The Gemara in Avoda Zara 18A talks about one of the ten martyrs, Rabbi Chanina Ben Tradyon- the one that taught Torah publicly. What the Gemara holds them responsible for is beyond our understanding. As we said, he was from the ten martyrs, which were coming to replace the Shevatim . The Gemara says he was to be burnt, his wife was to be killed, and his daughter was made to sit in a home of ill repute. When they were brought out to be punished each one of them said a different pasuk. He said, הצור תמים פעלו God is a rock. His actions are perfect. כי כל דרכיו משפט Everything that He does is just. His wife said, אֵל אֱמוּנָה וְאֵין עָוֶל צַדִּיק וְיָשָׁר הוּא. God is a loyal God, a trusted God. There is no inequity. He is righteous, He’s upright. And his daughter said, גְּדֹל֙ הָֽעֵצָ֔ה וְרַ֖ב הָעֲלִֽילִיָּ֑ה אֲשֶׁר־עֵינֶ֣יךָ פְקֻח֗וֹת עַל־כׇּל־דַּרְכֵי֙ בְּנֵ֣י אָדָ֔ם Great is the advice, and many are His deeds, that You look at the ways of every individual , which, as we discussed yesterday, is about the tremendous Hashgacha/supervision that Hashem has on people. Says Rabi, How great are these three Sadikim, that these pesukim just came to them? All three of them came up with one of three fundamental pesukim which are called Siduk HaDin, which means that we accept God's judgment and we say it's righteous . According to some opinions, it’s one of the 613 Mitzvot- to accept God's judgment as righteous. The Ben Ish Chai says something fascinating. If we look at the first letters of each one of these pesukim- Gedol HaEitzah starts with ג Gimmel, El Emunah starts with an א Alef, and HaTzur Tamim starts with a ה Heh, it spells גאה Ge’eh, arrogant The arrogant one is the one that doesn't understand these three principles. And this is very important. We keep seeing the connection between arrogance and Emunah and Bitachon. Rav Yehezkiel Levestein discusses this at length and says that questioning God comes from arrogance. He says to imagine a very simple person that goes to a shiur/ class of a great Kabbalist. Is it possible for him to argue and question the great Kabbalist? If he does, it's coming from arrogance. Who do you think you are? Do you have any understanding, any grasp of the topic at hand, that you're going to give your opinion? If there were three brain surgeons deciding on a difficult brain surgery, would you pipe in and give your opinion? Where does that come from? That is arrogance. It’s audacity. That's chutzpah. Who do you think you are? And that's really what interferes with A) our Emunah in God's righteousness, and B)our Emunah that God is controlling the world to make everything happen. Like we said, God is the one that gives the advice. So there is a fundamental, underlying arrogance, which is a lacking that causes us not to be able to see straight, nor appreciate what we don't understand. There's a story of a man that went to the Chazon Ish and said, “I don't understand the Holocaust. I don't understand what's going on.” The Chazon Ish took out a certain Gemara that was very difficult, and started learning with him. The man didn't understand the Gemara. So the Chazon Ish said to him, “ You expect to understand the Holocaust? The Holocaust is like a Gemara without Rashi, and without Tosafot. It’s like the Gemara without explanation. We don't have the ability to understand it. And if you think you're going to understand it, that is coming from arrogance.” There are two factors to this arrogance: Number one is thinking that you're going to understand what God does. And number two is taking credit for what happens. As we said yesterday, God is the one that's responsible for all Eitzot/advice, and the Avudarham says, that's why, in Arbit, we say in, “ Please set us up with good advice.” We have to understand and believe that all of our ideas are nothing more than God's good advice; because all of our ideas are meaningless without His advice. As the pasuk in Tehilim 33,11 says, עֲצַ֣ת ה׳ לְעוֹלָ֣ם תַּעֲמֹ֑ד The ideas of God last forever. The reason we make this prayer at night, he says, is because when a person lies in his bed tossing and turning, he’s thinking, and that's when he gets his ideas sometimes. So we're asking Hashem, “Please put good ideas in my mind.” Like it says, “ רַבּ֣וֹת מַחֲשָׁב֣וֹת בְּלֶב־אִ֑ישׁ וַעֲצַ֥ת יְ֝הֹוָ֗ה הִ֣יא תָקֽוּם׃ Man has many thoughts,” but we're looking for Eitzat Hashem that that's inside of it. To recap- we have to see and understand our limitations specifically in these two areas- 1- Our limitations in understanding what God does, which leads to what's called Siduk HaDin, accepting the justice, accepting why it is that good people sometimes suffer. 2- Understanding that we don't make things happen because God is ultimately the power. Our Ga’avah/arrogance doesn't want to accept the fact that we didn't do it. Have a wonderful day.