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A discussion on the hidden struggles of trauma and the lessons from this week’s Torah portion.
A 2 min parsha shiur by Yaakov Lemmer. Like every video on Lehallel, it was judged and approved under the Lehallel law before it ever appeared — no unreviewed result is ever shown.
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Have you ever looked at someone and seen strength on the outside, but inside they were silently fighting a battle no one could see? This week's parsha of Va'eira opens with a people crushed by pain so deep they couldn't even hear words of hope. The Torah says they didn't listen to Moshe because of shortness of breath and crushing labor. They didn't ignore him. They weren't weak. They were broken. [music] And the Torah understood that. As the Chofetz Chaim zt"l taught, the As the Chofetz Chaim zt"l taught, the words of Torah are only complete when they are lived [music] with human dignity and compassion. Torah isn't fulfilled through study alone. It's fulfilled in [music] how we treat those who are suffering. This week, we mourn Joshua, [music] Josh Boone, zichrono livracha. A lone soldier who voluntarily served in the IDF as a combat sniper. Josh wasn't just a soldier. He was a mentor, a friend. He was the person who always said yes, who showed [music] up for others again and again.
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- 0:00Have you ever looked at someone and seen strength on the outside, but inside they were…
- 0:30As the Chofetz Chaim zt"l taught, the words of Torah are only complete when they are…
- 1:01for others again and again. But after his service ended, his inner war continued. Years of…
- 1:31seen as a moral failure instead [music] of a medical condition, Josh was denied the full…
- 2:02[music] teach us, that healing begins when we see the invisible. The silence around suffering [music]…
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