Baruch Sheamar Settling Accounts

Sometimes we see good people suffering while wicked people prosper. The Torah tells us that a tzaddik sometimes receives his punishment in this world so that he arrives in Olam Haba totally cleansed; a rasha sometimes receives a reward in this world for whatever small mitzvos he has done.

In Baruch She’amar, we praise Hashem for this middah with the words “Baruch chai la’ad v’kayam lanetzach.” Hashem is eternal, and has plenty of time to pay all His debts to tzaddikim and reshaim alike.

Adapted from Emunah in the Classroom