Chazal (Yoma 69b) says, "Hashem's seal is emes, truth." When you look at a seal, the letters appear backwards. But when the seal is pressed on paper, everything is in the correct order. This is how it often is with "truth." At first glimpse, it might not seem true and fair. But everything is exactly how it is supposed to be. There will come a day when this will be revealed.
The Ramban had a student – a great scholar with a lot of potential – who was niftar young. When the chevra kadisha was preparing the niftar for burial, the Ramban came into the room, wrote up a letter, signed it, and put it in the niftar's hand. He said to the niftar, "In heaven, there is a chamber called Kisa'os l'Mishpat (Chairs of Judgment). Hashem resides there. Go to that chamber and ask why you had to die young, and then come back and tell me the answer you receive."
Indeed, the niftar came to the Ramban. He appeared as if he was alive, and he spoke to the Ramban through a window. He said, "With your letter in my hand, signed with your holy signature, all doors were opened for me. I rose very high up in heaven, and I smelled the wonderful scent of Gan Eden. I arrived at Kisa'os l'Mishpat, but I couldn't ask any questions, because here in heaven, everything is clear and obvious, and I have no questions at all."
Consider the following story, told by the renowned magid, Reb Yankele Galinsky zt'l:
When he was a child, women would come to their home on Thursday night, and his mother would read the newspaper to them, because these women didn't know how to read on their own.
Once, the women gathered in their home, as Rebbetzin Galinsky was still in the kitchen, finishing off some cooking for Shabbos. As the women waited for Rebbetzin Galinsky, the women glimpsed through the pictures in the newspaper. One of the women shouted, "Rebbetzin! How can you cook now? A large ship sunk in the sea! How can you ignore this tragedy and cook?"
Rebbetzin Galinsky rushed into the dining room. She looked at the picture and laughed heartedly. She explained, "You don't know how to read Russian, so you didn't realize that you held the paper upside down. The ship didn't sink. This is an article about a new ship that is being built..."
So, when one can't read, he thinks the ship turned over, and when one can read, he sees that a new ship is being built. The same is in life. When we don't know how to read and to interpret what is happening to us, we think things are bad, when actually, everything is for the good.
So, we must know that we aren't able to understand everything. There are times that things appear wrong, unfair, stressful, humiliating, etc. and there are times that are simply frightening. But we are seeing only part of the picture. If we had a better view, we would see how everything is for our benefit, and often, and hopefully, we will see that it is so.
