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Emuna in the Dark

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Rabbi Lazer Brody

An exploration of the significance of covering our eyes during the Shema prayer and what it represents in our faith in Hashem.

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  1. 0:12[Music] with hashem's loving grace this is later brosie from the south Mediterranean Coast in Israel…
  2. 0:42you ask any religious person and say how do you say the shma prayer and they'll…
  3. 1:12the reason is when we say shma is is the Declaration of her unswerving faith in…
  4. 1:42our eyes symbolize logic this is something we could see we could see the stars in…
  5. 2:12to level of amuna because where intellect leaves off that's where emuna begins and this is…
  6. 2:42everything the day King David says in Psalm 92 to talk about your loving kindness in…
  7. 3:12night time well we can't see so well we don't understand what's happening to us so…
  8. 3:44higher intellectual level than intellect because even if a person has the greatest formidable income IQ…
  9. 4:14of divine wisdom that's an Insight that amuna gives a person that takes him way back…
  10. 4:44and Psalm 92 is a song of thanks to so a person why did what's the…

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