The Power of Gratitude - Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein ZTL (Hakarat Hatov) STORY

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

summoning difficulties 85 percent deaf she learned to lip read and with the help of hearing aids managed to succeed in the world of those blessed with hearing she had her own business designing producing and installing decor for shopping malls her first marriage ended in divorce leaving her with one daughter at the age of 36 julie started to connect with her jewish roots and became religiously observant then when she was 38 she married bruce the man of her dreams bruce she had custody of his three daughters from his first marriage so julie happily found herself the dedicated mother of a herself the dedicated mother of a close-knit family bruce was a successful professional they lived hopefully in a big house and upstates in an upscale suburb for 10 years julie was living her dream on a wintery morning in 2009 the dream abruptly ended bruce 48 years old fell down the stairs hit his head he died almost immediately the shock of her husband's death was followed by another shot of his three life insurance policies he had let two of them laughs this included the largest policy which was to have supported his three daughters bruce had also neglected to daughters bruce had also neglected to write a will and to change the beneficiary of his retirement account after his first wife divorced him so pretty much she lost everything by law half of the large house and bruce's other assets should have gone to his first wife but she and her daughter sue julie and managed to get a hundred percent leaving julie with nothing even worse she turned bruce she turned to bruce's daughter now the other the first the mother of his daughters she turned bruce daughters against julie almost overnight julie lost her husband her close-knit family her house and her

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1. 0:33summoning difficulties 85 percent deaf she learned to lip read and with the help of hearing…
2. 1:04herself the dedicated mother of a close-knit family bruce was a successful professional they lived hopefully…
3. 2:05her close-knit family her house and her financial security she was 85 deaf okay naturally julie…
4. 2:36julie realized that she was standing at a crossroad she could spend the rest of her…
5. 3:37aids exist for my car for finding myself living within walking distance to rabbi shmuel silver…
6. 4:07organizations she sent her resume to her friends one of her friends sent it to the…
7. 5:09smiling it's all good gratitude however is not a one-time fix but a daily choice julie…
8. 5:40and it's very true i can tell you this from experience it's very true that if…
9. 6:42you a reason to cry fish above spanish position holocaust everything that happened on the on…
10. 7:13a mode that going to cry and it's going to be a day of complaining so…

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