Turning Failure into Success (Seed 3)

Each child should see that he has been given the tools to turn failures into successes. A person who has no failings cannot grow. It’s not the mistake that matters but what he does with it. This world is difficult and there are a lot of hardships along the way. These challenges shouldn’t discourage us or make us feel like failures. On the contrary, they should challenge us to be better. It says in Mishlei, “A tzaddik falls seven times and then gets up.” Rav Hutner says it’s not despite the fact that he fell, it’s because of the fact that he fell that made him a tzaddik. Without the failures, he would not have been able to achieve greatness. Failures are not an end in and of themselves; they are a catalyst for success.