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Difficulty in Serving Hashem? Everything Going Wrong? Feeling Heavy & Lazy About It All? Then You're On The Right Track! Here's Why...

14/5/2021

 
Starting a while back, many of us discovered that previously meaningful geshmak avodat Hashem suddenly became heavy or unpleasant.

It even started feeling impossible.

It became like wading through mire to fulfill actions that we formerly did with happy anticipation.

Have you been feeling that way too?

Well, then—take heart!

There's a positive reason why you feel this way—it actually says something very good about you!

Here's page 20 from the Bitachon Weekly for Bamidbar/Shavuot:
When You Have Difficulty Serving Hashem And Everything Goes Wrong,
​This Is A Good Sign


The Gr”a says when did Naomi know that Rus [Ruth] was for real?

When she started acting lazy and her body became heavy!!

Exactly when a person is having difficulty serving Hashem and everything goes wrong, this is a good sign.

It proves the person is on the right track, since the Yetzer Hara gets activated when he sees good people trying to do what’s right in the eyes of Hashem. 

Reb Dovid Bleicher Zatzal says, Rus was a poor and broken person, with no yichus [proper lineage], and davka precisely from her difficult situation, came all her hatzlacha [success]!

He adds: It’s always like this!

Original source of the Gra:
ביאור הגר"א על מגילת רות עה"פ וַּתֵּ רֶ א כִ י מִ תְּ אַּ מֶ צֶת הִ יא לָלֶכֶת אִ תָ ּה וַּתֶ חְּ דַּ ל לְּ דַּ בֵּר אֵּ לֶיהָ ]א יח[ הענין היצה"ר דומה לזבוב ויושב בין ב' מפתחי הלב , ור"ל כי היצ"ט אינו יועץ אלא למצוה, אבל היצה"ר משיאו לעבירות , ואם יראה שאינו ל לו, מפתהו לעשות מצוה מעוטף כמה עבירות ]ועל דרך זה יצרו של
אדם מתגבר עליו בכל יום ומתחדש כו' מתגבר שיעשה עבירות , ומתחדש היינו אם רואה שלא יפתה אותו לעבירה , מחדש על לפתיהו במצוה , ובזה מעטיף
העבירה כדרך היצר[ והרוצה לבחון עת בא לידו המצוה אם הוא מיצה"ר או לא , יבחין בעת עשיית המצוה, אם אבריו נעים ונדים בעת ההיא ובזריזות לעשות
המצוה מסתמא היא מעצת יצה"ר, כי איך יוכל להיות שאיברי הגוף הכבדים אשר מעפר יסודם וטבעם לילך אחר תאותם הגופני היורד למטה מטה כטבע
העפר, יתלבשו רצון לעשות ]מצוה[? אין זה כי אם עצת יצה"ר בכדי שילכד אח"כ ברשתו. ואם בתשוקת נפש ו הפנימיות להתקרב אל עושהו במעשי המצות,
איברי הגוף כבדים ועצלים, אז נראה שמדרך הטבע הוא, ולכן נלבש היצה"ר באיברי הגוף ורוצה לעכבם מעשות המצוה . ועל זה ג"כ בריש לקיש מתחלה
כשנתכוון לעבירה רצו איברי הגוף עד שאמרו במסכת ב"מ ושוור לירדנא בכחו, וכיון שקיבל עליו עול תורה בעי למיהדר ולא יכול , שכיון שמצד היצ"ט קיבל
עליו עול תורה , לכן התחיל היצר לעכב ונעשו איברי הגוף כבדים. ואף כאן אינה יכולה לילך אחריה אף שהיא היתה בחורה ממנה בלתי אמיץ בגוף ויגיעה
רבה, אז וַּתֶ חְּ דַּ ל כו' למנוע אותה מהמצוות , כי הכוונה מצד הטוב הוא
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Please note: Bitachon Weekly did not ask or hint in any way for me to promote them. As far as I know, they don't even know I exist. I'm just finding the booklet life-changing & simply wish to share the benefit with others.​​​

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lisa
14/5/2021 11:26:04

thank you for your blog!!!

Myrtle Rising
14/5/2021 11:52:39

Thank YOU, Lisa!

Yana
14/5/2021 15:31:35

Beautiful chizuk!
Have a wonderful Shabbos and may we merit to receive Torah truly "anew" this Shavuos!

Myrtle Rising
14/5/2021 15:46:39

AMEN! Thank you very much, Yana.


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