Parshas Lech Lecha: Despair - How to Overcome Despondency

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

cover for me is this is the first time I've actually been in the tag High School building and my wife's uncle Rabbi Whitman was the founder of this Isa and I'm very pleased to uh acknowledge the presence of Tanta toi so uh it's a double cover to be here this evening and we hope the tonight should be should be for do I need this no I don't okay so I'm going to do something a little bit differently um I'm not going to give a speech I'm not going to uh tell you stories we're going to do something a little bit more substantial than that I would like to give somewhat of a sheer I gave you the source materials and hopefully bring out something uh very fundamental something very inspirational that we could all take with us not only on this week's paraa not only for the rest of the year a very important idea that we should really hang on to and hold on to for the rest of our lives there's you have all the sources on the sheets in front of you the tells us there was an old lady who came before and she came with a she came came with a complaint she said the following she said ra Gala the exilarch the exilar was a political rabic position in B she claimed that the Suka that all the rabbis were sitting in was stolen and it was stolen from none other than her she claimed she was the rightful owner of the beams of the plank of the wooden poles of this Suka she said they're sitting in my Suka she cried she screamed

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1. 0:34cover for me is this is the first time I've actually been in the tag High…
2. 4:50cataclysmic happens there's a lot of fervor Messianic fervor and people were saying mhia is coming…
3. 9:51if anyone just bought a house and didn't live in it go home if anyone just…
4. 14:33you know you guys you go to the east you guys you go to the west…
5. 18:49and it's so impossible and it's just not happening and then the result is throw in…
6. 23:45rest says big talker I'll marry your daughter maybe the of me and the of you…
7. 28:29impossible why would the ream create CLA Isel based on impossibility says was demonstrating that CL…
8. 32:59so Nish but when you realize when you realize elazar there's someone standing right by you…
9. 38:00you could work and they were saved at the last moment Yos is not part of…
10. 42:49not you're cursed we're blessed this ain't going to go we can't make a if you…

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