יגער ה׳ בך השטן

So over the weekend, I discovered that darling wife needs a TON of (ludicrously expensive) dental work, and her license was suspended in New York, and between the two the little "extra" money we saved (on top of our aliyah savings, we had budgeted extra money for incidentals and luxuries) is gone. And of course, the money means nothing when it is darling wife's health in question.

This is all after the fun we had a month ago, when DW woke up one morning, randomly, with what turned out to be a swollen patella tendon and spent three weeks barely able to walk. And our lil baby girl choked and wound up in the hospital overnight, though Baruch HaShem she is okay.

I mentioned to darling wife that I think this is the Satan doing his best to interfere with our aliyah. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction - the more Kedusha in something, the more tuma'ah there is standing against it, trying to negate it. (This is the meaning to what קהלת said, זה לעומת זה עשה אלקים. One is always opposite the other.) In our case, it is the decision to go to Eretz Yisrael, to embark on our Lech Lecha, to be a part of the unfolding and the flowering of גאולה. We want to rise up, to ASCEND, and the Satan is acting as a counterweight, trying to pull us down and get us bogged down in the daily morass of little problems - so our minds cannot have time to contemplate our Aliyah La'Aretz.

And so I quote the נביא זכריה.
ויאמר ה׳ אל השטן יגער ה׳ בך השטן ויגער ה׳ בך הבחר ירושלים הלוא זה אוד מוצל מאש.
It is precisely the G-d that chooses Yerushalayim that denounces the Satan and stands to protect those who choose the same "Yerushalayim" that He does.

May the road get easier and straighter from here. Amen.