A shiur exploring connecting to Hashem in the present moment with acceptance and emunah.
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Okay, good evening to everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. Hope everybody has the sources or source sheets if anybody needs as we jump into a brand new essay, a brand new uh chapter, which I'm starting to understand are not actually chapters, which is probably why they don't have chapter headings. They see seems to just be a collection of essays. So, I'm going to stop saying what chapter it is. But we've arrived at page num days to begin a new topic on this journey into this realm of his spodus of spending personal intimate time with Hashem and personal intimate time with Hashem and what the dynamics of that time are like what what that means to spend one-on-one time with Hashem in the context of espodus spontaneous personal prayer personal connection. So let's begin. The title is which is the present not the past and not the future. This is a very nuanced topic and so we're going to try to cover it as clearly as we as we can but it might clearly as we as we can but it might take a little bit of thought and questions and trying to reflect and to understand uh the depth of of what this actually means. But let's begin. He says amu they have instituted I don't know who the they is in this context maybe breast of old the previous generations but they've instituted a cl of principle that there's a certain kind of prayer and a certain kind of where a person
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- 31:18[Music] means we have nothing and we can do nothing. Not thinking about the future and…
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