Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai: Beloved Are Afflictions
Translation by https://www.sefaria.org.il/Sifrei_Devarim.32.13?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=enR. Shimon b. Yochai says: Beloved are afflictions, three gifts having been given to Israel by the Holy One Blessed be He, which were coveted by the idolators, and which were given, through afflictions, only to Israel: Torah, … Continued