Even when a person is in difficult situations, G-d forbid, he must remember that only the Creator of the world determines what will happen and can change all the orders of creation, and therefore we must strengthen our faith in the eternal life.
The many trials that a person must undergo are not easy, to say the least. It is not for nothing that King David said: "To say in the morning Your kindness and your faith at night" (Tehillim 92:3). When a person's life goes straight and his "successes" are visible to all, it is not wise to thank the Creator of the worlds at those times. The great difficulty of man's faith, in which he is measured, is precisely at night. In other words, when he is in the dark, the trials overcome him and he finds himself in difficult situations, to say the least. At that time, a person is measured, whether his faith is fundamental even then and does not be shaken even for a moment. The most important thing in all those "difficult" moments in which a person is coping is to lose his faith and hope in the eternal life!!
Rabbi David Falkowitz Shlita relates: I was once invited to speak at the Chai-Life Line organization (this organization strengthens sick or disabled children as well as their families in difficult situations, which they have to deal with on a daily basis, and tries to provide children with a normal and happy childhood as much as possible). They take the children out to camps, trips and strengthen their faith, rehabilitate them, etc. In the middle of my speech, a man from the audience stood up and asked for permission to speak, saying: "When I turned nineteen, I was diagnosed with a serious illness, and the doctors informed me that my condition was very serious, and there was no cure for my illness. It is possible to imagine what happens to a person at those moments when he is informed of this matter." "I left my parents' home in Australia and flew to the United States to spend the summer at Camp Simcha – designed for sick children. In the girls' section of the camp there was a young patient of nineteen, who was informed by the doctors that she would not get to celebrate her twentieth birthday!" We met and we decided to get married together!. Everyone thought we were crazy. For what? What's the point? After all, we are both terminally ill! We did not pay attention to what they said and we got engaged." "I decided to go back to Australia to inform my parents and get ready for the wedding. As soon asI landedin Australia, I heard my name on the public address system, with a request, to come, immediately, to the phone!" There, I was informed that my fiancée had collapsed, and that if I wanted to see her again, I had to board the flight to New York."
I immediately called my rabbi and told him: 'I am sure without a shadow of a doubt, that with God's help, my fiancée and I will be cured of our illness, so I ask you to conduct a chuppah and kiddushin for us at the medical house in New York.' "When the rabbi asked me what state my fiancée was in, I answered: 'Half in a coma.'
The rabbi explained to me that it is impossible to have a chuppah and kiddushin in a situation where the bride is not fully conscious." "Of course, I immediately boarded a flight back to New York. I arrived there early in the morning and hurried to the medical center. I saw my fiancée as pale as lime. The light in her eyes faded. The doctors came up to me and said, 'We're very sorry, but you know, these are her last hours.' "I didn't believe them in any way, and I said out loud: 'We're both sick and we'll both beat the disease and even have children.' I stood by my fiancée's bed and began to pray the morning prayer. I greeted her with the 'morning blessings'. "I have never cried like this in my life. The crying grew louder and louder, and when I said, 'He who opens the blind,' 'He who gives strength to fly,' I cried so much that I couldn't pronounce the words." "When I came to the words in the Amida prayer: 'And our Father blessed us all with the light of Your face...' I cried out in my heart: 'Please! Lord of the worlds, restore the light to my fiancée's eyes.' "I finished praying and was amazed to see that a little of the light had returned to her face and she even smiled."
At this point, the young man stopped his story and asked the audience in the hall: 'You know, what happened in the end?' The entire audience stood fascinated, eagerly waiting to know what happened at the end of the story. The silence could be 'cut with a knife,' and everyone waited anxiously for what he would say. After a silence that seemed eternal, he suddenly cried out aloud: "Raphael! Chanana-L! Run to me!" And from the crowd, two children ran to him, shouting "Dad! Father!" and when they came to him, he lifted them up in both arms and said, "That's what happened in the end!" "
There was not a single dry eye left in the entire hall. Everyone was in tears. Some of them cried loudly. And when he pointed to his wife, who was sitting in the crowd, and said, "Here she is, the one to whom the 'light to the eyes' has returned and has returned all the way," the entire congregation rose to their feet and clapped their hands and wiped away the tears that fell down their cheeks.
We must strengthen our faith in the One who said and the world came into being!
