Living With Emunah (Part 150): Illusion or Reality?

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

morning to look into a camera to say everything is good and everything's from my Shem everything is the way it's meant to be but you know what that's all when well when well and good enough but what about what someone's struggling or suffering what about when it doesn't have a happy ending what about when you can't look back and make sense of it what about when it feels permanent and irreversible and there's real suffering and real tragedy and real loss so just last night someone left me a voice note I don't know them and I tried to respond to it it was so beautiful oh how sympathetic and empathetic they were to another family member who's struggling and they're trying to make sense of of a post I had written on our Emunah post I had written on our Emunah whatsapp group that Hashem doesn't give us anything that we can't handle the task by sham person to trust and I showed you so of know that his lesson will surround us he gives us he empowers us he energizes he inspires us he gives us the courage and the resiliency in the fortitude to be able to withstand whenever he throws our way and the person said well how do you know that and how do you see that what's the source for that and it doesn't feel like that for the people who are crumbling over under whatever bad news or whatever tragedy or ever hardship they have and I said you look the

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1. 1:35morning to look into a camera to say everything is good and everything's from my Shem…
2. 5:09life is by design is from above is with Hashem so how dare you say that…
3. 8:14someone would say about themselves I don't have a strong background the Bible would say do…
4. 11:50kitchen or the gym or the supermarket I don't care who walks into anywhere and any…
5. 14:54Express illustrate this idea Adam literally Tosa for Miami not be careless Oh Lavar foolish dos…
6. 18:28I think I'm empowered I'm in control is or do we pause and say a brother…
7. 21:35ask the person whose car has broken down and they can't get it to start ask…
8. 24:38charge don't think you're in control and then if God forbid or when there is a…
9. 29:41creative brilliant people who so so so desperately want to be able to control and bring…
10. 32:43the Simca themselves but what other choice is there what other choice is there so these…

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