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

you should know that you didn't send me here. It's not your fault that I was sent here. It was orchestrated by God. Hashem sent me here that I should be a source of sustenance for the whole family to save the whole family. says the realization realization that the bad things that happened to a person is really for the good and it didn't happen because of the person that did it to him or her is a way to ensure that a person doesn't nurse grudges, a person doesn't harbor thoughts of vengeance. and harbor hatred in their hearts. It's not an easy thing. But Y is saying, not an easy thing. But Y is saying, "Hashem wanted me down here. You didn't cause me to come down. And look, I became visroy of the entire land. Incredible honor." So there is Y first says and he says it twice. He says first of all you have to understand I was sent down here because of he doesn't saysim is so he says first of all I blame myself I spoke to I made you jealous within with a multicolored cloak so there's I I blame myself. He he he recognized that it was it was he says it again. He says, "I know there was a a measure He says, "I know there was a a measure of me against me, an attribute of judgment." Also says we know that our forefather we're told that these wheels had to turn that we going to be enslaved and afflicted 400 years because of said how will I know? So we know I know that there's an element of this and it takes training and it takes training this this way of looking at things that even when somebody causes you distress, hardship, misfortune. It's not coming from the person. It's coming from Hashem. This outlook there's a interesting

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1. 0:31you should know that you didn't send me here. It's not your fault that I was…
2. 6:20they take away the merits and they give it to the person that they talk about.…
3. 12:41word doesn't just mean a moment. It means to turn to and his meal offering. Hashem…
4. 20:03One of the reasons is is that su success generates jealousy. People are jealous of successful…
5. 25:46But I want to show you an interesting thing. Sadness is the same letters as sea.…
6. 32:08saves people from shame you save me from shame people were saying I'm the trophy wife…
7. 38:24valuable cloak. He went into a cave to deposit there and we heard a tremendous yell…
8. 44:14believed brisk there's a covenant to the lips. If a sadic says something it happens and…
9. 50:42things. But I wanted to say a lesson here that we could sink our teeth into…
10. 56:54yeshiva and as he was collecting money so the rich people said we'll give you money…

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