QUESTION:
How is it not a contradiction that we need to accept everything on this world as a blessing that Hashem gives us because everything He does is good, when we also know that there are bad things on this world and even the best people can have very bad faults in them when they aren’t self-aware and they don’t work on themselves?
ANSWER:
In the blessing of Borei Nefashos we say, “He created many souls and their deficiencies.” Every thing in Creation will have a deficiency to it, and it was created so that we can daven for our deficiencies to become completed/perfected and so that we can work to complete/perfect it, and to believe that that is deficiency came from Hashem in order to awaken a person that he needs to believe, pray, repent, and fix the deficiency in his character. In every situation we need to clarify what the main part of our avodah must be, in relation that deficiency that we are seeing.
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