Your Loving Father

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

We want to talk about today, we're going to talk about your loving father, our loving father. And I want to address something that is probably not only a woman's and man's worst evil inclination, the worst yet Sahara. Now, if I would ask you, what's a man's evil worst inclination, evil inclination, a woman's? Don't say it. Don't answer me. But I'm going to surprise you. The worst one in my humble opinion is self-blame, blaming yourself. We have to understand that you said what to what when you look in the mirror and you're not good enough and this happened if I would have done this or done that. And how many times do I get emails today? If I would have only chosen shidduch number one instead of shidduch number four, I would have been better off and today I have shalom bias problems. No, young lady. Hashem wanted you to choose shidduch number four. That's your beshert. And we're going to learn two mindsets today. We're going to learn mindset before something happens and after something happens. And because people ask me also, where is emunah and free choice? There are really starting off learning about how Hashem is our loving father and we'll see this and I hope that in another half hour everybody's going to feel so much happier. There are three types of blame that people resort to when something bad happens to them. And then you can see that a lot of things like I said just came off of of the cardiac surgery. And uh lazy, you overdid it. You worked too hard and you exercised too hard and you did this and you run yourself into the ground. Hold it. Stop. This is

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1. 0:00We want to talk about today, we're going to talk about your loving father, our loving…
2. 2:03there's Hashem. Just remember that. There's no ashem, there's Hashem. No blame is only ashem. And…
3. 4:37the person says, "I already Gan Eden. What's the difference between here and Gan Eden?" Gan…
4. 6:42you've got someone to help you. No, only that. When the yateser tells you it's bad,…
5. 9:14But once it came the driving test, it's up to Hashem whether you passed or not.…
6. 11:50doesn't have to make excuse why he won the game. He always got excuses. Oh, the…
7. 13:56Did anyone in history have a more difficult life than David Hamelech? David Hamelech is my…
8. 16:29Avinu Malkeinu. The Ohev Amo Yisrael. This is what strengthens us in emunah. Once again, I…
9. 18:34Can you imagine that your shver is chasing you all up and down Eretz Israel to…
10. 21:06trust. We have this absolute love and absolute trust and we don't ask we don't have…

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