Reply To: Chidushim on Daf Yomi

חייב אדם לברך על הרעה כשם שמברך על הטובה a person is obligated to make a blessing on the bad as he is on the good. Things that look bad to us turn out to be good at the end. As we mentioned before, we only see things from hindsight and we don’t see the full picture. The Dubner Magid explains the pasuk in Parashas Yisro where Moshe Rabbenu is telling his father in law that all Hashem did was for the benefit of the Jews. He questions that it says in the beginning that he heard, so what did he tell him? The above statement implies that in the same situation there exists both good and bad and we must make a blessing on both. How is this possible? The means to an end might seem to look bad but the end turns into good. Yisro understood that the splitting of the sea and war against amolek was good for the Jews but he had to be convinced that the servitude in Mitzraim was also beneficial. It enforced our belief to be able to resist antisemitism in the future like iron placed in an oven.