Your Ongoing Pains Today Are the Seeds for A Beautiful Future
Total destruction and waste. No building. No trees, and surely no humans. However, a שָׁדֶה plowing field is a place where we plant seeds for a beautiful future! You may feel like today you are in the mud, with your ongoing pains, Rachmana Litzlan. But keep working on yourself with Bitachon, and plant the seeds which we may not see now, but are a guarantee for great Simchos and Yeshuos coming in Olam HaZeh and/or Olam HaBah. The next time you get Bizyonos (which is a “Churban” to your Kavod HaAdam) think of the hugging K’ruvim.
Novardok
Novardokers specialized in ridiculing the Yetzer Hara with plenty of laughter. When you play something down, it loses its Koach. When you make a joke about a scary person, your fears can diminish. That’s why the Yidden called those giants רְ פָאִים Refa’im (weaklings) while the Mo'avim called them: אֵמִים ב יא Aim’im (fearsome).
The same person or situation can be looked at in two ways. This is also true about your view of yourself. The way you see yourself, affects your performance.
In Novardok & Slabodka they were very good at seeing the Hevel & foolishness of Chet, to which they dedicated loads of: הִּ תְ בוֹנְ נוּ ת thought. And with lots of laughing (Novardok) at the folly of bad Middos; they could lose all Cheshek for sins, since they saw through the Dimyon of Ta'avos Olam HaZeh.
R' Gershon Liebman Zatzal was always practicing no fear of people. In his formative years in the Yeshiva in Bialystok he ran away from Kavod, and from receiving recognition from people. He was so seasoned in “fearlessness” during peacetime, that by the time WWII broke out, the Nazis didn’t scare him. He was able to accomplish amazing feats, like building a Yeshiva in the ghetto.
They say that the Alter of Slabodka always looked at a person with a brand new Ayin Tova, as if he could change any minute from his evil past. A person should always be oozing with love & Ayin Tova on all of mankind, just like Hashem tolerates the worst Reshaim and always gives a chance for Teshuva.
