Yizkor Thought - Feeling the Presence of What is Missing (Shemini Atzeres 5781/2020)

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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.

[Music] the great wrath of sihershberliner was once asked why is it that on pesach we encourage our children to question manish tanna why is this night different than all others and yet on sukkos they have no such question isn't sukkas just as bizarre for them to leave the permanent to leave the comfortable structure and to go outside comfortable structure and to go outside to a temporary vulnerable fragile one it's just as bizarre it's just as peculiar so why do they ask on pesach why that night is different and yet go a whole week of sukis without asking the very same question ravsiris berliner's answer is both insightful and the same time truly tragically said he says to the jewish child our behavior on pesach is an aberration it's unusual for that child to see their parents reclining like royalty free and carefree like royalty free and carefree safe and secure a limb no threat no challenge royalty and regal reclining and free that's unusual to the jewish child as an aberration it's bizarre but to see the parents living vulnerable and fragile to be outside under a sukkah without knowing safety and security sadly that's all too normal for the jewish child and so they're not moved to ask that question and here we are once again

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1. 0:00[Music] the great wrath of sihershberliner was once asked why is it that on pesach we…
2. 1:03like royalty free and carefree safe and secure a limb no threat no challenge royalty and…
3. 2:35the lulula vanessa have been put away and the sukkah one does not need to sit…
4. 3:38historical event and yet it's a yantif it's a yantav that mandates and that brings a…
5. 5:10and that's what we were focused on for the week of sukkahs we sat in the…
6. 6:13subjected to nature our very existence is indescribable mark twain in harper's magazine famously once wrote…
7. 7:43when something is missing no mitzvah no historical event no theme there's no component to the…
8. 8:44uncles our neighbors and friends who are they're not physically here they're not tangibly present but…
9. 10:18that we're going through of who is there it hasn't fallen yet and it never will…
10. 11:19the sukkah that keeps us that keeps us going we ask you in memory of those…

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