get better and go outside again to play. But at the same time, had we not been forced, we might not have taken the medicine. “Well, apparently God had to do the same thing for the children of Israel. ‘Yes,’ God said, ‘the Torah is difficult. Yes, accepting the mitzvot, all of the commandments, is a very weighty matter. But sometimes, the hard things that at first seem unpleasant turn out to be good for you in the long run.’ Sometimes in life we need to be forced to do the right thing. Only later