Orthodox Rabbi Gives Talk to University Students in Jerusalem Yeshiva | God is Hiding from Us, WHY?

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

If I want to translate the words that I just read to you, seek God. When he is found, you hear the words seek God when he is found. Who call to him when he's close. Do you hear the words? It's very trouble because you usually call for something when it's not around. Isn't that right? All right. In other words, you ever have I'm trying to think like how many of you live in a house with two stories. Do you live in a house with two stories. Do you have an upstairs? So, what happens when you're like, you ever have this where like where are the scissors? Where are the scissors? We're constantly buying scissors, right? No one can ever find the scissors, right? You have this. So, you're upstairs and you're yelling, "Does anyone know?" Now, if the person is standing right next to you, you just speak to them like a bench. If you would yell, "Where are what is wrong with him?" And you're having a temper tantrum over. So, so call out to Hashem when he's distant. You would think, "God, where are you?" You understand? You see like I just looking at this picture of the hotel on the wall and when I go there like I'm always struck by the

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