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You’re Not Stuck

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Rabbi Tzvi Sytner

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So Tuesday night, I'm officiating a wedding in New York. And I had a flight back Wednesday morning, thankfully, because I had a funeral to officiate on Thursday morning. So I needed to be back. Anyway, Wednesday morning, I wake up and I see that our flight's delayed. I'm like, "Uh-oh, okay, fine, we'll still make it." Then it's delayed again. And then our flight is canceled and rebooked for Sunday. And I'm thinking, "Oh my gosh, I need to return to Toronto. Like I I I I can't be stuck here. I got to be back. I have a funeral tomorrow morning." And we're trying to think, "What can we do? What can we do?" And then my wife says, "Oh, let's reach out to this other couple. They're driving back and maybe we can get a ride with them." We reach out to them, they helped us, baruch Hashem, and we were able to get a ride back to Toronto with them. I think about this story cuz I'm like,

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  1. 0:00So Tuesday night, I'm officiating a wedding in New York. And I had a flight back…
  2. 0:30that's kind of like every single one of us right now, right? What did we want…
  3. 1:00It's the time of teshuvah, the time of return. If you feel stuck, just reach out.…

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