Did Suffering Ever Make You Happy?

When poverty or other suffering has been decreed on a man, he is wise to utilize the opportunity of gaining the Perfection which is thereby thrust upon him. This then becomes a great good fortune for him. ‘When a man accepts the chastisement of G-d and improves his ways and deeds, he can rejoice at this as one rejoices at great successes’ (Shaare Teshuvah II, 4). — Rejoice, O Youth