The Meron Tragedy: Hearing The Message

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

hashem's message they say yeah i don't want to hear the message what does that mean what message we have to change but what's the message when is their message what's the message where is their message when is there a message huh hello tragedy see i'm gonna tell you you just said always there is always messages being sent to us always however we choose to ignore it how would a person choose to ignore ignored that would be stubbornness stubborn i'm not listening that would be part of it the other is that somebody is so involved in their own life their own enjoyment their own pleasure whatever you want to call it pleasure whatever you want to call it i don't want to think about anything else let me alone so imagine the guy and we've been given this marshall repeatedly a guy he's got his headphones on and he's got his rolling blades on and he's just rolled the blades it's a beautiful day and it's just like he's not seeing nothing he can't hear because the volume is so loud and he goes right into forget about a and he goes right into forget about a cliff that would be like kind of you know intense second go right off the cliff that's an unusual case but typically you might go right in the farmland in the street and they're cars the guy's going right at the edge in fact it's so cool because i was just i was just somewhere where the guy was going down the middle of the street on a like i don't know what it's called huh oh no not a skateboard the thing with

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1. 0:01hashem's message they say yeah i don't want to hear the message what does that mean…
2. 3:08and we just take it all for granted that we it's coming to us we don't…
3. 6:12and it's even what they say and what they leave out but everybody said the same…
4. 9:21so i said okay so we had a year of that that didn't seem to phases…
5. 12:31all of a sudden you're at this event and everyone's going yeah how many guys are…
6. 15:39the high art but i saw the ishmael cabarzel i'm going to make the heavens like…
7. 18:51a natural habitat you never see that huh yeah because muncie is a loser place it…
8. 22:03he says okay i'm not gonna wipe you guys out for good and forever and completely…
9. 25:08okay takes a knife right in your [Applause] he's legs and then he goes okay he…
10. 28:11nicer be nicer helping caring not being sarcastic i mean these are not such deep things…

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