Devastated but Determined | TheZone Fire 2020

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] here we are about to usher in the month of ello the month before rosh hashanah if we think about last year rosh if we think about last year rosh hashanah if we only knew then what we know now what a difficult year we're going to have to live through how much we would have prayed with such strong praise hashem to spare us to make the year go well we didn't know that last week hashanah we didn't have that extra drive push for us to have that extra drive push for us to do what we had to do if we only knew but now we do know now we're in the midst of a difficult year hasn't ended yet the problems so we have to keep in mind how much we have to pray to hashem on these days of order about upon us pretty soon ura in its own way has suffered greatly because of the difficult year that because of the difficult year that hashem has put upon us so many of our programs that we are so proud to uh and so special in our eyes to present to everybody have not been able to be fulfilled we uh had to shut down shabbaton many times we had during the year we have could not have pressure could not have schwarz the men's retreat the women's retweet and the tire spot all these things plus more have been canceled because of the whole situation but we have to keep in mind realize that the staff of ura and volunteers worked through the winter all these months to try to supplement what that which was

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1. 0:00[Music] here we are about to usher in the month of ello the month before rosh…
2. 1:01have that extra drive push for us to do what we had to do if we…
3. 2:03the men's retreat the women's retweet and the tire spot all these things plus more have…
4. 3:05our grounds where we have our camp every year has been shut down we weren't having…
5. 4:07we've been uh for many years uh look at it great nostalgia so it's a traumatic…
6. 5:40and uh whatever has been keeping us back from doing what we have to do we're…
7. 6:43uh elevated in our service to have shown have a good job with everybody hello everybody…
8. 7:43it but that's really the way it always is hashem runs the world and it's not…
9. 8:45it's amazing that we were kicked out on sunday or monday everybody has to be out…
10. 9:47it seems like it's a punishment to the community people really were it seemed like that…

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