Akiva's Emuna

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

Today's podcast is entitled Aka's Amuna. Well, today I want to go back to basics to something that sounds simple but takes a lifetime to build. Amuna real trust that whatever comes from Hashem is ultimately for the good even when it doesn't look good even when it hurts even when it makes no sense in the moment and that's amuna. I want to do this through the lens of one of the most striking figures in Talmetic tradition, Rabbi Aka. Specifically, there's a question that's hard to ignore once you notice it. Rabbi Aka, he had access to the giants of his time, Rabbi Yeshua ben Khan and Rabbi Alzar Ben Horinus. These two sages are the foundational pillars of the oral Torah. So much of the Talm is built around them. So why would Rabbi Aka step away from them and spend 22 years as a student of Nakamish Gamu? Well, Nakamish Gamsu was unquestionably a great sadic, he was a holy man, even associated with miracles. But in terms of religious law recorded in the Gomorrah, very little is brought in his name. So what was Rabika doing with him for 22 years? Why not squeeze every possible moment from his two great teachers that were shaping the future of Torah? Well, there's another dimension that makes the question even sharper. In the Gomorrah, when Rabbi Alzar is on his deathbed, he speaks to Rabbi Keva painfully. He says, "In effect, Aka, you should have spent much more time learning from me." He says, "I only learned a tiny droplet from my teachers, and you even received less from me." And then he tells Saka

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1. 0:01Today's podcast is entitled Aka's Amuna. Well, today I want to go back to basics to…
2. 1:02name. So what was Rabika doing with him for 22 years? Why not squeeze every possible…
3. 2:37everything is from Hashem and that it's all from the best even when the best is…
4. 3:39start crying and Rabika laughs and they ask him aka how can you laugh? So aka…
5. 5:10visit and Rebelizer he was fierce wrath. He said there's going to be a fierce wrath…
6. 6:11Did I neglect anything? What? Why should I deserve to suffer at all? Surika answers him…
7. 7:44to sleep. And then he hears a crowing and a wild animal came and killed his…
8. 8:45after he had an explanation that it was for the best. He said that when he…
9. 10:22oneness when you see what's happening to you? Wherea says something that's almost impossible to imagine.…
10. 11:25history, no enemy can uproot us. For Rebea's contemporaries, they could [music] have been encyclopedia bratannicas…

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