HaShem Has The Best Solutions

0:08But sometimes we see bad things happen in our life, and we immediately arrive at a conclusion that something went wrong, maybe Hashem made a mistake, maybe something is being missed up there, and so on and so forth. We don't give Hashem the benefit of the doubt. What is this like? There was a certain person from Yerushalayim, that had emunah, learned, Baruch Hashem, was a talmid chacham, but one day he got sick. And there's a very famous rabbi in Eretz Yisrael who's an expert not only in diagnosing the problem but in telling you exactly who is the best doctor in the world to help you. He's an expert. There was actually a TV interview done about him a few years ago. Very humble tzaddik. And for years, he has been known in the community, but now he's already known worldwide. He's helped many, many people. All of the top doctors, the biggest experts in the world, know who he is, and he knows who they are. So one time, this guy gets sick, and the doctors tell him, listen, you have a really rare situation. We can't help you. We don't have the expertise.

1:27We have expertise, but not expertise to do what you need. So he goes to this Rabbi. He sits with him and says, "I know exactly what you need. You need to go to this doctor. He's in London and is the best doctor in the world for this specific thing." So the guy makes a call, arranges everything, and goes to London. They meet with the expert. The expert says, "Yes, it's a very serious problem, but I can do this. It's going to be $100,000." The guy is not exactly rich. So he and his family have to start selling stuff, gathering money together, to get this poor guy his life back. They go, they raise money, they sell stuff. Long story short, they get the money. On the day of the surgery, the family is scared, but at the same time, they're excited. Their Abba is finally going to get the cure he needs. He's finally going to have the surgery, this very difficult surgery, but he's going to live. But he's going to live. So they're all waiting outside patiently. And they see, I don't know if any of you have ever been to a hospital, the doors of the surgery room, those little windows. And sometimes you get to see a little bit of what's going on inside.

2:43So he sees that the doctor, the expert, the one for whom he wrote a check for $100,000 in advance, is wearing a t-shirt and shorts, as if he's going on vacation. The doctor doesn't even have the mask on his face, like he's on vacation. He's not even ready for surgery, not at all. Then some other young, junior doctor comes in and says, "Here you go." It's as if he just shows up, and this is the patient. And he leaves. The family wants to break down the door. This person is a thief. This person is a liar. They paid him $100,000, and he's not even doing the surgery. At least you have to do this. An intern is doing the surgery. Charge $10,000, not $100,000. He's not the expert; you are. They want to break in, but they're scared. Maybe they're going to kick them out. What are they going to do? They stay quietly, but they know they have to do something. Long story short, the surgery is performed successfully. After the father recovers, they tell him, "Listen, Abba, we have to do something. They took advantage of us. They took the $100,000, but it wasn't the real doctor. It was just some intern, some 20-year-old who did the whole thing. We shouldn't pay. We should take action." The father says, "No, no, no. It's okay. The surgery worked. Don't say a single word."

4:10They stole a hundred thousand. He didn't steal anything. Hashem runs the world. Don't say a word. So, Baruch Hashem, they had kavod for their Abba, and they didn't say anything. Ten years pass. As Hashem would have it, the disease returned. He goes back to the same rabbi expert in Eretz Yisrael, and the rabbi says, yes, you have to go back to the same doctor. He's still the only expert in this field. He goes back to London. He goes to the office. He says, oh no, sorry. He retired. He's old already. He retired. Do you have anybody? He goes, oh yeah, yeah, we have Dr. So-and-so. Oh, he's good? Yeah, he's the best. So he calls the rabbi from Israel. He goes, do you know this other doctor? He says, oh yeah, he's amazing. That guy, if it's not the one I told you, this guy's the best. Go to him.

5:11So, okay, we're going to meet him. They wait in the office and all of a sudden this young guy walks in but looks familiar. He starts talking to them. He goes, "You know, your family looks familiar. What's your name?" And they tell him the name. He takes their file out. He goes, "You were here before? Okay," he looks at the file and goes, "Oh, I know you. You were my first surgery 10 years ago. You guys were my first surgery 10 years ago." came back. Don't worry; when you made a one hundred thousand dollar payment, that was a lifetime payment. I'll do the surgery for free. The surgery, I'll do for free. You have nothing to worry about. You thought that the doctor being young was a bad thing. Why? Ah, we paid one hundred thousand dollars for the veteran, you thought. No, no, no, my friend. There is a gezera in Shamayim, there is a decree in Shamayim for you to have this disease twice. Now, I can make you suffer with the money and the health twice, or money once and health twice. Which one do you want? You don't want either one. But this is what's written in Shamayim. Meaning, if we give Hashem the benefit of the doubt, the kaf zechut, we're always going to see that, in the end, HaKadosh Baruch Hu's solution is much better than ours.

6:35There's an Avrech that we know in Yerushalayim, a bachur, mamash, an ish tzaddik. His father just passed away a week ago. And I heard something from him that, honestly, I don't know anybody else would say such a thing, that has such a view of the world. But this is just to show you why HaKadosh Baruch Hu continues to give Am Yisrael more and more time because he has anashim tzaddikim like this. He has people like this. Now his father died a week ago. Understanding this, we see how Hashem orchestrates events in ways that are often beyond our comprehension. The Avrech, even in his time of mourning, found a perspective that highlights the chesed, kindness, of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. This is a lesson for all of us in emunah, faith, to recognize that even when we face adversity, there is a divine plan at work. This emunah is what sustains Am Yisrael throughout the generations. Now, before he died, he was sick for a few months. During the time that he was sick in the beginning, something went wrong with one of the treatments. It was during this time that they discovered he actually had cancer in his liver. Two weeks after they found out he had cancer in his liver, he passed away. So the Avrech says, "Look how kind HaKadosh Baruch Hu is." Look how kind HaKadosh Baruch Hu is. Technically, there was already a decree in Shamayim for my father to go. But if He would have shocked us, with one day he's okay, the next day he's diagnosed with cancer in the liver, and two weeks later he's gone, we would all be in shock.

7:49My father got sick, and we already got used to going to the hospital and the doctors, back and forth. Already for a few months, we're back and forth to the doctors. We already got used to him being sick. We already got used to this new environment, this new reality where we have to think, maybe he's not going to be here, maybe this, maybe not. HaKadosh Baruch Hu at least gave us this difficult decree but with mercy, too. He gave us more time to say goodbye. Many people get the opportunity to say goodbye, as HaKadosh Baruch Hu gives us more time to adjust emotionally to the situation. How many people get that time? Quite a few do, but not everybody perceives it that way. The thing is, though, that again, if we give HaKadosh Baruch Hu the benefit of the doubt, we'll see that His solutions, even though we don't necessarily understand them, are always better than ours.