Rabbi Joey Haber: Making Sense of the Midwood Tragedy

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

for the past 72 hours most homes sounded something like this husbands and wives and children sitting around one person would say it's crazy and the other person would crazy and the other person would say it's crazy and then someone else would say it's the craziest thing I ever heard and that was basically all that happened in our community in the past 3 days and I'll tell you the truth I sat in my house and said the same thing so when I was asked to speak I said I have absolutely no clue what to said I have absolutely no clue what to say no idea Aaron was silent because of great faith I feel silent because of cluelessness when they called last night to ask they said we're going to try we're going to try tonight to provide just a little perspective we will not be able to answer one of the questions you've asked in the past three questions you've asked in the past three days but we'll try to approach all of them I think most of us look at this story from three parts the children the parents and our community and so we're going to try to address all three first the kids anyone who's heard me speak before knows I'm not very much I don't know knows I'm not very much I don't know cabala I don't tell any cabala I don't usually tell stories with mysticism in them it's not my style it's not something I really know and understand but tonight I'd like to tell you a story that's been told by V the great student of the ARA and he tells this story and it's been told over has told people this

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1. 0:01for the past 72 hours most homes sounded something like this husbands and wives and children…
2. 2:40been told over has told people this story and so I'm just going to tell the…
3. 5:47he's he struggling he's so poor financially it's such a struggle why he says well you…
4. 8:52answer and God decided he wanted seven souls and maybe purposely put into one family and…
5. 11:59bed the 10th and final child was walking past in their home they had a furnace…
6. 15:04to do this none I don't know where they get it from I don't know where…
7. 18:15the answer to why and so instead I have to answer the only question I know…
8. 21:27one don't burn a fire in your home on Shabbat you asked us not to burn…
9. 24:36smoke detector it means bring Beauty bring strength two people with the most beautiful amuna if…
10. 27:43come to ask it back you give it back and so we're going to accept this…

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