Nazis, Cucumbers and the World of Good- Bahalosicha -The Parshah On Fire

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

The is requiring us to thank Hashem for the bad in our lives, the tragedies, the hardships that befall us with the same degree of affection and passion as you would thank Hashem for the good. Now, here's the obvious question. How is anyone other than someone living in a psych word able to properly pull this off? How is it expected of a woman who just had a miscarriage to look up to heaven and thank Hashem? How is it expected of a man who just broke his collar bone to thank Hashem the same way he would thank Hashem the night he married off his last child? Which part married off his last child? Which part of our brain contains this ability? Which mental exercises could possibly train us to perform such herculean emotional feats? Besides, weren't we told since we were young that we thank Hashem for the good and we cry to him about the bad? Why are we thanking Hashem for the bad? Isn't bad bad bad? So I believe paras contains the answer. The Jews after wandering the desert for a while turned to Mosher Rabenu and a while turned to Mosher Rabenu and said, "Listen, we are just absolutely starving for some cucumbers and some leaks and some garlic. We're just starving for them." So much so that not having them is making us absolutely reconsider our decision to following you in the desert. Egypt did us better. That's what they told Moshe. So intensely desiring these foods, the Jews in the desert began talking nostalgically of their lives back in Egypt. Going so far that they actually wished they were back in Egypt, which if you think about it for a minute is absolutely insane. She was one of the

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1. 0:32The is requiring us to thank Hashem for the bad in our lives, the tragedies, the…
2. 2:04absolutely insane. She was one of the darkest moments in our entire history, which contains a…
3. 4:10Bad is merely goodness in a different form. It's goodness that we don't necessarily understand. Like…
4. 5:43each and every one of us infinitely more than we love our own children. The perfection…
5. 7:46yet we often find ourselves harping on the three things in our lives that we that…
6. 9:17example. Little Mosha finds himself sitting on Parro's lap under the suspicion of him turning into…
7. 11:22have autism now she won't. Every single thing that happens to us without exception is for…
8. 12:55days away, scrambling desperately to save themselves, the Jews of the city reached out to all…
9. 14:59for us. We can only guess. David was turning to Hashem and saying that if what…
10. 16:34The mantra of Gamu Lativa has been our one and only consolation. We clutch close to…

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