''Everything will be okay in the end.... if it's not okay, it's not the end..'' [that quote has been attributed to several different people, but it was actually written by John Lennon and more recently made famous in a movie called The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel which I happened to watch on TV the other night.
When you are taken down in any way, or are inflicted with some kind of terrible event, and you begin to lose faith and wonder why this is happening to you..... that's a very good quote to remember. It's not the end. We haven't got there yet. Terrible things are happening everywhere and most of them are there to bring us back to Hashem.... the lower the descent, the higher the potential ascent. In Hebrew this is ''Yerida l'tzorich Aliyah'' - descent for the purpose of ascent.
You can't rise to the highest highs unless you have experienced the lowest lows.
And so it is with the world... the lower it sinks, the higher it will rise when Moshiach's time has come. It is necessary that the world sinks to the lowest point possible, because the coming of Moshiach will cause it to rise to the highest point possible.
So appreciate your suffering for what it is.... a stepping stone to a higher level of existence.
3 comments:
Thank you Devorah for posting about pain and suffering and that its all for us to get closer to Hashem. Its so hard to accept that Hashem really want us to experience so much pain. Acceptance of and gratitude for the suffering... Its a high level for the tzaddikim. Rabbi David Ashear wrote "what seems like challenges here in this world will be transformed into diamonds in the Next world", (Living Emunah, Vol.2, pp.188). I am ready to cash in my challenges, its time, Moshiach has to come.Please Gd, bring Moshiach now! Amen
'it's time for the suffering to end'. May Moshiach come speedily, in a blink of an eye! Amen!
Thank you for continuing your blog. 馃尮
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