HaShem's Infinite Goodness
HaShem gave the Jews three wonderful gifts — but none was given without suffering. They are: The Torah, Eretz Yisroel and the World-to-Come." Talmud, Berachot 5.
My brother's daughter lives in Israel and is getting married, b'h, this Sunday. He asked me to find him a flight to Israel over the internet. I checked Israir's website, and found him a direct flight at a decent price. He asked me if I can get him a flight Tuesday instead of Wednesday 12:20 am, but it appeared that Israir does not fly Tuesday. Wednesday afternoon he gets a phone call from Israir wanting to know why he missed last nite's flight. Whhhhhhaaaaaaattt? Turns out the flight is not Wednesday nite at 12:20 am but Wednesday early early morning, 12:20 am.
OOOOOOOOOPS, he didn't bother to check the date and the time and I made a huge mistake telling him the flight is Wednesday nite....
The next flight was full and he didn't want to take a chance to be on standby, so I had to find an alternative airline ASAP. B'h, found British Airways leaving JFK 7:30 pm Wednesday evening, with a stop in London for an hour. I quickly purchased the ONE WAY ticket at a ridiculously expensive price, $1,200. Because of last minute purchase, no kosher food was available to order.
Hakol letova.... (everything is for the best!)
Fast forward to JFK 7:30 pm, all flights are postponed due to storms in NY. The flight took off 2 hours late, leaving ZERO chance to make it to the connecting flight from London to Israel. Fast foward 8 hours, the plane arrives London 8:30 am and the connecting flight to Israel leaves 8:50 am, 20 minutes to run from the terminal to terminal 4 to catch the flight - but the only catch of the day was a magnificent view of British Airways airplane flying to Israel, without him...
The next flight to Israel is KLM, 10:00 am local time with 1 stop in Amsterdam but the flight is full and he registered for stand by. That's exactly what happened, he stood by watching all the passengers loading onto the aircraft and had another magnificent view of KLM airplane flying to Israel, without him...
The next flight to Israel is El Al, 3:45 pm local time but this flight was also full but again, registered for stand by. That's exactly what happened, he stood by watching all the passengers loading onto the aircraft and had another magnificent view of El Al airplane flying to Israel, without him...
The next flight to Israel is El Al, 10:30 pm local time and there is room on that flight. Hopefully, he'll get to Eretz Israel by 6 am, Friday morning, if there are no delays in a good mood, after missing numberous flights, delays, no food, and no sleep...
There is one more thing, his luggages are currently missing...
We could live with Murphy's Law that, "Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong", and live a miserable life, or live with the law of Nachum Ish Gamzu, zs'l, that "EVERYTHING THAT GOES WRONG IS REALLY RIGHT," and live a much happier life.
Rabbi Yannai, zs'l, says in Pirkei Avot (4:15) that wicked people live peacefully, while righteous people suffer. I once heard a Rav that said that when a person is suffering to attain a goal, know that it comes from Kedusha (holiness) and vise versa; if there is no suffering and comes easily, know that it comes from the Tumaa (impurity).
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My brother's daughter lives in Israel and is getting married, b'h, this Sunday. He asked me to find him a flight to Israel over the internet. I checked Israir's website, and found him a direct flight at a decent price. He asked me if I can get him a flight Tuesday instead of Wednesday 12:20 am, but it appeared that Israir does not fly Tuesday. Wednesday afternoon he gets a phone call from Israir wanting to know why he missed last nite's flight. Whhhhhhaaaaaaattt? Turns out the flight is not Wednesday nite at 12:20 am but Wednesday early early morning, 12:20 am.
OOOOOOOOOPS, he didn't bother to check the date and the time and I made a huge mistake telling him the flight is Wednesday nite....
The next flight was full and he didn't want to take a chance to be on standby, so I had to find an alternative airline ASAP. B'h, found British Airways leaving JFK 7:30 pm Wednesday evening, with a stop in London for an hour. I quickly purchased the ONE WAY ticket at a ridiculously expensive price, $1,200. Because of last minute purchase, no kosher food was available to order.
Hakol letova.... (everything is for the best!)
Fast forward to JFK 7:30 pm, all flights are postponed due to storms in NY. The flight took off 2 hours late, leaving ZERO chance to make it to the connecting flight from London to Israel. Fast foward 8 hours, the plane arrives London 8:30 am and the connecting flight to Israel leaves 8:50 am, 20 minutes to run from the terminal to terminal 4 to catch the flight - but the only catch of the day was a magnificent view of British Airways airplane flying to Israel, without him...
The next flight to Israel is KLM, 10:00 am local time with 1 stop in Amsterdam but the flight is full and he registered for stand by. That's exactly what happened, he stood by watching all the passengers loading onto the aircraft and had another magnificent view of KLM airplane flying to Israel, without him...
The next flight to Israel is El Al, 3:45 pm local time but this flight was also full but again, registered for stand by. That's exactly what happened, he stood by watching all the passengers loading onto the aircraft and had another magnificent view of El Al airplane flying to Israel, without him...
The next flight to Israel is El Al, 10:30 pm local time and there is room on that flight. Hopefully, he'll get to Eretz Israel by 6 am, Friday morning, if there are no delays in a good mood, after missing numberous flights, delays, no food, and no sleep...
There is one more thing, his luggages are currently missing...
We could live with Murphy's Law that, "Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong", and live a miserable life, or live with the law of Nachum Ish Gamzu, zs'l, that "EVERYTHING THAT GOES WRONG IS REALLY RIGHT," and live a much happier life.
Rabbi Yannai, zs'l, says in Pirkei Avot (4:15) that wicked people live peacefully, while righteous people suffer. I once heard a Rav that said that when a person is suffering to attain a goal, know that it comes from Kedusha (holiness) and vise versa; if there is no suffering and comes easily, know that it comes from the Tumaa (impurity).
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