Why You Get Troubles When Trying To Do Good?

1:29HaKadosh Baruch Hu wanted to show us, wanted to teach us, Rivka was a tzaddekes, she didn't offer to bring the water because it was easy. She didn't want to do the mitzvah, she wasn't so excited about the mitzvah because it was an easy mitzvah. She wanted to do it because of the mitzvah mamash, and therefore HaKadosh Baruch Hu wanted to give her full reward for it. And sometimes you'll see that you are doing something good, and suddenly things don't go well, where it becomes much harder. The better you do, the more difficult the mitzvah becomes. So you think, well, maybe Hashem doesn't want me to do this. You suddenly decided one day you want to do teshuvah. Before the day you decided to do teshuvah, no one cared about your religious preference, no one cared about your free time, no one cared about anything. So you think, well, maybe Hashem doesn't want me to do this. You suddenly decided one day you want to do teshuvah. Before the day you decided to do teshuvah, no one cared about your religious preference, no one cared about your free time, no one cared about anything.

2:30Suddenly you want to do teshuva, and all of a sudden, all your friends, family, peers, and co-workers—the whole world—cares. "Hey, what happened? What, somebody died? Why are you religious? What's wrong with you? What's going on? Why don't you like us anymore? Why do you think you're better than us?" Suddenly, everybody cares about your religious preference. Before that, no one even asked if you're religious; no one even asked if you're even a human. Nothing. No one cared. Suddenly you decided to do teshuva, and all of a sudden, the whole world cares. One day he decided to abandon Christianity, abandon atheism, abandon all types of heresy. He decided he wanted to convert to Judaism. In the beginning, everything was going well. You were excited. Oh, I got this rabbi on YouTube. He excites me. He gives me... All of a sudden, everything is going great. In the beginning, everything is going great. She's like, "Oh yeah, I'm going to be a Jew in like a week. You know, I'm going to just stream every shiur, 3,000 shiurim, we're going to watch them all in one day." And you watch, one, two, three, you're swallowing the shiurim. And you order 900 books as if you're going to read them in a week too while you're watching the shiurim. Your whole life becomes full of books, shiurim, everything. You're so excited, everything is great. A few months pass by.

3:46And things become a little more serious. You're actually going into a formal process. You say, Rabbi, you're in connection. Everything is going well. All of a sudden, you get a phone call - bad news. You've lost your job. Bad news. Somebody you care about is not happy with you. Bad news. Whatever else. Oh, maybe Hashem doesn't see this bad news. See, I never had these bad news before. I was alive in the world for 30 years. Never had bad news. My wife always liked me. My husband always liked me. My kids always liked me. My job always liked me. Everything was good. Suddenly, I want to become a Jew. All I have is bad news. I wake up in the morning and say Modeh Ani for bad news. Say, Israel, about bad news—everything's bad, all day bad news: the job, the money, this, that, that. Maybe Hashem doesn't want me to convert. Wrong! HaKadosh Baruch Hu wants you to convert. HaKadosh Baruch Hu wants you to do teshuva, but he also wants you to do a few other things along with it. Number one, He wants to test you. It says Hashem tests those that He loves.

5:02Wants to know, are you converting or doing it because it's easy, because it's the trendy thing to do, or because you love Me? Do you love Hashem? Oh, I love Hashem. Well, if you love Hashem, love means it's unconditional. Love means that even if there's bad news, you're still going to do it. In fact, if there's only bad news, you're still going to do it. Just like Job. Job said, "Even if He were to kill me, I would still serve Him." What does it mean, "Even if He were to kill me to serve Him"? Meaning, even if I know that this is a mitzvah from the Torah, and by fulfilling this mitzvah, I'm going to die, I'm still going to do it. Why? Because I know it brings nachat to Hashem. is what He wants in the world. This is the will of Hashem. Doing this, yeah, but you're going to die in the process. Focus: all done, at least I fulfilled the purpose—at least there was a purpose for my existence in the world. That's what Iyov (Job) did. That's why there's a sefer in the Torah called Sefer Iyov (Book of Job). So a person that loves Hashem is going to endure through thick and thin. So first, HaKadosh Baruch Hu wants to know: do you love Me? Do you love HaKadosh Baruch Hu?

6:17Second, HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, "Now that I know that you love me, I want to give you the full reward. How? I'll make it a little more difficult. When it was easy, you were going to get a reward, but it was just an okay reward. It was a good reward, but I want to give you much more. I want to give you a billion times more. Now when you're going through the fire, when you're going through the difficulty, you might think, 'Nah, let me just get it easy. I'll just take the easy choice.'" make it a little more difficult. Why? When it was easy, you were going to get a reward, but it was like, okay, it was a good reward. But I want to give you a lot more. I want to give you a billion times more now that you're going through the fire, when you're going through the difficulty. And you're like, "Nah, let me just get it easy. I'll just get the easy one. Let me just take the easy choice." When are you going to say, thank you HaKadosh Baruch Hu for loving me so much that you made my life a living hell for a little while? When are you going to say it? When you see the reward that you get for it. When you see the reward that you get for overcoming all of the obstacles, all of the difficulties, you see the reward that you get versus what you would have gotten had it been easy. There's such a huge difference between the two. He said, "Thank you for loving me so much that you made my life a living hell for a little while so you can give me more reward." So this, Rabotai, is the reason why HaKadosh Baruch Hu made it more difficult for Rivka to get the water. He wanted to give her the full reward.

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