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[AYidOnTheWayUp]

Hi Rabbi Shapiro,

 

Many times I hear in shiurim or see in sefarim how everything Hashem does is for the best and they back it up with a story to show how a bad thing turned out good. For example someone who was young got into a terrible car accident and at the hospital they found a cancer in the early stages and saved his life. Fine. Nice story. But why did Hashem have to do it that way? Why break all his bones if You love him and want to save his life? I never understood this. Please shed some light on the matter.

 

 

Thank you very much.

 

[Rabbi Shapiro]

The reason Hashem does it that way is in order to teach us that even when things feel painful we should understand He is still running the world and it will turn out good.

 

It is nice that we know it intellectually. But when someone experiences it, he knows it much deeper. This level of knowledge is a great gift. People whose Emunah is on such a type of experiential level rather than abstract intellectual, are Maaminim on a much higher level. 

 

And that is a great gift.

[AYidOnTheWayUp]

I was thinking a different pshat but not sure if its emes. I think in the above story that I brought, the person, truly deserved to die from yeneh machlah, but Hashem had rachmanus and instead made him "only" suffer a car accident to wake him up so he should see the hashgacha pratis of Hashem in his life and do Teshuvah.

[Rabbi Shapiro]

That could be, but does not have to be true in any given case.