why are things difficult becoming observant - Rabbi Alon Anava

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[Music] I wanted to talk first about something that a lot of people ask me and I feel that a lot of people don't have a good answer for that and it pushes them back from moving forward pushes them back from moving forward inem and the question that I get over and over and over from many different types of people from all scopes of the world they're telling me listen 5 years ago 10 years ago a month ago 20 years ago I started becoming B I became closer to God and now I'm doing more mitv and I learn more Tor and I do what theem tells me to do before I became observant everything was was good now that I'm observant everything is bad nothing works no problems with my schom my kids don't listen to me everything doesn't go good how do you explain that what before I was doing sins and I was living my life how I wanted everything was good no problems and now that I do what Hashem tells me and all that I get is slaps to my face and and a lot of people they they face and and a lot of people they they fall into despair because they say Okay I I try to do what Hashem wants me to do it didn't work out so I'm going back to normal somebody not to not too long ago told me I sat with with that person and he says oh I tried to be religious it didn't work for me so I I left it told what do you mean it didn't work for you what do you think it's a you're trying out shoes or a car what do you mean it didn't work for you there reality is that most people

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