A Whisper in Our Ear | Rabbi Tzvi Sytner

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Hi, I'm Tzvi Sytner. I'm a rabbi at a Kiruv Shul here in Toronto, Canada. And one of the things that we get to do all the time is the zchus to be able to host these big Kiruv Shabbosim. And every time we have these big groups Friday night, for many people, it's their first time ever having a Shabbos experience like this. And so we introduce the idea of השגחה פרטית, divine intervention, we call it H.P., and we'll have every person around the Shabbos table share a story where they have seen Hashem in their life at some point. Well, one Friday night, after several hours of going all around the table, the last person his name was Zane. It was his first time ever at our Shabbos table, first time ever experiencing a real Shabbos like this, and I thought maybe we should give him a break, maybe let him pass, but when it came his turn, he said, I have a השגחה פרטית story. He says: I am a paramedic here, in the EMS in Toronto, and we got a call, not long ago, about a 22-year-old young man who was having trouble breathing. We responded to the call, we're in the ambulance, we arrive on scene, and by the time we got there, he was already in full cardiac arrest. His heart had stopped. We start working on him, we're giving him oxygen, we're giving him medication, everything we can to revive this young man. And the whole time we’re working on him, we load him into the ambulance, we’re rushing the ambulance all the way to the hospital. We get him into this dedicated room called the Resuscitation Room, and we're working on him in this room the whole time. Unfortunately, it had been 55 minutes

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1. 0:06Hi, I'm Tzvi Sytner. I'm a rabbi at a Kiruv Shul here in Toronto, Canada. And…
2. 0:36share a story where they have seen Hashem in their life at some point. Well, one…
3. 1:07who was having trouble breathing. We responded to the call, we're in the ambulance, we arrive…
4. 1:38and there was still no pulse, and the doctor's about to call it. But just before…
5. 2:09singing into her son's ear. We all just continued to work on him, not saying a…
6. 2:42So many of us find ourselves in situations where things are so difficult, just like this…
7. 3:13we have our Tatte in Himl, we have HaKadosh Baruch Hu, the Almighty, that at any…
8. 3:44HaKadosh Baruch Hu, I know You could instill this in me. Give me the strength, give…

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