A PURIM lesson about LIFE | Rabbi Shais Taub

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you ever go through a really hard time and it feels like life just makes no sense here's a lecture I gave about the holiday of porm a couple of years ago that helps us to try to find meaning when life seems crazy's coming up one of the Mitzvah of puring is that one should attain a state generally it's uh the way the sages describe it is it's induced chemically but the uh the state is one in which one does not know the difference between blessed be morai the uh hero of the for story and cursed is hon the the villain of the story so what the say is call until you don't know and this whole notion of not knowing it what does it mean not knowing obviously it doesn't mean that a person doesn't know right from wrong because that would be a terrible thing if you weren't able to distinguish between what is moral and immoral but what it actually means is look at the porn story itself porm story is absolutely crazy every that looks like a good development ends up being a bad development everything that looks like a bad development ends up being a good development the whole thing is it's twisting and it's turning and it's surprising and nothing is what you think and nothing is what you expect and basically that's a lesson about life means that I honestly do not know and I'm going to try to stop making judgments about

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