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Living With Emunah (Part 189): In Good Times and in Bad

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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to connect, to glue, to attach ourselves to him, and therefore to relieve ourselves of any of that anxiety or worry, to recognize that all that happens is for a reason, and that everything's going to be okay. I know none of you slept in the last week. You were all waiting to find out, did my daughter get her negative corona test? She was able to get back on the plane to Israel. And the answer is, drum roll, please, yes, she did. She said what he told her, everything's for a reason. Hashem will come through whether you make this flight or the next one. It will happen the way it was meant to and baruch Hashem, it happened the way she wanted it, not just the way he wanted. They coincided, which always is lovely when that happens. So, as people were coming to the airport and already boarding the plane, though it was getting late and was stressful, that negative test the lab result finally came back. She was able to get on the plane and baruch Hashem, thank God, she's back in her natural habitat, back in Israel learning, studying, and growing. And so grateful to Hashem for that and for so much more. We have been learning about Dveikus Etzem, the notion of clinging to Hashem in good times and in bad, being

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  1. 1:32to connect, to glue, to attach ourselves to him, and therefore to relieve ourselves of any…
  2. 3:35accomplish, something to achieve, there's something to do. We are a unique expression of God in…
  3. 6:08cling and connect to him. El Lios Me'avdei Hashem Yisbarach Ne'emanim, to be among those who…
  4. 8:09elbowing? Is everybody still edging to get in there? Is everyone still trying to attach themselves?…
  5. 10:40show up and do you live it even when you don't feel it? K'shem Yisbarach mistater…
  6. 12:41mission. And that's what I have to come back to. That's what we have to remind…
  7. 15:16connected. It makes me feel purpose. It makes me feel elevated. But then there going to…
  8. 17:17hard time, you quickly learn who your real friends are. When you're going through a great…
  9. 19:51that's not a real connection. The real connection, the truest connection, was loyal connection is even…
  10. 21:51argashah shel hanefesh. To get to a more intrinsic, to get to a more connected, to…

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