STOP Fighting God's GPS: The Truth About "Your Plan"

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

And she said, "Why are you going this way?" I said, "Ma, it's it's ways. There's a satellite. It knows traffic is telling us." So she protested by saying, "Ways is not from the neighborhood. [laughter] Who should surrender to whom? Should I give in to God and do it his way or should I really be busy protesting, appealing, talking to him and trying to force him to conform?" Who should conform? Hashem is infinite, unfinite. He's all knowing and all seeing. I'm your mortal and I'm finite. Like there's someone I sometimes get a ride with a drive with who for some reason has this aversion to using ways or Google maps. Whenever we go, he says, "I know how to go. I know the shortcut. I know where to get on. I know the express lanes." I say, "You can't see around buildings. You can't see around corners. You can't see five miles in advance. You don't know where an accident happened, where traffic built up, or where the police are hiding. Why in the world? Why in the world would you follow your limited intuition of how to go instead of the satellite in the sky that sees further and better, more accurately, more precisely, and tells you and knows exactly where to go? Why in the world? And I struggle and I debate and I argue with him each and every time. Each and every time. One of my favorite stories. Couple summers ago, my daughter had a baby in New York and I was going with my mother-in-law to go see and meet this baby. Was at a hospital in the Northshore and I was following ways and

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1. 0:00And she said, "Why are you going this way?" I said, "Ma, it's it's ways. There's…
2. 0:30Like there's someone I sometimes get a ride with a drive with who for some reason…
3. 1:33it was taking me a different direction she was used to. She kept critic she's not…
4. 2:35game. Stop. It takes three seconds. Put it on and it's going to tell you again.…
5. 3:06neighborhood, he created every neighborhood. He runs every neighborhood. He knows everything about every neighborhood. He's…
6. 4:09good by definition and for the best. So enough Goldberg. Stop dialing and asking. Stop controlling…
7. 5:12Hispel. What form of the verb is his pal to pray? It's pale. It's the reflexive…
8. 5:45and I change and I transform myself, what I'm saying is it's a new me. So,…
9. 6:45is not the person who did all those things. Is not the person who all the…
10. 7:47this several times for several people, and I've never seen that before. Usually whatever the decision…

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