In Memory of Shmuel Leib ben Zvi (Lewis Berkin) & Baruch Yitzchak ben Yirmiyahu (Barry Pessin) Ki Tsavo5783

Rashi (Bereishis 18:16) states, "Whenever the Torah states "gaze", it is bad. The exception is the pasuk (in this week's parashah 26:15)

We can explain that this is because it states השמים מן קדשך ממעון השקיפה, "Gaze down from Your holy abode, from the heavens…" We mention that Hashem looks down from Heaven, and when we remember that even the hardships are under Hashem's hashgachah, we know that everything is for the good.

A water carrier would carry two pails of water over his shoulders and sell it to the townspeople. Once, one of the barrels fell on a nail, which created a small hole at the bottom of the pail. When he filled up the buckets with water, by the time he got to the customer’s home, one pail was empty. He didn't have money to buy another pail, so this went on for a long time. When he got old, he didn't have the strength to carry the pails anymore, but he still had parnassah. He explained, "There was a small hole in one of the pails, so I planted vegetables along the route that I carry my water. The vegetables grew from the dripping water, and from those vegetables

I have parnassah." So, the hole in the pail was for his benefit. This is how it is with all the difficulties in life. They are all for the good.