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Inner Peace Be Upon You
# 0701 Peace and Blessings Every Day
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Why the righteous suffer?
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Rabbi Dov Ber, known as the Magid of Mezritch, explains with the
following parable, why righteous people may at times experience
suffering and the wicked may prosper:
A father who wishes to teach his child to walk, in the beginning
will walk together with the child and hold his hand. Then he
will move away from the child, leaving the child on his own.
The child will then take a step toward his father and the father
will retreat a bit further so that the child will take a few
more steps on his own. The father will repeat this process in
order to get the child to walk greater and greater distances.
To the child it may seem that the father is moving away and
ignoring him, yet the father does this out of love and care for
he knows that the child's growth and development depends on
this.
The same is with the righteous people.
At times it may seem that God is ignoring them, yet, in truth as
they come closer to God, He will move away so that the righteous
person will continuously move closer to Him.
Through this process, the righteous person ascends higher and
higher spiritually.
This is what the Torah means with, "just as a man reproaches his
son so the Lord your God chastises you." Deu. 5:8
A person will seldom reprimand someone else's child. The reason
and purpose a father chastises his child is out of love for the
child for the sake of setting him on the right path and for
his spiritual growth.
So too, the tests which God gives us should be taken as proof
that He cares for us and considers us His children and His
responsibility.
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