The Arizal’s Answer: Why Unexplained Tragedies Happen

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

[Music] good evening ladies and gentlemen broadcasting tonight live from the holy city of lakewood new jersey i'm here in my in the basement of my wonderful talmud gal broadcasting live hashem should bless him and his family and ladies and gentlemen we're going to start with a blessing tonight and i'm hoping that hashem bore allah gives us the right words because i'm hoping that what we're going to hit on tonight is not only to do justice to this week's parashah but also the great wake-up call and that is around the corner and little by little we're coming to the end of off and we need start to prepare and to understand the avodah kid our kingdom let's start with a blessing [Music] amen now i'm going to be honest with you i was going to go and just grab a concept from this week's parashah try to build it out run with it come home with a nice message leave off the month of on a high note a story or two and call it a night but two days ago i got a phone call and it was a phone call that disturbed and hurt me a family that i know well here in lakewood they called me crying they said rabbi please [Music] we don't know what happened our little boy our little son 13 month year old boy he woke up this morning he wasn't feeling well he broke out into a fever after a few hours that the fever did not break suddenly he started to gasp he couldn't breathe they called hatsala a boy that's almost a year and a half old they called me up screaming please pray

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