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It is written, “For though the tzadik may fall seven times, he will arise, but the wicked will stumble through evil” (Proverbs 24:16).
There is a beautiful explanation of this verse by the rebbe of my rebbe, Rav Yitzchak Hutner, a leading sage who headed the Chaim Berlin Yeshiva. Rav Hutner explains that the real meaning of this verse is not that the tzadik manages to rise again after falling seven times, but that the essence of the tzadik’s rising is through his seven falls. Through these falls, he gains new insights and strengths which enable him to rise higher. (Pachad Yitzchak – Letters and Writings, p. 217)
In my BBA this morning we read, "There were many failures, but there were a few heartening successes." Somehow it sunk it, the idea that we grow from our failures (sometimes more then our successes).
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