Gam Zu L’Tovah **and** "Kol man d'avid Rachmana l'tav avid"

 Should we say that all is good even though we don’t feel it?

And the answer is yes! Because vehalachta bedrachav

– you have to walk in the ways of Hashem, and Hashem says

in the Torah: Vayar Elokim es kol asher asah – Hashem saw

all that He had made, v’hinei tov meod – and behold the

whole thing is very good. Hashem said this is a very good

world! And so, instead of walking around and grouching,

“It’s too hot. It’s so humid,” or “It’s too cold – it’s nasty; it’s

raining;” instead of that, we should always speak well of

Hashem’s world.

[me:  famine, terrorist attacks, viruses, poverty, et al.]

It’s hot? Wonderful! The apples are getting red on the

trees. The pears are becoming sweet on the trees. If it

wasn’t hot, they wouldn’t become sweet. If it’s cold, that’s

also wonderful! The earth now is taking a rest from

producing and while it’s taking a rest it’s recuperating all the

minerals it lost, all the materials it lost during the

summertime. Without the winter, there can’t be a summer.

If it was summer all year, the earth would keep on producing

and it would become arid and infertile. That’s why the earth

takes vacation in the wintertime. Cold is wonderful. Cold

forces the earth to stop producing.

Rain is wonderful. Without rain, we’re nothing. When

it rains, we’re coming down from the sky. You came down in

the rain once upon a time! We’re 80% rain. We came down

from the sky once. And people are grouching and

complaining about the rain. Here we were coming down

from the clouds and they were complaining against us.

That’s our chance to come to this world! That’s rain! And

therefore when rain comes down, all the boys of the yeshivos

are coming down and their future brides, the kallos from

Bais Yaakov, are coming down. They’re all coming down

together from the sky. So rain is wonderful.

So Hashem says it’s a very good world, and He wants us

to keep on saying that all the time. Hodu laHashem ki tov,

that He gave a very good world; and if you keep on saying it,

after a while, after some time, you’ll begin to feel it.

Source:  Rabbi Avigdor Miller zt”l

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"Kol man d'avid Rachmana l'tav avid” (Aramaic) =  "All that the Merciful One does, He does for good."