Your Suffering Enables You to Understand Others and Guide Them

The same with Yehoshua. The Chazal say that he wasn’t good in learning and he was called a Tipesh! (Medrash). He was called: אִישׁ אֲשֶּׁר רוּחַ בּוֹ פנחס כז יח person who had spirit, since he understood: רוּחוֹ שֶּׁל כָל אֶּחָד וְאֶּחָד each person’s spirit, i.e., he was involved in understanding each individual. When you’ve suffered yourself, then you understand others. The Chofetz Chaim says that every Yid should feel responsibility to be Mashpia (have positive influence) on others, and those who had difficulties in their own personal lives are the best leaders.