Reply To: Sharing my Torah thoughts

In Tehillim (mizmor shir l’yom haShabbos), Dovid haMelech touches briefly on the age-old question of why good things happen to bad people. He says “A boor doesn’t know, nor does a fool understand this. When the wicked spring up as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do blossom;​ it is that they may be destroyed​ for ever… a tzaddik will flourish like a palm tree, and grow strong like the cedar trees of Lebanon.”

I think the descriptions of the success reinforce the point. The rasha is described as springing up like grass, and blossoming. While grass looks nice, and spreads widely, it is also very easy to uproot and destroy. The same thing with blossoms – they are easily torn off from the main plant.
A tzaddik, however, is described as a tree (2 types). Trees take much longer to grow, but they have deep roots, and are established. It’s difficult to destroy a tree.

So the success of the Rasha is only temporary, without any real foundations. But the tzaddik, while it may take longer to realize it, is really only getting the foundations (roots) established, and the success will last eternally!