What is hard is not the fact that we face yesurin. Everyone has a pekel to deal with, some more challenging than others. What is more difficult for me is when I see frum individuals who are either an eidel, baalas chessed, or a tremendous baal tzedaka who literally helps hundreds of people with his own two hands as well as his personal bank account, and they have one awful klop after another hit them. It is so hard to understand in what way they are “failing” that they need to work harder on themselves, which is why I don’t like that as an answer. There are so many people who are fine, balabatish Jews who do not do 1/10th the chessed these two do, and who have what appears ro be healthy, happy lives. The simple answer is that we cannot try to understand Hashem’s cheshbonos. Just accept them as they are and try to maintain our deep and abiding Emunah, even when it is more difficult to do so.
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