OUR PROBLEM IS THAT IT ISN’T ALWAYS
SO OBVIOUS TO US THAT WHAT HASHEM DOES
IS ACTUALLY FOR THE BEST! WE CAN’T ALWAYS
SEE THE MANY DANGERS THAT HASHEM SAVES
US FROM OR APPRECIATE HOW MUCH WORSE
THINGS COULD HAVE TURNED OUT THAN THE
WAY THEY ACTUALLY DID.
captive. When he later learned of this,
Rabbi Akiva said: “Didn’t I tell you that
everything that G-d does, all of it is for
the best?” Rashi explains7 how Rabbi Akiva saw these events: if the candle had
been lit, the robbers would have seen
him; if the donkey had brayed or the
rooster crowed the robbers would have
heard the animals and would have come
and taken Rabbi Akiva captive too!
Our problem is that it isn’t always so
obvious to us that what Hashem does is
actually for the best! We can’t always see
the many dangers that Hashem saves us
from or appreciate how much ݽ