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the only way for them to to really truly
understand uh why God is testing them is
through the T by learning by delving
into it and truly trying to understand
why is this difficulty happening to me
why am I lacking this why am I having
this hardship a health issue or whatever
it is and one of the things that I could
certainly consider myself an expert in
is hardship I've dealt with a lot of
hardship in my life and for all of it uh
because all of it were was and is
something that was using to help me but
to get from uh why is God doing this to
me to that he is doing this to me are
obviously a uh you know it's a long
stretch between the two it's a long
stretch between the two and let uh not
anybody understand that we want hardship
it's that we actually need it so there's
a difference between wanting it and
needing it needing it is simply because
a knows that what you need better than
you do wanting it is obviously you have
to be sadistic to want hardship so again
we don't want hardship uh we like to
have a pleasant life that's full of
blessing and to go to uh the Eternal
world with even more blessings but what
can we do that a knows that we cannot
get to that uh Destiny uh without uh to
that destination without uh uh some
hardship along the way so it's important
for a person to understand that uh when
it comes down to hardship when it comes
down to difficulty there's no one in the
world that dealt with as much hardship
as abah ainu and one of the things that
we're introduced to that's one of the
most important stories that you're ever
going to hear is in this
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week's says to
go for yourself from your land from your
relatives from your father's house to
the land that I will show you so here
aadh is telling us first and foremost
he's introducing us uh to AB even though
it already started at the end of last
week's par Noah that we learned about
abam being born and taking on the uh um
uh the uh his uh his uh nephew uh coming
with him and so on but uh again this is
the conversation this is really the uh
the main part of the story really begins
now and uh we see that right off the bat
Hashem is testing Abraham so the first
question is that the rambam asks in is
morim inim in chapter 3 section 50 uh
the rambam asks why does AEM have
stories in the Torah why didn't we make
the Torah just simply full of rules
because technically the Torah is
instructions instructions of how to live
instructions of what to do to observe
Shabbat to to to observe the the kroot
laws and family Purity laws and all of
the other different laws that is
actually what the Torah is but our
favorite part is the stories so of
course hasem did not put the stories for
entertainment value and but the question
is why did he put the stories answers
the r the reason why Kosh included
stories in the tat is in order to teach
us about aem's mannerisms how does AEM
operate this world the ways of God the
ways of God how does AEM run this world
and when a person understands the
different ways of God and of course
there's no way to understand all of the
ways of God because if you would
understand him you would be him but
nonetheless a person that understands
the ways of God God the more he
understands the ways of God the clearer
the the decision process is in difficult
times the easier it is to overcome
obstacles and uh certainly the happier
the person is going to be so we have
here a story that begins with a test and
uh we have to ask ourself where is this
test coming from and just like we were
introduced to abah ainu at the end of
parat Noah we're actually going to first
delve into something that we'll answer
and address later on uh to uh as far as
the question about hardship at the mid
in no the
midat no in the section 32 S 3 the mid
says the following it's written in Psalm
11 verse verse 5 hasem examines the
righteous one but he desp iises the
wicked and the lover of robbery this is
a verse in in Psalms that hem examines
the righteous he tests them but he
despises the wicked and the lover of
robbery soan says when examining his
wees by knocking on them the Potter does
not examine the weak
flasks because he would not be able to
strike them even once without breaking
them so which of them does he examine
the high quality flasks for even if he
were to strike them several times they
would not break and so too the Holy One
blessed is he does not test the wicked
rather he tests the righteous as the
verse says Hashem examines the righteous
one but he despises the wicked and the
lover of robbery and as it also says
in and it happened after these things
that God tested Abraham and said to him
I'm sorry
it's uh and um God tested Abraham and
said to him take your son your only son
whom you love and go to the land of
Mariah bring him up
there as a offering this is in uh
Genesis CH
22:1 so here we see a mid telling us
outright first and foremost if you want
to understand just beginning to
understand the the ways of God you have
to understand that Hashem tests the
righteous meaning the more righteous a
person is the more Hashem tests him and
he hates the wicked people and this is
like an analogy that you could compare
it to is that you could compare it to
somebody that has pottery and he wants
to test the part you know so in the old
days they would take it they would you
know bang on it a few times to make sure
that it's solid and then they would sell
it so the same thing that Hashem does he
takes the righteous people the strong
pottery and he knocks on them a few
times to make sure that they're strong
he's not going to test the weaker ones
he's not going to send the wicked ones
the weaker are the wicked he's not going
to test it why because he knows he hits
them one time they're going to break in
shatter into 50 million pieces so
there's no point there's no point of
testing them hence the reason why he
hates them because they defeating the
purpose of life because the purpose of
this life is for a person to build
themselves through the test of Hashem
but still the question is why does AEM
have to test the righteous in the way
that he does what does he get out of it
what does he actually get out of it I
mean technically if he simply wants us
to have good he'll just give us good if
he wants to have us have bad will just
give us bad that's the logic of mankind
you know times uh time and time again
people tell me listen I know that God
can give me such and such God can give
me a you know wherever I live in the
middle of nowhere or even in a bad uh
Community God can give me a job even if
I don't look for one God can give me
this and God can give me that so you
know I that's why I'm not even trying
okay that's fine if you're not trying
because you truly have
100% meaning confidence in hasem that
he's going to provide it to you then no
problem you are a very special person
you can
wait in the middle of some cave and
Hashem will send you a crow that will
deliver the food to you like he did with
elahi but if you are worried the whole
time that you're waiting when's the food
going to come I'm thirsty my stomach
hurts noem what's going on why don't I
have a job why don't I have a wife why
don't I have this when is my conversion
going to go through when is I'm going to
find myid what if you're worried the
whole time then in reality you're
confident is really not confidence your
is non-existent you know and perhaps if
it does exist it's certainly much
smaller than you thought because having
confidence in Hashem means that you have
no worry whatsoever but you're mistaken
hashem's ability with your confidence
where you're thinking that if Hashem is
able to do something therefore he'll do
it because you believe that he can do it
but that's not that's just you wanting
to win the lle what
is is to believe that hem will do it for
you and therefore you don't have to
worry about it but so long as you have
worries you obviously have to have some
type of is some type of effort in order
to entice AEM to do whatever it is that
you want them to do for you and the
reality is when a person mistakes aem's
ability for their own they could sit
there and starve to death thinking oh
well I trust in Hashem and he let me
down and they'll have all types of
excuses of why they're upset at hem for
giving them such a test and not giving
them the answer when all this time the
answer was actually in their hand they
simply needed to do something in order
to get the
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