Sunday, August 22, 2021

Bitter, not bad

 When a person suffers, he shouldn’t say that things are bad. Rather, he should say that the situation is bitter. The Almighty does nothing bad. Just as medicine, although it might be bitter, is beneficial, so too events are always beneficial even if they are bitter.



Rabbi Moshe of Kobrin

quoted in Gateway to Happiness 

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