Living With Emunah (Part 222) - What You Have, Not What is Missing

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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.

The one sentence said The one sentence said In your last Emunah shiur, your wife made a brilliant comment. Could you forward this email to her? So, I'm very happy to be her mailman and I delivered to her. And it was a beautiful email. Maybe we'll share parts of it at one point. But we get back to the topic that we are studying in Sheini Nissan that we are in the month of Adar. But no matter what month in the year that you're listening to this, if you're live with us in person or live with us online or you're listening later no matter what month we have to be b'simcha. Simcha is a critical component to life. Simcha is life. Simcha, joy, happiness, satisfaction, feeling complete and whole, recognizing that we're not alone but rather everything that happens is for a reason. There's meaning, there's purpose, there's order to the universe. And we spoke last week, it doesn't mean that we can't sometimes be sad. There are moments of grief, there are moments of loss, there are moments of pain. Of course. It doesn't mean that there aren't real and justified reasons to feel sad, to be down. Even if there's not a particular reason, there are people who struggle with feelings of sadness. Sadness is a very real feeling. It's a very real feeling. However even within the sadness we can find joy. What does that mean? It means that there's nothing as whole as a broken heart. It means that even when you're feeling down and even when you're feeling sad and even when you're struggling to remind ourselves, to remember to be intentional and mindful that I'm not alone. I'm not bearing this, I'm not going through this, I'm not struggling with this alone. There is a God. There is a Ribono shel Olam. And he's in charge and he's

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1. 1:35The one sentence said The one sentence said In your last Emunah shiur, your wife made…
2. 4:47really rather not. I don't feel like it. It's a sin. But it's a mistake. It's…
3. 8:31questions. He always has great questions. Um He has a great question. If a person This…
4. 11:34was not several thousands of years ago. We're talking less than 200 years ago, that's what…
5. 15:10this past Shabbos who's observing shmita in Israel and what it's like. Hashem make it rain,…
6. 18:25The answer is that simcha, joy, and sadness are not external, they're not about possessions, materials,…
7. 22:11work, not someone entitled who wants a handout. They work harder than anyone I know. Just…
8. 25:20And that doesn't dishonor whoever was option A. They they want you to have that that…
9. 29:03when you violate your own boundary, choser hatzlacha, or you uh fail, shover os amud, it…
10. 32:07This was supposed to be the week." When you're sad and you're down, it's very hard…

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