
One could think how could such a thing
happen to somebody that had such a
sacrifice and such a thought and such a
care that her daughter should be
defiled.
But when we think and we follow the
story further, the child of the
relationship of Shem and Dina was a
woman by the name of andas Jacobino put
around her neck the name of Hashem and
sent her away. From this relationship
there was a daughter born by the name of
Annas. Osnas ended up being adopted by
Potifa.
And when Yoseph Hatsadic
was rised to second in command of all of
Egypt, who was given to him as a wife,
this woman,
which they had two children, Minasha and
Afraim. And Yakovu said about these two
children, Minash and Afraim, that they
are to be on the level of the level of
the tribes.
So what happened when we thought about
in the beginning that she was ready to
give up a tribe?
She ended up having two tribes. And the
truth is this idea we could totally see
in our own lives. The kasam s one of the
great sages of the 1700s points out a
beautiful point on a puss that says that
hashem told Mosher Rabenu that my face
you will not see but you can the
you can look in the back and he points
out that this is an idea that Hashem
always shows us that in front of us it's
so hard for us to see there could be
pain there could be fog we don't know
what the right way is to go we ask
Hashem for signs it's unclear to us. But
take a moment right now.
Look back at your life and you will say,
"Wow, it's so true. Think about it for a
second. Just take a second right now to
think and look back at your life and
you'll say, "Wow, that happened and
totally that had to happen for me to get
to this." And because of that, that
worked out. We were we could take a step
back, look backwards. We see the
beautiful
in all of our lives. But the truth is
that even though so many times we can
see certain answers in our life and we
could see how things make sense,
sometimes we just honestly don't know.
And that's where trust comes in. You
know, with my child sometimes like I
take away a candy from my kid and he has
no idea that I'm taking away because he
does not want to be screaming in the
dentist chair, but he's screaming away
like I'm doing the worst thing to him.
And I want to bring out this point with
a beautiful
parable from the
on this idea.
Them says
the judgment of Hashem is truth and the
righteous
altogether.
And
brings out a parable as follows. He says
there was a man and the man was very
very wealthy and the struggle of wealth
is not always easy and there are
different places that he fell based on
that and his ego and he mistreated
people very much based on the sign of
wealth. and he comes up to Shmayim and
they're judging him in heaven and
they're back and forth. What should we
do? And they say, "You know what? We're
going to give him another chance,
but he has to come back, a wealthy man."
And he pleads. He says, "No, you have no
idea what the struggle of being wealthy
is, the type of challenge it is to be,
what you have to go through." And
finally, they listen to his pleas. And
they let him come down as a poor person.
and he comes down as a poor person and
he's struggling and he gets this job and
this job doesn't work out and rent is
hard and somehow he figures it out and
he turns to Hashem and he says why why
are you putting me through this but does
he have the lens of the full picture I
would just like to conclude with a story
that was posted actually many years ago
on h.com the story was that there was a
student that his girlfriend dropped him
and this kid was devastated he lost it
he said no she was mine. She was the
perfect thing for me. And she was
crying. He was, you could not console
him. He said, "It's over for me. I'm not
interested in life anymore." And his
rabbi sat with him actually an entire
day and was on the phone with him. And
he said, "Trust me, you have what to
live for. You don't know why Hashem does
things to people." And he says, "There's
no way. She was perfect for me."
Anyways, the story goes, life moves on.
And about maybe five years later, he
gets a knock on the door and who comes
to him? the student and the student
says, "Rabbi, you have no idea what you
did for me." So he says, "Please
explain." He's like, "You know what? I
went forward and it rung in my head what
you have told me.
I am married today with two children.
This woman who I was dating, I was
struggling. I was a teenager. She ended
up getting arrested for substance
abuse." Could you imagine the life I
would have lived with her?
Hashem, I was able to look over my
moment and I pulled through with a
beautiful wife and children. May we
always be za to have and live when it's
not always easy
to live with the gamul toba that
everything is for the good and we should
grow and have a positive attitude.
