Feeling Hashem's Presence in Our Lives - Story about Chofetz Chaim - Rabbi David Ashear (Emunah)

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

life my father died when he was 10 when I was 10 we were very poor they sent me away I was sent away to Yeshiva I was alone in life I had no people that no family he said it was time for me to get married and I was part of an elite group they were throwing the money at us we were an elite group in Yeshiva and we could have any girl that we wanted and be able to sit and learn he said but my stepfather he wanted me to marry his daughter and they were very poor and I felt bad for my mother I said poor and I felt bad for my mother I said out of respect for my mother I'm gonna marry his daughter she was much older than me and at the time I didn't understand all my friends getting married to like the girls like this and I was getting married to a poor girl he said but it turned out she had the greatest issued Heil she stuck with me she pushed me to learn she was the greatest wife I could ever want and he said like this he told that man he said throughout all of my ordeals I was able to stay strong by knowing that was able to stay strong by knowing that Hashem was holding my hand the entire time and taking me exactly where I need to go if a person feels that Hashem is with him they could bear even the darkest of times somebody told me a story a few weeks ago he said that in the last war with Gaza in 2008 the first soldier that was killed was named devere emmanueloff and his mother his mother already lost

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1. 0:32life my father died when he was 10 when I was 10 we were very poor…
2. 1:03poor and I felt bad for my mother I said out of respect for my mother…
3. 1:33was able to stay strong by knowing that Hashem was holding my hand the entire time…
4. 2:04and his mother his mother already lost two years before her husband in a car accident…
5. 2:36there was some type of Arts Festival in Israel her daughter wanted to go she didn't…
6. 3:07Angel's parents were a couple of rows back they said hey shall come back stop bothering…
7. 3:39and it said in me so much and that day the doctor told me that I…
8. 4:10she they said what you are yeah and in a moment of emotion they picked up…
9. 4:40relative and Panamanian relative and he really wanted to go he said but I had two…
10. 5:12somewhere on a bus and sitting across from me is a man from Panama that I…

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