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By: Rabbi Shalom Arush
“1 Am Hashem"
When a soul completes its 120 years on the physical earth and leaves the body,
Hashem reveals Himself to the soul. At this awesome moment, Hashem says, “I am
Hashem”. What is Hashem telling the soul?
"Know that everything that has happened to you in your life is all because ‘I am
Hashem’. All of the hardships that you went through and anything that didn’t work
out for you are all because ‘| am Hashem."
Still, what does it mean that all of this was because “I am Hashem"? It means that
everything that happened was only for your own good ~ whether Hashem was
helping you or not helping you - and you ignored all of this. Then the soul/person
will understand everything. He'll understand that he lived a lie and was mistaken his
whole life and “woe to such embarrassment’
We see that the essential rebuke on the Day of Judgment will be for a lack of emuna
and this will cause insufferable embarrassment. The rest of the mistakes a person
made in his life were all the result of not living the fact of Hashem’s existence: he
didn’t know that everything is Hashem. He didn’t see Hashem in his. As a result, he
is where he is with whatever sins he sinned. Only then, will a person grasp how he
lived a lie his whole life - one big mistake from beginning to end, because he didn't
live the fact of “| am Hashem’,
Our sages note that, Yosefs could stand in his rebuke when he revealed himself to
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them: "His brothers were not able to answer him because they were panic-stricken
before him". How much more so when the Holy One, Blessed be He, comes to
rebuke each person according to his deserve as it is written: ‘I will rebuke you and
arrange before your eyes’.”
Don't wait for Judgment Day. From this moment
on, Whatever you go through in life, remember “I
am Hashem” -- everything is from Hashem
When dealing with any of life's difficulties, there
are only two options: the first option is to
remember that it’s all “I am Hashem”. The
second option is to be totally fooled by all of the
confusion of this world, attributing power to
nature, diseases, bacteria, viruses, and so forth;
or to think that the problem was caused by evil
eye, witcheraft or some imaginary attack; or to
blame and get angry at a friend, boss, or spouse; or to blame oneself and to fall into
depression. These are the illusions that hold a person back from coming close to
Hashem or utilizing life's challenges for repenting. The moment a person
recognizes "I am Hashem!", he's already ascended beyond the illusions and
confusions of the material world. Then the picture becomes clearer and he begins to
understand.
We understand from this the need for a daily cheshbon hanefesh — self-evaluation
and judging oneself in light of everything that happened during the day. Ask
yourself, "Did | see Hashem in everything that transpired?", "Did I say thank You for
everything’, "Did | try to understand what Hashem was teaching me through each
event and experience?" By doing this, a person won't be embarrassed on the Day
of Judgment, because he will already know that in this world everything is only “I am
Hashem’ and he already asked forgiveness in this world for anything that he did
wrong, trying to fix what needed fixing
Emunais not just knowing that everything is “| am Hashem”, but also knowing that
everything is for good. Genuine emune says that everything Hashem does is for the
good and there is no bad in the worid at all. Therefore, the first thing with every
situation is to know that it's from Hashem and that it's for the good and say thank
‘You for it all. Only then can a person try and understand the good in the situation
and what Hashem wants to teach him. Just remember three words and you'll always
succeed: "| am Hashem."
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