Crying Out, Holding On: Discovering a Spark of Emunah in the Darkness

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

Okay, shalom to all. Thank you for joining us as we jump back into our series on uh on this very challenging day. In these very challenging times, we first hope that everybody is okay and safe and that everybody's family is well and Hashem should protect Cla in the merit of our learning. Sometimes there's like a natural tendency when there are moments like these to interrupt the schedule and to say let's cancel this year and you know there's so many other things going on and I I was reminding myself and I and I want to remind us that on the contrary um you know if now is not the time for more learning if now is not the time for more getting together for more strengthening ourselves and each other with the words of the and words of Amuna when of so in the merit of our learning, we should hear good news and we believe that what we're experiencing now is part of a much broader story that really already began um about 3 years ago now. And with the 2020 vision of a retrospect, looking back, we can see how Hashem has a plan here that's well beyond anything that any of us can imagine. Uh on October 8th, 2023, I don't think anybody could have imagined the destruction of in the north, Kamas in the south, the fall of Syria, and a direct attack on Iran. These things are

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1. 0:01Okay, shalom to all. Thank you for joining us as we jump back into our series…
2. 4:41what we're trying to domaya as we continue our series in so as always let me…
3. 9:21in these very very difficult moments in our history and some of the most momentic and…
4. 14:01somewhere. There's a clarity that none of us are privy to, that we're not supposed to…
5. 18:45It's specifically in the dark moments is running this show is the captain of the ship…
6. 23:27inside of us. It's our natural status quo as a people. This is who we are.…
7. 28:05that we can carry on our lives as normal in Tel Aviv. What it's really all…
8. 32:40We'll look back and see this and and and then they're going to be able to…
9. 37:14if that's the attitude that I have. So then of course every everyone's going to hate…
10. 41:56realities. Right now, Hashem is is in that place. He sees the big picture and we…

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