Healed Overnight

Let me tell you a story that happened a little more than a month ago to one of my students: 

I know this student personally. He is a young avreich (student) who learns in my Yeshiva. He does one hour of personal prayer a day, he learns Torah, he distributes emuna books in the evenings, goes to Uman Rosh Hashanah – Baruch Hashem. All of a sudden, he started having awful pain in one limb of his body. He did hitbodedut, he did teshuva, he did a pidyon nefesh (redemption of the soul) with me – he even went to Uman and asked Rebbe Nachman to help him. He did everything! But nothing worked! 

That is when he went to do an hour of just thanking Hashem. He said to Hashem, “I was healthy, and I didn’t thank you.” He admitted that he had been sad over his suffering and pain and lacked emuna. But now, he strengthened himself to be happy with the suffering. He said thank you for the suffering, thank you for the pain, thank you that nothing had worked up until then. He connected himself to emuna – and Hashem healed him overnight. 

Remember that you must first thank Hashem for the suffering with real happiness, and only then can you request that the suffering be taken away. 

If you can’t thank Hashem with true happiness from the bottom of your heart, then ask Hashem to help you. Tell Hashem: “Give me the emuna to say thank you and believe that this is good, truly good. That’s the only thing I want right now!” 

It’s not possible that Hashem is doing something bad to you. If you think it’s bad, you’re living a lie. Hashem is only good! Hashem and only Hashem does everything, ein od milvado – and everything He does is good. Tell Hashem, “I want to live the truth! I want to live emuna! I want to really believe that everything You do is not just good – it’s very good!” 

For more comments by Rabbi Arush tied to this story, please see the article based on the lecture during which Rabbi Arush told this story: Don’t Skip Steps. 

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