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Suffering's Outcome

We endure hardship and pain.  We suffer when we deserve it and when we do not.  Yet, in our faith we believe there can always be a positive outcome to our suffering.  In fact, Rashi, one of the greatest scholars who ever lived, claimed that through our pain we become purified like smelted gold.  We learn from our tsooris, (troubles)
One thousand years ago he commented, "We embrace our troubles...to recall the miracles that bring us redemption." -Rashi on Shabbat 13b.

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