Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Why?

by Reb Meir at Yesh Ma L'Asot

Reb Noson (of Breslev) says that salvation comes to those who wait for it. Even though in the interim a person must literally go through Gehennom – all types of doubts and feelings of failure and futility (“maybe I made a mistake in the decisions that I’ve taken in life? etc) a person is tested to see how much he is sincere and determined to follow the truth – the real truth.

Rebbe Nachman says the real truth is the truth of Hashem, namely that a person always seeks out HaShem and His ultimate advice and guidance in whatever he goes through. And for this a person must pay the price to determine how much he is firmly founded in this pillar of life. Thus the main thing is not to give up no matter what Haman/Amalek manages to convince us with.

May we truly blot out Haman and all the doubts that he has hurt us with and may we rightfully gain back all of the holy sparks that he has stolen from us since the beginning of time.