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Finding Light Amidst the Darkness with Rabbi Michael Stern

1.5K views · Jul 7, 2015

Chazaq Organization

Rabbi Michael Stern shares inspiring lessons from the life of his daughter Shoshana Stern, a spiritual role model.

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[Music] hey hello my name is Michael Stern I'll just give you a quick bio because we have a lot of material to cover in a very short period of time bio is Long Island Five Towns Country Club Christmas trees Santa Claus basketball jock University of Maryland Management Consulting and I started my Jewish journey in 29 and I started my Jewish journey in 29 and I went to ASA Tor for seven years and I started ASA to helped to start aor Philadelphia in balakin with L Marian then I worked for Rabbi Mel tski and Pinas a over here had to fit you in there for five years and then uh I was the uh first uh Orthodox kiru Rabbi for a Jewish Community Center in the country in Boer Ron and now I'm a aab by in Yardley Pennsylvania which is about an hour 20 minutes away from here that's where I'm minutes away from here that's where I'm coming from now one caveat before we start there a lot of material and because of the nature of the subject there's a lot of stream of Consciousness in here so it may not be as neatly packaged as your normal Shear where everything is very clear along the way but it comes all from my heart so on April 14th in 2013 my wife and I noticed that our 2013 my wife and I noticed that our daughter Shi was not back at home and it was very late and it was uncharacteristically it was uncharacteristic of her and my wife was was also uncharacteristically concerned our girls are very independent they're responsible they're smart their feet on the ground so if she wasn't home on time we started being concerned and Denise was reading herself to go out he said maybe check the dog park I don't know maybe God forbid some Mash her pull

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  1. 0:03[Music] hey hello my name is Michael Stern I'll just give you a quick bio because…
  2. 4:08lost lost and Life as we had known it was gone forever so tonight I'd like…
  3. 8:51light so there we were we were sitting shiva and everybody was comforting us that we…
  4. 13:29seek the normal of times of Messiah the only one of the only ways unfortunately and…
  5. 18:09for the Jewish people to never live a life the same as it was before the…
  6. 22:47now God forbid a spouse is abusing another spouse you undergrow a surgery person gets divorced…
  7. 27:07greatness she was unbelievable person but it was a greatness that I couldn't really see in…
  8. 31:55swing Shi back in the gamor Anda y teaches us the root cause of the current…
  9. 36:34yourself of who you are you're not thinking about my seat it's your pleasure I coined…
  10. 41:10guy whoever came across our house you get caught there and Shi and Dori my other…

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