I’m very late here but I saw a post early this morning and I’m just able to come on the CR now, I didnt read anything since the second or third post in this discussion so I hope I’m not repeating anything
moish: kapusta, but at the end of the day, who is the one who had it easier? the guy with less pulling him away, right? so there’s not much that will prevent him from reaching what he’s supposed to. the other guy may be a lot greater if and only if he ever actually gets anywhere in life. it’s a lot harder for him to even make a tiny move.
a few points:
1. no one ever said life is gonna be easy, and if it is, is that what youre looking to do? make everything easy? (I could quote someone, anything worth doing is worth doing well) but you can say that for anything.
2. if there are two guys, one has more temptation than the other, if the guy with more temptation does what the other ones job is, and gets the easy job, then what did he accomplish for himself? and who is supposed to do his job?
3. compare this to a man and a woman. both have a yetzer hara in different areas. for the man its easy to say that dressing modestly is easy. for the woman its easy to say that not learning is easy. no one is talking about the commandments given to them so what does it hurt? does that mean G-d shouldve created only men or only women?
4. circumstances in life are not always very peachy, the point is to rise up and do something about it, one example is (or this is the story I know anyway) Zichron Shlomo Refuah Fund was started, when “Shlomo” died of cancer. I think I can safely guarantee you that the family was devastated with this, but look how many people are constantly being helped from this? its not easy, but g-d chose them for special work.
5. a little branch of my last point, G-d does not choose anyone for anything, only people who can handle nisyonos. Its done with a tremendous amount of love and just keep that in mind.
🙂
sorry for rambling 🙂