Living With Emunah (Part 323) - Wrestle and Argue with Hashem

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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.

Thank you. You should all have heard her amazing shiur last night and follow her amazing articles on Times of Israel, including the one she wrote this week. Shayna, it's great to see you. Thank you for coming. We are going to return to what we were learning last week. Um, but first, uh, I want to share with you a few letters and emails. I hope they'll continue to come in. I don't get to them all, uh, but every one of them I read and every one of them touches me very deeply and inspires me. So, if you have that hugger, that wink from Hashem, if you have that Avraham moment in this week's parsha, where you were protesting Hashem, negotiating with Hashem, debating with Hashem, I've shared this often and I'll share it again because I think people, including me, need to hear it. In this week's parsha, Avraham makes a precedent that you're allowed to wrestle with Hashem. Hashem debates, should I tell Avraham what I'm about to do in Sdom? And we talked about it in the parsha shiur, why does Hashem hesitate? What is he debating, whether he should tell Avraham. Hashem is perfect and omnipotent. He needs to have an internal dialogue. He's having this internal He's doing a shtikel IFS on himself. Should I tell him? Should I not tell him? This

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1. 1:00Thank you. You should all have heard her amazing shiur last night and follow her amazing…
2. 5:03soldiers, hostages. It breaks breaks our heart. A new video came out of one of the…
3. 9:07said, Hashem didn't mean, I did everything I was meant to do. Nothing wrong on our…
4. 13:13elected official, using that moment not to blame, not to be bitter, using that moment to…
5. 17:45another interpretation. The actual lot of stock of what he was going to transmit to his…
6. 22:07A person who says, "Hashem is by my side. He's got a hand on my shoulder.…
7. 26:14intertwined with you. Our lives to be intertwined. From when you wake up in the morning…
8. 31:20anything I've tried to drive home to myself, I have to tell you, living with emunah,…
9. 35:27well. Hashem, thank you for helping that have gone well. Hashem, I need you. Hashem, why…
10. 39:30climbing higher and higher in that feeling, in that equanimity, in that hishtavus, in that unphased…

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