We Go Through Challenges - Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

However, most of us, when we think about Abraham's tests, and indeed when we think about our own tests, we imagine a nisayon, an impediment, something that's getting in the way. I have to live my life, I have to get to there, and you know something, there's a nisayon, and that nisayon is in between me and the destination I was heading to anyway. It would be better if I didn't have the nisayon, I would have got where I was going much faster. But you know what, life has challenges, and we need to get through them. But what we're learning over here from Abraham Avinu, is that we don't go through challenges, we grow through challenges. The destination on the other side of the nisayon is not the same place that you would have gone to without the nisayon. So instead of reading it, ba'asar nisyonot nitnasa Avraham Avinu, instead of reading 10 challenges that Avraham was challenged with, the word nes means to uplift. Right? This concept was that in 10 ways was Avraham lift