How ALS Changed Our Lives | Rabbi Yitzi & Dina Hurwitz

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bothers. So, that's really what I focused on the last couple years is to fight finding that balance for myself because I did I lost the balance. Like there was too much hard, not enough beautiful, not enough wonderful. And um throughout life, I think that's how we get through the hard is that we have a balance of of the good and the easy and there just was no balance. So, I had to really retreat into myself and find what are the things that really God wants for me. really God wants for me. Like not what I think other people expect from me, not what I think somebody meant when they said something. Just really like pull into yourself and say, "Am I doing this for myself or am I doing this for other people?" And if it's for other people, aside from Yitzy and the kids, right now I can't do Welcome back to the most special episode of Inspiration for the Nation I've ever shot. When I started podcasting, I always had this dream to talk to people that have been going through something that have been going through something in their life, a big challenge. Little did I know that we would be speaking to someone who literally physically cannot talk. He can only communicate through his eyes. I I flew to LA, I flew to California to sit down with Dina Horowitz to talk about her experience with her husband contracting ALS for the past 10 years and also I got to have a conversation with Yitzy. I asked him a bunch of questions and he answered all of them with his eyes with the use of technology. We've edited

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1. 0:00bothers. So, that's really what I focused on the last couple years is to fight finding…
2. 6:08Not being who I think other people need me to be and um really retreating into…
3. 11:45a process. Um but Yitzy was like very strong, not the type to get sick often.…
4. 17:23uh his name is Simcha Berel David alav ha-shalom ben Avraham Moshe. And few people in…
5. 23:32support group is to is to is to be able to feel one another and feel…
6. 30:45And I think maybe some of that runs in our DNA and we could be strong…
7. 36:25during Corona it just was too heavy for me and to be okay not feel guilty…
8. 42:03Okay, those were Yitzy's answers, and uh you're going to help us explain it. So, the…
9. 48:48notwithstanding. When we do that, Hashem splits seas for us. For the past 3 years, I…
10. 55:29YITZY HURWITZ, Yitzy we love you. The first time I sing it. Shine a little light.…

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