Living With Emunah (Part 197): We are Just an Instrument

What’s said in this shiur

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

we're not in charge we're not in control we're not to blame we're not to take pride or credit but to realize that we do our best we do the most with what we have we recognize and appreciate the gifts that we've been given and ultimately we surrender we submit to hakuras to the almighty the third step of the 12-step program we spoke about last week within the recovery world the notion that there is a higher power and only when a person realizes that i cannot i cannot on my own i need him i rely on him i lean on him i submit and i rely on him i lean on him i submit and surrender to him that is when we are able to conquer that's when we're able to take on the world and all that it will confront all that it will challenge us with we're in the middle of a long footnote on page nun isle of page 51 in beyond i try to share with you the emunah stories that you our beloved listeners and watchers share with me it strengthens us the stories themselves not only the torah content not only the deep meaning and ideas but the actual stories so a woman in our shul i ran into actually shared with me an amazing story

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1. 1:01we're not in charge we're not in control we're not to blame we're not to take…
2. 3:32morgenstern so we've been learning about the media of bitl the notion that when a person…
3. 6:06we know that god takes up he is the entire universe he lets us live the…
4. 9:08her feel much more comfortable it was a generous magnanimous thing that he did and he…
5. 11:44emotionally it means spiritually it means in our hashikafa to not be consumed and fixated to…
6. 14:47i go to the doctor but while waiting for the diagnosis the test result while going…
7. 17:27it will lead to no good but if i let go of my ego if i…
8. 20:00is not in order to deplete or distract or take away from our happiness it's actually…
9. 23:02wow i just made contact with the divine i had great mazel god was good to…
10. 25:33and it's true for every one of you whatever you're in in life whether at home…

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