Seeing Hashem's Hand In Our Lives - R' Ari Bensoussan (Bitachon) STORY

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

Lockerbie when a bomb detonated in the hold and sent 259 people hurtling to their deaths. 11 more died in the town itself. I was born in Scotland and as I listened to the news I felt connected to what had happened even though I'd never really actually visit Lockerbie. I did not know that I was about to become connected to those events. Basically on the second night I'm not going to read the whole thing. The second night of the disaster, one of Manchester's leading Chevra Kadisha a close friend of his called him up and um he said that he needed a crucial call. he said that he needed a crucial call. The Chevra Kadisha spent a day fruitlessly trying to gain access to the Jews who had been killed on that flight. There were some Yidden on that flight. He asked if I could give him the private phone number to Scotland's Secretary of State. It was only recently that Scotland regained its own parliament yada yada. Until then it had been ruled by At that time the man who held the post was Sir Malcolm Rifkind a cousin of my late wife. So I know this guy. It was his number that the Chevra Kadisha was desperately seeking. I couldn't of course give out his private number, but I promised I'll call him myself. Sir

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1. 0:30Lockerbie when a bomb detonated in the hold and sent 259 people hurtling to their deaths.…
2. 1:30I promised I'll call him myself. Sir Malcolm's wife was reluctant to let her husband speak…
3. 2:31I told him that I understood what he was saying, but I was asking for his…
4. 3:32falling through the air at around 200 mph ripped clothes from the victims' bodies, every Jew…
5. 4:33things that are beyond our understanding that baffle our minds. Now, listen to this. The story…
6. 5:34I have no way of knowing precisely where his tefillin were at the time of the…
7. 6:35stories happen to us. I you know, I don't know to what degree, higher, smaller, better,…
8. 7:38forests. This news threatened to overwhelm him, though. It certainly overwhelmed me. Shortly after he was…
9. 8:40studied medicine at Newcastle University across the river from Gateshead. When I was there I used…
10. 9:42used to cross the River Tyne once a week to teach college students and members of…

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