He Renewed His Driver's License at 95. (Here’s His Secret)

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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.

this 95 year old renewed his driver's license recently and he told me in the options he qualified. He passed. He's very strong. He's a very special person in our community. He's strong. He leads Davening. He loud voice. He sees clearly. He passed to be able to renew his driver's license. And he told me this is al such a like Jewish idea of faith and optimism and hope in the options it gives you. He checked off. He renewed it for 10 more years. We say in modm, one of my personal favorite prayers, you have to concentrate in modm every day. Pause and say thank you. There is so much to be grateful and thankful for with all that's missing and all we need and all we want and all we wish we had. If you pause to realize what's there, we woke up today. I have my faculties, a roof over my head, a car to drive. I have whatever I have the miracles of every day. and the wonders and your goodness. Problem is we don't feel them. We take them for granted. How many of you, how many of us actually pause today to say, "Thank God I can see. Both my eyes are working. Thank God I can walk. Thank God I can." It's when the person needs the knee replacement or the hip replacement or the this replacement or the that replacement. That's when they say, "I it takes me forever to get from here to there. I took for granted the ability to walk. I remember several years ago when I tore my Achilles playing ball, I had

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1. 0:00this 95 year old renewed his driver's license recently and he told me in the options…
2. 1:03Problem is we don't feel them. We take them for granted. How many of you, how…
3. 2:06the ability that your Achilles work your Achilles work the Achilles the tendon in the back…
4. 3:08realize it? When you tear your Achilles, when you rip your Achilles, and when you have…
5. 4:08And the miraculous salvation, the answer that Hashem provides that sometimes is revealed and sometimes is…
6. 5:09don't know and we can't be thankful for. Let us see and know and notice. Let's…
7. 6:11Let me be satisfied and gratified by it. Let me see it. Let me notice it.…
8. 7:12in our community. He's strong. He leads Davening loud voice. He sees clearly. He passed to…
9. 8:15the the is coming either way. I see it. I don't see it. I notice it.…
10. 9:17It's a close second, but nobody gets off the plane. You're just on to the next…

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