A shiur by Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer on the importance of life and awareness.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
Someone from our Shul sadly had a heart attack and was rushed to the ICU. I ran to the ICU to visit this person and the ICU is not an easy place to be in. It’s difficult. There are people hooked up to tubes and machines and lots of different sounds and beeping. But I particularly was transfixed by the monitor. I saw the cardiac rhythm. I saw the ups and downs and ups and downs. I was getting a little dizzy from the movement, the ups and downs and ups and downs, when suddenly, those ups and downs turned into a flat line and I said, Ah. I was relieved. How beautiful, how serene, how tranquil, how peaceful. When all of a sudden, there was a whole commotion and a tumult, and the doctors and nurses are running and you hear: Code blue! Code blue! And shortly after that, I learned that as long as you have the movements, ups and downs, it meant the person was alive. The heart was beating. And the flat line represented the fact that the person was... no heart. Could have been dead. And that's us. You see, as long as we're alive, we have the ups and downs, we have the highs and lows. It's not easy.
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- 0:07Someone from our Shul sadly had a heart attack and was rushed to the ICU. I…
- 0:38Ah. I was relieved. How beautiful, how serene, how tranquil, how peaceful. When all of a…
- 1:08Because an animal, in the holy tongue, is called Beheima. Says the Maharal: בהמה is a…
- 1:38But we have the Alef on top of the Dam. The Alef is Elokus. We have…
- 2:10Says the Or Yesharim, ומכה נפש בהמה The person that strikes down that Nefesh Beheima inside,…
- 2:40but that is a sign of life. If you don't have that low and everything stops,…
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