How Could the Massacre of October 7th Happen? God's Love, Providence, Judgement & Punishment

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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.

how could God let this happen how could this happen to us God's people on the holy day of rejoicing in God's Torah on on the holy day of the Sabbath Shabbat how could we get hit in such a way and so so we have to address that we have to address that and the further we are away from when when it actually happened the more appropriate it is to discuss that we have to understand nothing happens in this world without God and so as hard as it is to understand we we we believe in God and understand we we we believe in God and we've been hit before and ultimately it doesn't affect our devotion and Trust in Hashem and we have to address it now so what happened how could such a thing happen so so it's no it's no secret that we have enemies that want to kill us so I want I want to come from a little bit of reverse a reverse angle here and say like this instead of asking how could this have happened ask how could it not have happened the day before and the day before the year before years before there are so many people we see it now there are so many people we see it now coming to the Forefront that hate Jews hate Israel anti-Semitism anti- God when it's all said and done because we're after all God's people we're just pawns on the board here it's God's board if you hate us you're hating God the Creator and so the miracle is how come this didn't happen before how come it hasn't happened a hundred times with all of our enemies around the world and so discussing deep Concepts from Divine Providence you bringing some mystical Concepts in I think the the one way to

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2. 2:04everything that happened was from God now don't be naive to think that when these stories…
3. 4:07safe of Yeshua and we see God said go into that City go around and circle…
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5. 8:14decree that anyone should die he doesn't say that I'm going to punish all of you…
6. 10:20step back but this time it's not because I want to give you your space to…
7. 12:21decision by God as this stricter judgment maybe because of our Behavior we all have to…
8. 14:29unfortunately if we're hateful spiteful hurting each other destroying each other when there's fighting and when…
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10. 18:35these people call themselves people that that that are that think that they using their head…

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