Response to the Tragic Murder of R' Tzvi Kogan

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

let me first tell you what I'm not going to try to do I'm not going to try to explain why the bad things happen to good people I'm not here to explain a tragedy an unthinkable tragedy and Unthinkable loss yes we know that Hashem is perfect in all of his ways but I don't have to be hashem's defense attorney to explain that overly we are hurting we are in Shock we are grieving and um somehow we know that Hashem knows what he's doing but we know that with our faith not with our minds right now our minds are broken and our hearts are broken and as Rabbi wall mentioned earlier the idea that a shak's family would be sitting shiva during the week of kin the International Conference of theb emissaries is is literally Unthinkable this is the week once a year when all of theb from all over the world come back to Crown Heights to renew their dedication to their mission it's a time of incredible joy and the should be murdered this very week and that his family should be sitting shiva and that by extension the entire family of schl of thousands of schl all over the world and really the entire Claus all over the world to be sitting shiva is Unthinkable of course it's impossible not to think about the fact that there are echo of 16 years ago right now Kim of pin Sam test 2008 the kinis had

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2. 4:22make sense it doesn't make sense I was watching the funeral today so they brought a…
3. 8:46this terrorism is a word and it has a meaning we use the word so much…
4. 13:05quotes from letters that each of these rebes each of his predecessors wrote on different occasions…
5. 17:28we're all sitting here right now is a testimony of the fact that it is a…
6. 22:20approach think about this codes whose life was taken what was his purpose in this world…
7. 26:34started from our father of rinu and like of rinu he was ready to give his…
8. 30:50here yeah but we're going to survive no no no no the response has to be…
9. 35:16hear their question to be able to answer them and he said to them my whole…
10. 39:39Unthinkable but what I can learn from here what I can learn from here is that…

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