Living With Emunah (Part 179): Making Time for God

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

and I were in an elevator and the elevator got stuck. It simply stopped. One of Yocheved's worst nightmares before we reached the desired floor. Pressed the alarm in the elevator and then no one got back to us. So we called the place that we were in and they said, "Yeah, we know you're stuck. We're working on getting you out." And so in that minute or in those moments was more than a minute unfortunately where one can panic you could alternatively take those deep breaths and realize this is the plan. This is where we're meant to be. When do we get to spend time alone? When are we locked in a secluded area without children and without congregants and without responsibilities and without obligations? So you could either be miserable and panic or you could lean in and take advantage and say fantastic, some alone time. What do you want to talk about? Let's enjoy each other's company. And that's what we tried to do by flexing the emunah muscle and by remembering this is where Hashem wants us. This is where we're meant to be. This is what's meant to be happening and therefore to be able to enjoy each and every moment, all an extension of our efforts in our devekus sheer and our emunah sheer in learning to live with emunah together. Okay, we are learning the safer Be'er Mayim Chaim of Rebbe Mordechai of Radomsk, his fantastic and beautiful insights into how we can acquire darchei kinyan ha'devekus, how we can acquire this character trait of clinging to God, of gluing, of attaching ourselves to him, of feeling his presence in our life by working on emunah first of all, by thinking about his existence, the origins of the universe, his sovereignty, his providence, his dominion in this world. Number two is

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