"A Gift of Agony": Why Does a 9-month Pregnancy Need to Be Born?

A gift that comes by effort has successes, but a gift that comes along the way is temporary and has no eternity. According to the Talmud, anguish is a positive aspect and the more trouble you have for giving birth, the more the father, the mother and the children bond. Blessing of Blessings, page e

"A Gift of Agony": Why Does a 9-month Pregnancy Need to Be Born?

Pregnancy lasted nine months at the end of which a child was born. Why? Why should you try so hard? Why, for example, do not a special development under which an app is clicked A and Wife is born and if B is clicked you will be born a daughter? Why should nine months be tormented? There are gifts that are left forever and there are gifts that are immediately erased. Every gift that comes by effort, has its successes. Any gift that comes along the way has no eternity and is temporary. The Creator knew that the more trouble a child would have for the world, the more the father, mother and children would be connected.

The Gemara in Tractate Berachot Page 5 reads as follows: "Tanya Rabbi Shimon Ben Yochai says: Three good gifts the Holy One is blessed to Israel, and all were given only by Yasurin; these are: Torah, and the Land of Israel, and the Hereafter."

Rabbi Haim David Kowalski, the digital Gemara presenter, explained that the first gift - the Torah - is the existence of the world, the existence of the inner capacity of the soul and the soul and to study the Torah, it is not enough to see or read stories but needs deepening and effort. The Talmud is written in Aramaic and not in Hebrew because the more one endeavors, the more one has the torment, the more one connects, the more loving and the happier. That's why it's called "the Torah business," people invest in business, fly every week to Europe, drive every day to the south and north in traffic jams and yet they don't despair or raise their hands because they want to succeed. The same is true of the Torah, the more one deals with it, endeavors, the greater the success and connection.

The Land of Israel is bought in agony. Dead Sea, North Shore. (Photo: Gary Reznikowski, Gold Rose - Zahav.ru)

Dead Sea, North Shore (Photo: Gary Reznikowski, Zahav.ru)

The second gift that God gave her in agony, the rabbi explained, is Israel. How much torment does one go through in order to keep the land of Israel? Why? If Gd has given us the promised land, give it abundantly. The conclusion here, too, is the same conclusion: something that is given in agony, the more a person connects to it, the more he is attached to it and the more he cares for it.

The third gift is the afterlife. "It's not a world of the body," said the rabbi. It is a world of joy of mind. A man eats a meal, tastes good and he wants to eat more, but his body is limited and he can no longer eat. When one ends his role in this world, he comes to the next world, where there is no espresso or upside down coffee, there is a Torah. You see the conditions and the Amorites there and all those thousands of generations of the Jewish people who studied Torah. Torah is eternal and anyone who studies Torah here comes to the next world and continues to do so and his enjoyment is endless.

The meeting with the commander of the paratroopers who ended up crying: Tractate Greetings, page E

Digital Gemara. Study of the Talmud at points related to daily life (Photo: ShutterStock)

Gemara Book (Photo: ShutterStock)

The Digital Gemara is the first venture of its kind led by Rabbi Kowalski, founder and head of the Daily Page Lights organization, in which anyone can be part of the hundreds of thousands of people around the country and the world who regularly study one Gemara page daily by watching a short daily video clip. The Babylonian Talmud in its most popular version has 2,711 pages. In the daily videos you will meet every day at significant and fascinating points related to daily life based on the daily study of the Gemara.

Rabbi Meir Shapiro conceived the idea for regular daily study somewhere in 1923. Rabbi Shapiro had one major goal: to encourage all levels of the public to set times for Torah study and to create a common denominator among all learners, regardless of class, profession, or country of origin. Today, 96 years after the initiative was launched, hundreds of thousands of Jews across the country and the world are studying together in a regular learning cycle that lasts seven and a half years.