Why Do Others Have It Easier? | Letter #26

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

All right, good evening. Welcome to 30 letters in 30 days. This is letter number 26. 26. Shame Havaya. Um, we are really getting close to the I won't call it the end, but I'll call it the culmination. And uh I do hope to have news soon about whether there will be an event and what form that will take as far as the last class uh on Olive Nissen. Uh regarding the the last letter about growing a beard. Okay. Yeah. What was I'm say I'm reading what this the person's writing in the chat. What uh what was my favorite letter? So, uh, difficult to choose. Um, maybe I'll think about it and, uh, on the last night I'll share what my favorite letter was. Okay. We're going to jump in. Brooklyn shalom. The ninth day of year 5719 Brooklyn shalom which means the writing to a man greetings and blessings in answer to your letter from the third day of in which you write the general gist the main chapters may overall about what happened to you and how it all is worked out now. Uh basically you went through a bunch of stuff and now you're in a more I guess stable situation and then you conclude with a with a wonderment. you sort of uh are perplexed. mitzvah. Why is it that that when you want to ascend level after level in Torah study and mitzvah observance, you're suddenly beset with obstacles and difficulties and and and if that's not enough, you're doing the right thing and you're seeing uh problems, obstacles at the very same time, you young men meaning your peers who are uh not following the same path of Torah and mitzvah and they're living without these difficulties without toil without effort etc.

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1. 0:00All right, good evening. Welcome to 30 letters in 30 days. This is letter number 26.…
2. 3:34This is a classic question of why do bad things happen to good people and there…
3. 6:40because I know I say this a lot, [snorts] but one of the things that I…
4. 10:19You describe how you your arrangement, your current situation is that you have to train, you…
5. 13:37field. That's that's how I took it because it sounded like it's one field. Uh at…
6. 17:17You don't need any preparation for that. You want to just eat, drink, and be merry.…
7. 20:25The twilight zone literally, you know what they say in life, when one door closes, another…
8. 23:33pain is the gain and I know in English they say no pain no gain um…
9. 27:16I hope that these few lines will be sufficient for you to meditate upon. In other…
10. 30:20It's a Tory of life meaning everyday life. It is how to be successful in life.…

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