



40-DAY YISURIM LOG
Chart the number, frequency and severity of your yisurim.
The gemora (Arachin 16b), Rashi, Maharsha and many others tell us that tzaddikim are punished in this world so that they can get their reward in The World To Come, whereas rishoyim are given their reward in this world so they won’t be due any reward in and therefore be excluded from The World To Come.
It has been said that the tzaddikim of olden times used to get worried if they went 40 days without experiencing any yisurim, because they were worried that maybe they were getting their reward in this world, which meant that they had lost their portion in The World To Come.
The 40-Day Yisurim Log lets you keep track of your own frequency of yisurim. It is a laminated chart laid out like a compact yearly calendar, with each line containing 20 dates (we couldn’t fit 40 dates on one line). Each time you experience a yisurim, you use the included erasable marker pen to put a check in that day’s box. You can then see if you had any checks between your current date and the box in the line 2 rows above it. The marker pen’s erase-ability allows you to use The 40-Day Yisurim Log year after year. (On one side is the layout for a standard year and on the other side is the layout for a leap year.)
Here is a picture of part of it:



CURRENT STAGE OF PRODUCTION for The 40-Day Yisurim Log:
· Production is partially completed. The chart is made but you need to print it (and laminate it, if you want, and find an erasable marker pen).
You can download a free copy of The 40-Day Yisurim Log.
To download a copy in PDF format, click here.
SELECTED RELEVANT QUOTATIONS FROM SEFORIM HAKEDOSHIM
· (Rashi, Devorim 7:10, s.v. Umishalem) In his [the rasha’s] life He pays him his good reward in order to destroy him from The World To Come.
· (Yevamos 121b) Rabbi Abba said, …This teaches that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is exacting with those close to Him like a hairsbreadth. (Maharsha, s.v. elah dovor: …that is, He is exacting with them as we say, that He pays the tzaddikim punishment for their few sins in This World in order to merit them full reward in The World To Come…. If with tzaddikim in This World, all the more so with rishoyim in The World To Come.)
· (Arachin 16b-17a) It was taught in the yeshivah of Rabbi Yishmael, anyone over whom 40 days pass without yisurim, he has acquired his world (Rashi: In the West they say, punishment is prepared for him.)
· (Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz, Sichos Mussar, maamar 18, s.v. chavivosum) The likability of yisurim is not only because that through them a person returns and fixes up his ways, rather that through them it appears that Hakadosh Baruch Hu desires him, and because of that He reproves him. Because a person on whom no yisurim come at all, woe to him and woe to his soul, and as is written in the gemora Arachin (16b): “The yeshivah of Rabbi Yishmael taught, anyone over whom 40 days pass without yisurim, he has acquired his world in his lifetime,” and there is to explain that when he has no yisurim, they (Heaven) are not seeking from him that he fix up his ways, because he has already lost his eternal world, G-d forbid.
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