When Life Makes No Sense: The Power of Emunah - Rabbi Lazer Brody

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Going to tell you a beautiful story, true story that I heard from the Asia tour Rabbi Cleveland, Rabbi of Cleveland, the my esteemed colleague and really good friend Rabbi Chaim Feld, may Hashem bless him. He used to teach, maybe he still does, a beginning Judaism 101 course in Case Western University or Western Reserve University, that's a university in Cleveland. And he gives a Judaism course. And he started off, this was at the beginning of the September the fall seminar, right before high holidays, and people come up, they sign up for this, there's some Jews, some non-Jews. And he asked a question. He says, "Who knows, whoever heard of the word emunah? Who knows what the word emunah means?" And one guy raised his hand. He didn't expect anybody to know what emunah means. He says, "Well, uh how do you know the word emunah?" And the student in his class, he says, "Rabbi, you're not going to understand, you're not going to believe the story, but I'll tell you how I learned it." He said, "Where did you learn it?" He says, "I learned it from a barmaid in Alabama." "From a barmaid in Alabama? How'd you learn from a barmaid in Alabama?" He says, "Well, like this. Last semester, in the winter, uh me and my two buddies from the fraternity house, we decided that we want to go to Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras is right between semester break, between winter semester and spring semester. So, we got in the car and went from Cleveland to New Orleans, and from

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1. 0:00Going to tell you a beautiful story, true story that I heard from the Asia tour…
2. 0:31the September the fall seminar, right before high holidays, and people come up, they sign up…
3. 1:31Cleveland to New Orleans, we go by Alabama. So, when we're in Alabama, we decided that…
4. 2:01Emunah. E M U N A. That's it. So, uh she sees that one of the…
5. 3:32and he had this book called The Garden of Emunah there. So, what does she tell…
6. 4:03and they touch me when I don't want to be touched. All kind of I don't…
7. 5:04She told him the story that lost my my boyfriend. He up and left me. He…
8. 5:36you know, the waitress is not easy." He says, "Mary Lou, I don't have the answers…
9. 6:36Wow. Well, she listened to Mary Lou, and she looked at the book, and she looked…
10. 7:08that a young Jewish guy in Cleveland learned the meaning of emunah. And this is the…

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