You're Trying TOO Hard | Living with Emunah #381

What’s said in this shiur

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

following Wednesday is Yom Tov, so we will resume immediately following Pesach. But you don't need Emunah sheer erev Pesach or Pesach because all of Pesach is one long Living with Emunah sheer. The Seder, our two nights of sheer in Living with Emunah. It's what Pesach is all about. It's what the Haggadah is all about. It's what Seder night is all about. Not about complicated, intricate, cute divrei Torah, gematrias, arts and crafts projects. That is not what the Seder night is all about. What the Seder night is all about, and I can't emphasize this strongly enough to you, what the Seder night is all about is a lesson, a a platform, personal stories of emunah. We're not commemorating 3,300 years ago. We're talking about our own yetzias Mitzrayim right now, in the present, our own experience. We're going to talk about the shavua ago, though, how we leave Egypt together, the addictions, the bad habits, the things we want to change that are enslaving us in our life. But we all have our own story, and the Pesach is the chance to tell it, to tell it to family, to tell it to friends and neighbors, uh to tell it even to ourselves if we find ourselves having a Seder. Nobody should have a Seder by themselves. But we're telling the story of our own discovery of Hashem, our own finding him in our life, of feeling his hand guiding us through whatever we are going through. So we're not not having Living with Emunah shiur of a Pesach, but everyone is their own maggid shiur. Everybody's giving shiur on Living with Emunah. You're giving shiur at your Seder table, you're giving shiur at your Yom Tov table, and come in prepared. Come in prepared. I'm not sending you emails to read, but you should come in

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1. 1:37following Wednesday is Yom Tov, so we will resume immediately following Pesach. But you don't need…
2. 6:21Monday before Purim, at around 2:00 p.m., we received a call there might be a kidney…
3. 11:34"You know what? I'm going to do the minimum cuz really it's Hashem who's in charge."…
4. 16:53Shabbos kallah forever, if you think it's going to be a chuppah and a sheva brachas…
5. 21:47in back then you were allowed to say New York Times in front of an Aron…
6. 27:09darshaning the emails. We gave a whole shiur already. This is just to make me feel…
7. 32:22has value whether you send it or not. So, she encouraged me to simply write it.…
8. 37:04said, "We've got a flight for you." Yeah? Okay? I don't know more than one person…
9. 43:23davening for the mundane. Somebody wrote in a comment on our live stream, "I lost my…
10. 49:05Bashamaim mim'al, but when it comes to heavenly things, spiritual things, look at the people who…

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