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The Yanuka’s own words in this shiur, translated into English by Lehallel · 420 words · 1:42. Press a time to hear it said.
0:00 Chanah, who was in pain, and every day a heavenly voice would come out, a son is destined to be born who will be called like Shmuel, he will enlighten the eyes of Israel. Each one first used to call her son - Shmuel. And Chanah did not know that this was said at all about her son. It was said about her son. What, you do not know that this will be your son? And what, did Chanah not have ruach hakodesh, the mother of Shmuel the prophet? Sometimes, with a person, they want to hide something from him, to test the person, when they want to choose him for a test, they hide it from both.
0:30 Sometimes a person is found at such a level that, from so much of his sorrow and pain, he prays, So Chanah's heartbreak was something she took to a very extreme place that no one had taken it to. She also came with a complaint to the Holy One, blessed be He: why did You give me these organs if not in order to nurse and so on, to use... They had many tests, but she took it very hard, because apparently she saw with ruach hakodesh that something very great would come out of her.
0:54 She wanted it, she did not want a child with a stroller in the market, she wanted a child in order to pass a message to him, she wanted a child in order to teach him the purpose, wanted a child in order to pass on to him her knowledge and her way in the world, so that after she is no longer here in the world, she will have a continuation, she will have offspring who will continue her way, her knowledge in the world, and that was her goal. And because of that she had very great pain, and prayed with all her strength, prayed with all her intent. It seems that perhaps all these humiliations also - what ultimately drew this son to her, Shmuel the prophet - if she had not gone through so many humiliations,
1:29 Who knows if she would have received this child; they even thought of her that she was drunk. You can learn from here, it does not matter how you pray, pray to the Holy One, blessed be He, with such intent, it does not matter what the creations will think of you, the main thing is that you pray to the Holy One, blessed be He.
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