Living With Emunah (Part 240) - Simcha and Churban

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

about happiness and joy simcha joy for life through the work of morgenstern and he ends very appropriately there are no coincidences nothing is random or chance but he ends with inyan at sara how could we spend all this time talking about how our default disposition how our instinct and intuition has to be for simha simcha joy and happiness and smiles what about the khurban are we supposed to be mourning and grieving aren't we supposed to feel it's absence and loss aren't we supposed to be pained by the fact that supposed to be pained by the fact that there is no base i make dash there is a silica the withdrawal of the divine presence rather than feeling an intense hashrat so how do we reconcile which is it should we walk around and people say what's the matter what's wrong say didn't you hear didn't you hear what vasa miktash was destroyed many many years ago when we were children my brother was working one summer in a laboratory and he wasn't shaving it was the three weeks and somebody there in the lab and non-jew i think was an asian person asked him you know i could tell you're not shaving what's the matter he said not shaving what's the matter he said i'm actually in mourning i'm so sorry i didn't hear you you had a loss i said yeah my people are the jewish people at a loss what happened the temple was destroyed so i get the newspaper i read it every day i follow the news i didn't see anything i didn't see anything i missed it i said well it was it was 2 000 years ago 2 000 years ago and and you're mourning and grieving today and the napoleon is quoted famously as saying when he passed by in his conquest on tish above a group of

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1. 0:34about happiness and joy simcha joy for life through the work of morgenstern and he ends…
2. 3:38that place of miracles to go regain that confidence in hashem i don't have place to…
3. 6:40he says of of non-jews who don't suffer from an absence of a based on mikdash…
4. 9:48what we might call rishis it doesn't fit into either mitzvah or average it's neutral when…
5. 12:53that is very different than shoveling into our trap as much food as we can mindlessly…
6. 16:07makshava yields it makes me besimcha but my sencha is bittersweet because as happy as i…
7. 19:11they're still crying now i'm not talking about today when my children were teenagers living at…
8. 22:15but you still miss laughing or hugging or dancing with or learning together or playing ball…
9. 25:50my faith empowers me to know that they're where they're meant to be they're in a…
10. 28:57there's even a little simcha in that why because you say you know as much as…

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