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Living with Emunah (Part 353)

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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She'll share the episode she thinks will resonate. So although I'm not a Bucky, I'm familiar with You Are Where You're Meant to Be. Last week, my son and I went to Dallas for a Rangers game. We're trying to attend games in all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums, and the only remaining team playing a home game on Junth was the Texas Rangers in Dallas. So, we flew from New York to catch a game. Thursday morning, I ordered a lift to go to the 6:40 a.m. Shakra minion. The driver was driving a Ford F-150, my first time in one. I'm going to guess that's a truck, and listening to a sermon. I was wearing a kipa and balancing and balanced asking him to shut off the radio with a potential. So although the person delivering the sermon initially was talking about David and overcoming challenges, I tried hard to tune him out. The bits and pieces I heard the speech was about the importance of faith and even more so in the face of challenges and adversity. He then went on to quote scripture. So I really tried hard to tune him out until he said very clearly, quote, "You are where you're meant to be." So there I was in the backseat of a Ford F-150 sweating in the Dallas heat trying

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