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From the rabbi
Desperate for Some Good discourse by Rabbi Dovber, the Second Rebbe of Chabad, good will come of this, even though we can’t see it yet?
This profound truth is spelled out clearly in a Chassidic
Drop the worry and choose the glory. Stop stressing
News? in his classic work Imrei Bina (chapter 9): about what you don’t have and start thinking about what you
“We observe the pattern reflected in the affairs of the do have. G-d is guiding your steps. He controls the entire
By Rabbi Dovid Vigler world, whereby individuals do not achieve growth — in universe. Why define yourself by your deficiencies and not
These are tough times. wealth, leadership, building a family, study, or any other by your destiny?
Rising anti-Semitism and accomplishment — without first experiencing humiliation, The world today can sometimes seem to have completely
Israel’s War on Terror are pain, loss, and the like.... For example, individuals engaged lost its way: If you want to feel lousy, read a newspaper. But
getting us down and we’re in study will not arrive at a complete understanding of the if you want to cheer up, read a history book. Because it’s only
desperate for some good subject without much toil and stress, feeling distant from in hindsight that we’re able to see how the dawn follows the
news. I feel like I have this understanding and tempted to despair from mastering the darkness.
constant impulse to check the subject.... Indeed, the Talmud states (Gittin 43a): One does not Not all storms come to disrupt your life — some come to
news in the hope of finding understand statements of Torah without first being mistaken. clear your path. Everything will be all right does not mean
something uplifting in these “We observe the same in earning a livelihood, whereby everything will stay the same. Perhaps the purpose of the
dark times. we succeed only after putting forth great effort and enduring night is to cloud our vision so we can let go of how we think
As mindful Jews infused much pain, even feeling despair. Only thereafter do we things ought to be and embrace the will of a higher power
with over 3,300 years of Torah wisdom, we have tools find profit and great blessing.... This is the way that G-d’s who knows exactly how they should be.
to employ to lift our spirits. The key lies in an enigmatic blessings flow in the upper worlds and travel down to the We don’t yet know how this war will end. But what we do
encounter in a recent Torah portion, when our patriarch, lowest realm.... There is no light without the darkness that know for sure is that everything will be good in the end — if
Jacob, spends all night wrestling with a mysterious stranger. precedes it.... As it is stated: According to the pain is the it’s not good, then it’s simply not the end!
Clearly, it was an unpleasant experience for Jacob — he reward (Ethics of the Fathers 5:21).” Rabbi Dovid Vigler is the spiritual leader at Chabad of
emerges wounded and limping. Yet curiously, as the dawn Jacob understood that every negative experience is a Palm Beach Gardens and host of the Jewish Schmooze Radio
rises and the stranger prepares to leave, Jacob refuses to let precursor to something positive. His insistence that the Show. Email him at rabbi@jewishgardens.com.
him go until he blesses him (Genesis 32: 27). Any normal stranger bless him represents his refusal to accept his struggle
person whose assailant asks to leave would surely send him at face value, opting instead to discover its positive outcome.
off as quickly as possible. Why would Jacob insist that his Jacob’s amazing attitude to struggle manifests itself
attacker bless him? Blessings are sought from holy men, not also in the way he reacts to his wicked employer, Lavan.
hooligans! Though he deceived Jacob endlessly over twenty years of his
It is here that we are introduced to a magnificent truth — employment, Jacob used his time to compose fifteen of the
a veritable secret of the Universe. In Judaism, night always most famous songs of all time — the Songs of Ascent that
comes before day. Shabbos and Jewish holidays always begin have been immortalized as part of the Biblical Book of Psalms
at sunset, reflecting the sequence of creation: “And there was (Psalms 120-134). Jacob’s extraordinary ability to sing his
evening followed by morning, completing one day.” The way through his suffering is rooted in this consciousness of
reason is that every light must be preceded by darkness. this truth — that after every darkness comes the dawn. He
Like a seed must decompose before sprouting, our intuitively understood that as deep as his suffering is now, so
successes are born of failure. Instead of giving up hope when will be the subsequent rise of his joy to follow soon. Instead
we first encounter defeat, the awareness that success isn’t of focusing on his current deficiency, he set his eye on his
instantaneous, but rather born through night, fills us with the ultimate destiny. 2024
courage of conviction and the purpose of our passion. Just Every time we experience a setback, we have a profound
like night is always followed by day, our lonely struggles are choice to make: Will we stress over the immediate problem
strategically placed in our lives as a precursor to the dawn or will we choose to see the bigger picture and find comfort
that inevitably follows. in the loving embrace of G-d, knowing with certainty that
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