Living With Emunah (Part 192): Dark Clouds Blocking the Light

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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.

take a personal privilege and dedicate today's learning of living with emunah in memory of two very special people in my life whose yahrtzeits are coming up. My grandmother, my Bubby, Ruth Abeles, Yenta Rochel bas Shmuel. My Bubby Ruth Abeles, Elizabeth, New Jersey, taught generations of students at the JEC. She was a primary teacher. She taught them to read and write, but she taught me and our family a lot about emunah. Her favorite pasuk, "Taamu u'reu ki tov Hashem." Even when she lay in the hospital, even when she was sick towards the end of her life, she would say, "Taamu u'reu, just taste and you'll see that God is good." If you think God is good, it's because you're not tasting. You're not connected. You're not involved. You're not invested. But if you are invested in a life, a relationship with him, taamu, if you understand, if you taste, u'reu, you would see ki tov Hashem, that Hashem is good. Also in memory of my first cousin who tragically passed away very young last year, Melissa Stein, Missy Stein, Metuka Sarah bas Idel, also a woman of tremendous emunah. She saw Hashem Hashem everywhere. At her funeral, her children described, on the way to school, she would see something, a butterfly, a

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1. 1:02take a personal privilege and dedicate today's learning of living with emunah in memory of two…
2. 3:40it." And it's kafui tov. It's a lack of gratitude to Hashem to not take advantage…
3. 6:46come about and why and why these holy individuals? Why these holy individuals? So I want…
4. 9:56boy whose brother was killed and he's being crushed and didn't know if he'd live and…
5. 13:05So we daven, we daven, we daven for the victims, they should have an ilui neshama,…
6. 16:14one, only he can know what's good or bad. We know what's painful or pleasurable. And…
7. 18:59our right hand and we cover our eyes. Ask any child, why do you cover your…
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9. 25:20And also during davening and while learning, if you want to wake up your heart to…
10. 28:25Shalvim, they sang. They sang at Ari Fuld a shem yikom damo's funeral. While waiting for…

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