Eliminating Suffering from your Life - Rabbi Daniel Travis

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

When I was younger in my teenage years, I had this aspiration to be in the Olympics. I used to run maybe close to 100 miles a week. I was training for the 400-meter hurdles, and I wanted to be in the Olympics, perhaps even to represent Israel in the Olympics. And most of my friends were from a different uh culture, African-American culture, and they had a certain expression, which at the time I didn't appreciate it. But as I worked more on this topic of thanking Hashem for things which seem bad, I realized a tremendous truth in what they have to say. You know, when something is really good, they would say, "That's bad, man. That's really bad." And then I realized how right they are. Because a lot of things in our life which seem bad, they're really very There's a lot of good hidden in them. And actually, a lot of people didn't appreciate this story until my uh my machutenister, my um my daughter's uh mother-in-law, who's from England, she said, "Yes, in England, they all say that's wicked. That's wicked, you know." I like my one better, that's bad. But it's really what I speak about tonight, because I feel, especially today, there's so many people are suffering, and so many people are going through difficult experiences. And by the way, I'm not coming to tell that there's no such thing as difficult experiences. There are very difficult experiences, and as I write here on the cards that my mother gave out, and whoever didn't get one, they're available here, that while painful experiences are inevitable, our emotional response to them is in our hands. And this is what I'm coming to speak about tonight. Not

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