Welcome to the daily chizuk (encouragement). The Mishnah teaches us that we have an obligation to love Hashem no matter how He deals with us. A person has to train himself to always say, “Everything Hashem does is good.” We have to accept with love and always stay loyal to Hashem no matter what happens. Every time a person is presented with a challenge and he says, “Hashem knows what He's doing,” he fulfills a positive commandment from the Torah, as the Pasuk (verse) says, which means that we are commanded to realize that Hashem deals with us like a father deals with a son. Everything is with love and for our best.
But people not taught emunah (faith) have many questions. Why did Hashem do this? Why does Hashem do that? How could that happen? We don't always have the answers. But if we train ourselves to look at the world through the eyes of the Torah, through the eyes of Chazal (the Sages), with the right glasses on, we'll never have any questions.
Two people could look at the exact same situation from different vantage points and come to two totally different conclusions. Someone could have been in a car accident, lo aleinu (God forbid), and one person observing might say, “How could Hashem do that to him? He's such a tzaddik (righteous person).” But another person could say, “Wow, what a horrible accident that was. Baruch Hashem (Blessed is Hashem), it's just a few broken things, broken bones; in a few weeks he'll be back to normal. Look how Hashem protected him.”
Or you could have a person who's a poor man, and someone observing might say, “It's not fair, he's always struggling. Why does Hashem so mean to him?” While another person might say, “Look how Hashem always takes care of him. He always manages to get by no matter what the situation is.”
We always have to justify Hashem. We see things that don't make sense, but not everything is always the way it seems. Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky was once looking up at the sky, and he asked the Brisker Rav, “How could Rabbeinu Tam hold that it's not considered night until 72 minutes after sunset? I'm looking now when it's totally dark.” And the Brisker Rav said back to him, “We don't look at the sky for answers. We look at the Shulchan Aruch, because the eye could be misled, but Shulchan Aruch always tells us the truth.”
And so too, everything Hashem does is good even though it doesn't always seem that way to us. When we have the right perspective, the way the Torah tells us to think, it's much easier to accept, and you know you will always be correct. The Torah guides us to the truth. But people who don't look at things from the Torah's perspective can make grievous errors.
We know Darwin had his theory of evolution, that man comes from monkeys or apes. How did he come to this conclusion? He looked at the monkey and he looked at man and he saw so many similarities. So it must be that we came from them. But Rabbi Falk said that his problem was he didn't know Chazal. The Gemara, Masechet Sanhedrin, on page Kuf Tet (109), discusses the people who made the Tower of Babel to fight Hashem at the end of this week's parasha. And it says there that their punishments were divided into three, and one third of those people were turned into monkeys.
Darwin was right. There are many similarities between human beings and monkeys, but he got it the wrong way. He thought that the monkey turned into a human being, but in reality it was the human being that turned into the monkey. There's actually a blessing that a person could say on a monkey: Baruch meshaneh habriyot, that Hashem changed the creation.
We have to see things from the right perspective. Hashem is always right, and Hashem only wants to help us. The more this is ingrained in us, the happier we will become. Shabbat Shalom.