TODAY'S MESSAGE IS DEDICATED
IN MEMORY OF ABRAHAM ben ROSA A'H
BY EDDIE AND HELEN SHAMAH AND FAMILY




            My friend Joseph has had a streak of bad luck lately. Business has not been up to par, his car was stolen, and his daughter fell off her bicycle and fractured her arm. Need I say more?

While we shared a short break over steaming coffee, Joe popped the inevitable question. “Why me?” he asked.

It is a question that Moshe Rabenu posed to Hashem, but to which he received no clear explanation. G-d replied: “It is My business, not yours.” There is a reason for everything that happens, but human beings are incapable of comprehending it. It is senseless to ask why, and even more futile to try and figure out the answer to that timeworn, universal question about the human condition. Our attitude must be to accept the will of our Creator wholeheartedly, whether or not we understand His strategy.

Isn’t it funny that when faced with problems, people ask, “Why me?”, but when good fortune arrives, no one asks that question? Someone who does not wonder why good things happen, should not seek the reason for disaster, either.