Failure's Response

H' knew that this would happen. The fruit will be eaten because H' gave them free will. We have "Yetzer Hara , and Yetzer Ha' tov, and we need both to continue so we live in this convoluted world . H' knew that since way before. but let it happen! , It is we who must grow, in this convoluted world and make it better, by failing many times and starting again. With each failure we learn. H' knew, knows, and will always be with us, Reply

Brilliant, Rabbi Tzvi. Thank you.

It may take us many years to realize that there is a valuable lesson to be learned when we fail or stumble, and think ourselves I’ll used.
No. The answers lie in just these lessons that teach us so much, especially in humility. Reply

I think Adam would also exclaim, "In fact, You made me in such a way that I would choose to eat from it!" I have always found this hard to understand. Reply

Thank you rabbi for offering a different perspective to the meaning of our challenges in life. During Elul this is especially helpful. Reply

Logically, if indeed we can rise "infinitely higher" then the depths of our soul must be at a zero height and the rise remains finite and indefinite. It is time for these mysteries to be exposed or at least for some straight thinking to be faithfully expressed. Reply

So what if we fall on our faces more than a few times, it’s no big deal! How else can you actually learn right from wrong, if you don’t fail, if another person doesn’t take the opportunity to have a talk with you, or if you’re lucky you’ll get smart after a while and realize exactly what a foolish person you’ve become. People make such a big deal about punishment, or chastisement, but never give a second thought to some of the pain that wrong doings bring to the innocent people to happen be on the same path when we’re at our worse. Think about the other person who you might have hurt for once, then you just might waken up to want to learn your lessons from the wrong you’ve done. Life isn’t easy and either you learn to roll with the punches or you wise up and change for the better. Listening to the voice of G d never killed anyone that I know of, and I don’t actually think G d wants to do that to his beloved creations anyway. Reply

Messiah I think the end of Adam jorney is finding the key of living forever. When the death will be remooved from the planet surface. Keeping in mind that medical since is expanding more and more, there is not a lot of time to wait.

(sorry for bad english, but i'm trying) Reply

Failure This concept is good to know. I have felt that my whole life has been a failure, but I see now that there is hope for the future redemption. B"H Reply

I like it. Above all, very encouraging and helpful in everyday bustle. Reply

Success From Failure We can only know something by comparison to it's opposite -

The desire to please your self was implanted within you,so you would be able to discern His goodness from the evil inclination within us.

Through spiritual labour explained by the Kabbalists, the inclination to feed yourself from the 'tree' will turn into the Tree of life - the inclination to 'feed' others with the Light. Reply

I am sorry, but for the first time, I disagree with this line of interpretation. It implies that G-d would actually want us to fail in order to find Him.
I may be a simpleton, but this type of logic defies common sense, and the reason why G-d gave us the Ten Commandments in the first place...
A bit too much for me, but thanks. Reply

Adam's failure Perhaps i error but in the Torah, i find no indication that Adam failed as a result of the tree or the serpent. Adam's sin (and his judgement based on that sin) was that he followed the word of someone besides his CREATOR - even if that someone was his very own wife = bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh. Eve also committed this same sin in following the word of another (the serpent) than the word of her CREATOR as given to her by her husband. However i imagine this observation is not politically correct thus not easily accepted. Reply

Paddle back out and catch a better wave in the right direction! Family and relationships seem directed towards failure in America. Our modern society encourages a myth of "success" through forgetting our own history and culture and following commercialism and pop culture. Focusing on each individual as a separate entity is useless. Unless individuals realize who they are and their role as a Jew living on earth today take leadership and enforce Jewish laws following the ways explained through the Torah, then our people are failing as a whole from within. Passivity and unawareness grows into ignorance! Reply

Fruit of knowledge of good and evil Many have that question of why plant the tree of knowledge if we are not to eat from it. Why plant the temptation? It makes better sense to me that Gd's wisdom is beyond our wisdom. Each and everyone of us must reach for what is good and guard ourselves against those that do evil. Thanks for the Torah we can reach for that knowledge of what is good. I look forward to Rosh and Yom and to living be closer to a congregation so not to feel so alone as Adam must feel leaving the Garden of Eden and this RRRR town is like living in a hell for me. Reply

todays daily dose beautiful!! very simple & understandable, yet meaningful! thank you! Reply

Failure I cannot believe that Hashem, blessed be He, is constantly testing us. He knows our nature. We are in the flesh. There is too much to deal with on an everyday basis. Too many minds, and each with its own world. And there is also the spiritual world, those enemies of Hashem, who are constantly trying to bring us down to prove that we, in the flesh, are weak, vulnerable, false. Then the battles, intermittent, which are impossible to overcome without His help. How could, a Supreme G-d, Merciful, and All Mighty, knowing our susceptibility, leave us alone in the field? It was not, I refuse to believe, that it was all planned to have man fall from grace. That could only be planned by G-d's enemy. My King is Pure, Faithful, and Everlasting Truth. Baruch Hashem! Reply

failure O Hashem bring Your people to true Teshuva. That we can merit the coming of Moschiach speedily in our days and the House where Your glory will dwell without the Ark. Teach us Your way of life and truth. So the Nations will come praising You. Reply

thank you for daily basis of contemplations! today i am confused by 2 apparent contradictions/ or questions concerning the last sentence: (a1) if the reaching higher is beyond Eden, then what is higher than "Eden"? (a2) "beyond Eden" does not mean "higher" than Gan Eden, but simply the location, i.e. beyond [the borders of] Eden. (b1) I don't see how failure leads to reaching higher w/o end. (b2) failure + recognition of Divine plan behind the failure/hardship might help "make peace" with the past failure or present hardship, but nothing is written about how this in itself leads to reaching higher w/o end. (c) Adam was condemned to toil his whole life; how did he reach higher? How can we (I, myself) reach higher after failure.... i am confused by the apparent lack of clear lesson today. PLease elaborate, bs"d!!!
thank you and bircas col tuv Reply

society needs messages Society thrives on failure. Failure magazines far outsell regular news. Bullying, the bully and his crew, is a never ending story with some very bad results. The whole concept of Tikkun Olam is lost in this morass of stigma. In my humble opinion, if we want this to change we have to send messages. Send robbers, political, civil, and private to jail for long periods. Kill the worst offenders. I know that thieves in some countries have their hands chopped off and yet that does not deter theft. Well, i am not so sure. Where the Death Penalty exists it is well known that it is not a deterrent to murder. Big deal. In murders where the evidence, DNA, witnesses catch a perpetrator, use the DP. Kick shady politicians caught red handed out of office. When GWBush went to war in Iraq, Cheney and his buddies made huge profits off the public purse. Colin Powell quit after being forced to lie. For offshore accounts tax evaders, seize accounts. SEND A MESSAGE. A Just Society is dependent on it. Reply