A Community's Sincere Response to Suffering, Rav Asher Weiss @ Congregation Beth Abraham Bergenfield

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

dear friends i've been here many times in the past many times and usually for happy vacations i'm happy to be back again but we've come together tonight i'm called to discuss to try to understand suffering tragedy maybe more accurately said to try to understand what is our duty when we experience tragedy and suffering ultimately we don't understand that published wave the greatest individual who ever walked the face of this planet was beyond down no it should have been it is clear in babyloni and you will show me in the russian specifically in the land greater than the other seduction than all the other giants of our tradition and nevertheless the immortal brokenness of zion said someone motioned up and who stands or foreign after tragedy strikes cloudy soil and increased with the polish vocal indiana [Music] the gorilla to understand the phenomenon of bad things happening absolutely they experience pain suffering and there's a metroid [Music] we understand so i think our new thing would be to understand how are we doing on my way here and just stopped in for a short while to visit the wonderful horror family and for me it was a very moving experience [Music] to see the wonderful people coping with such a tragic war [Music] at some stage most of us cope with tragedy so that i in my family suffering and tragedy part of the human experience is much more so we have to chose people but maybe through more trials and tribulations and pain and suffering than any other so this is part of the jewish shakespearean and who do we look up to for guidance we have the keyword videos arguably the greatest time for one of the greatest

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6. 23:06you it is not about trying to understand it is about learning to accept what we…
7. 26:37that an oval needs to be true like suffering of a community tragedy and sorrow we…
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