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A reflection on Parshas Vayera about presence, healing, and vulnerability, inspired by the Piaseczner Rebbe.
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You ever felt invisible? Like people saw your smile but not your pain? Like you were in a crowded room but you were [music] completely alone. This is not just a mental health struggle. That's para's vira. The para [music] opens up with a quiet intimate moment. Verira Hashem. Hashem appeared to Avan. No conversation no instruction just presence. [music] Hashem shows up after Aram's wrist when he's in pain, Aram's wrist when he's in pain, vulnerable and recovering, and he doesn't [music] speak. He simply appears. Because sometimes the most powerful thing you could do for someone in pain is just show up [music] and stay. How often do we hear from people, no one saw me, no one believed me, nobody was there for me. And that's why the words of Reblanimus Colman Shapiro the piaetsal are so haunting and true where he said there is nothing more damaging to [music] a soul than to feel unknown. When a person's pain is invisible they start to disappear [music] inside
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- 0:00You ever felt invisible? Like people saw your smile but not your pain? Like you were…
- 0:30Aram's wrist when he's in pain, vulnerable and recovering, and he doesn't [music] speak. He simply…
- 1:00start to disappear [music] inside themselves and when we choose to see them their struggle their…
- 1:31She needed honesty. And once she spoke her truth, others finally saw [music] her as human…
- 2:03coming to teach us. That presence is healing. That silence can [music] be sacred. and that…
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