Faith, Emunah - The Foundation of a relationship with God?

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

[Music] thank you tonight's the last night of the year tomorrow night it's Rosh Hashanah we just finished praying davening of the year of the year I hope it was a good one the last day of the year feels a bit like a person who's about to set out on a long journey who's been in a place for a long time and he knows he has to leave he walks around the town he walks around the streets and things seem to have a different Look to Him the perspective the knowledge that he's going to leave that he's going to leave he sees everything very differently things seem to blur a bit or he seems to pull back his focus seems to enlarge the specific in the individual becomes merged with something bigger something greater the last day of Elo is really like the last day before a compulsory Journey time is a compulsory Journey To The Future tomorrow whether we like it or not Hashem is going to recreate bring another year a new year a new reality everything that was written everything that was conceived of is coming to an end and we must go forward that's the feeling that L brings us it's a Feeling this has come to an end now and a new thing is beginning and what will that bring essentially on Rosh Hashanah a person is being judged for his emuna to make Hashem the king of the world that means how much do I really believe there's a God I may understand intellectually that's true but how much do I live that how much am I living in that reality that there's a God that's the goddess is somebody who sees me

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1. 0:02[Music] thank you tonight's the last night of the year tomorrow night it's Rosh Hashanah we…
2. 3:07from Ealing healing comedies they were called and one of them I remember so well starred…
3. 6:09rolled over that little stettle and they rounded up all the Jews and they carted them…
4. 9:44to know and to believe that there's a God let me ask you a question if…
5. 12:53righteous person and specifically in the area of modifying one's character to be a person who's…
6. 16:32now some people have a Muna stronger than others and other peoples the Moon is not…
7. 19:40and he became very depressed very frustrated and he ran away he ran away and he…
8. 22:47uses those two words to no one to believe people have different levels of belief some…
9. 26:19and he says to him with tremendous says the little boy this Zionist he says with…
10. 29:21a lion of faith a rabbi who had lost his family his wife his 11 children…

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