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This coming Shabbat we will read in the synagogue Parshat Beshelach in which the Torah tells us about the exodus from Egypt and the walk of the Israelites in the wilderness.
In Rabbi Yosiah Pinto's lesson, he explained a wonderful principle that is relevant to anyone who experiences difficulties in his life.
Here are Rabbi Pinto's full words:
If we look at this week's parshah, we see "And they came to Martha, and they could not drink water from Mary, because they were dead." The children of Israel came to Martha, and there they were. They had bitter water, the children of Israel were in sorrow and crying death of the water is the hardest, dying of hunger is less difficult than dying of thirst. Moses cries out to G-d, G-d showed him a bitter tree and told him to throw it into the water and the bitter water will be sweet. Moshe Our rabbi took the bitter tree and threw it into the water and then "and the water became sweet" the water became sweet.
We thought of making the problem more difficult, in order to sweeten bitter water you have to throw in something sweet honey, sugar, and here G-d says to throw something bitter to sweeten the bitter, if you want to sweeten the bitter you put something sweet not something bitter, so how does G-d tell Moses to take a tree that is Mr. sweeten the water?
But it can be said this way, Moses teaches us by what G-d said to him, on bitter water you will put another bitter tree and after you put it then the water will be sweet. You don't sweeten the difficulty with sweet and with empty things to make the mind forget, you sweeten the difficulty with more Work when you continue to face the sorrow and the problem and when you continue to face it, in the end it becomes sweet for many years. If you put honey inside, the bitter will be sweet until the honey expires and the bitterness returns. But if you face the bitter and continue to face the bitter, then when the water becomes sweet, it will be sweet for a long time and all their essence becomes a good essence.
And so you can say a great foundation in a person's life, sometimes a person studies Torah and it's hard, he has difficulties in the beit midrash that pressure him, difficulties in making a living or he doesn't understand the material, the person says I'll take something sweet, I'll take time off or I'll go for a walk that's how I'll solve the problem .
It's the same at work, a person sometimes has a hard time and has problems with the landlord or problems with the employees, it's not good for him it's bitter, the person says I'll put something sweet on the bitter, I'll take time off I'll go enjoy myself, I'll run away from the problem and the problem will be solved.
But the person should know that something sweet does not sweeten the bitter, rather the person should throw more bitter on it, stand up to it and face it and in the end the bitter will be sweet.
The bitter is sweetened with more bitter, whoever thinks to sweeten bitter with sweet is wrong, if you try to run away from the problem it will be more difficult, be strong and stand with all your might and in the end the bitter will be sweet.
David Berger, submitted on behalf of Shuba Israel
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