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Ordeal and Real Deal

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Rabbi Lazer Brody

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[Music] it's all good my lord with hashem's loving grace our lesson tonight is called ordeal and real deal when a soul comes down to this world it's going to go through ordeals because the opposite side the dark side the evil inclination it doesn't want that soul to be corrected but hashem sends it down here to be corrected and there is stiff resistance stiff resistance and all the resistance what we see and wars and it's all an allegory of the battle of the soul and it's a 120 year long battle and people are frustrated people don't have a muna there is no way and categorically sign a paper there's no way that a person can have inner peace or any semblance of happiness without a muna people just asked me this week they said rabbi lisa what are you talking about i'd like to go into politics but things in in israel are so unnatural you talk about the zionist government that they're kicking jews off the land in judea and sumerian bulldozing houses and then legalizing illegal uh arab settlements in the negev because they need them for the coalition and they say how could you sit quietly and how come you're not writing anything about that and everything that's going on so you know something there is one thing that makes me happy one thing that makes me happy if i never saw anything like that and if i just it's random and no immune explanation but rabbi shimon bar yo-hai said these things would happen they're going to vilna said these things would happen and we have our sages and they predicted a hundred years ago at 350 years ago and 1900 years ago that all these things

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  1. 0:00[Music] it's all good my lord with hashem's loving grace our lesson tonight is called ordeal
  2. 4:10enough says that a person should take one whole day off not shabbat one whole day
  3. 8:54sticking a knife in me hashem this is tough okay it's not complaining you're allowed to
  4. 13:05the right side which is emunah it's above nature then we ultimately win we that is
  5. 17:51nature above nature is miracles that hashem does miracles for you the miracles and the realm
  6. 22:37the two greatest torchbearers of the oral torah came down to them they passed us down
  7. 26:55my life in holiness i can't be close to hashem and if i can't be close
  8. 31:38an anti-anti-torah government made of aravrav made of unsavory politicians and they do everything against uh
  9. 35:50but how do we pass them we pass them with the real deal like we say
  10. 40:34okay so what do they do now they start rebbi kiva is perfectly awake no locals

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