The same applies to a person who still finds himself in the darkness of the nisayon—and the darkness may last for a long time. The fool cannot be allowed to see this, because he draws all kinds of erroneous conclusions from it. When you try to reason with him and explain things to him about a bigger picture, he cuts you off and says, “Don’t explain anything; I understand what’s happening.” This is how a fool speaks!
When a person experiences challenges, he must know that foundations are being built here! This experience will bring you to where you need to go. It may be very difficult, it’s true. But one of the greatest principles of bitachon is knowing that every tzarah is designed to bring a Yid closer to the Ribbono shel Olam.
The closer a Yid grows to the Ribbono shel Olam, the more he will access all sorts of good, in This World and in the Next World. This is the purpose and the essence of the nisyonos that the Ribbono shel Olam gives a person. It brings him to humility, which brings closeness to Hashem, which in turn brings a person to deveikus in Hashem—and this brings a person all kinds of good now and in the future.
Patience
Thus, in every nisayon a person endures, he is still “in the middle of the story.” And if the story takes fifteen years, so what? You simply need to use your wisdom to understand what’s happening. Yes, you will need patience. But there’s no question here!
A person didn’t come onto This World for fun—for things to go the way he wants them to. A person came down to This World for a certain number of years, for one purpose and one purpose alone: To attain קרבת אלוקים! Sometimes it happens via one avenue, and other times through other ways. He is always in the middle of a holy and Heavenly story.
