Geshmake Question & Readers Answers
Last week’s Geshmake Question:
Don’t be silly.
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This week’s geshmaka question:
At the end of World War II, the Nazis saw the Americans coming and got very nervous.
One day, they told everyone to line up for bread. Yitzchak went to get his slice of bread.
When he came back to his bed, some non-Jewish prisoners beat him up and took away all his bread. He went to sleep, starving and all beat up in pain.
He lay there thinking, “Why did Hashem keep me alive so long – only to be beaten? To die starving? Why so much pain?”
His stomach twisted with hunger, and his body was in so much pain that he felt this might be his last night alive, but he finally fell asleep.
The next morning, he woke up and saw everyone around him dead.
The Nazis had put poison in the bread and ran away. They wanted to kill everyone to hide what they did. Hashem had saved his life.
What’s the lesson? We don’t always see or understand what Hashem does – but we must learn from these stories that we don’t always know see the whole picture, and must learn to trust our father. He has only our best in mind.
This connects to this week’s Parshah:
Question: What was the hardest part of Avraham Avinu’s test to kill Yitzchak?
Answer:
The hardest part was that 1) it didn’t make logical sense to the human mind. To slaughter your own child. 2) It was against human emotions. To be the one that kills his own child after waiting for so many years.
But Avraham Avinu didn’t follow logic; he followed Hashem.
Whatever Hashem says is right, not the other way around.
He gave his mind, heart, and soul completely to Hashem. Avraham teaches us simple emunah.
In life, realize that every person will have painful challenges; but what makes them even more painful is when they seem to be for no reason.
If remembering that Hashem does love you and has good reasons for whatever challenges you go through – even if we don’t understand – you will be able to be like Avraham Avinu – to give your mind, heart, and soul to Hashem.
By doing this, you are becoming great, holy, and are following in Avraham Avinu’s path!
