Part 86: We Work for Hashem, He Doesn’t Work for Us

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Parsha Perspectives - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

this yeah Rabbi Mike Stern who unfortunately is in a real crisis and is in need of a of a major andas Bas Ali and lastly we have in mind as well all of the victims from Pittsburgh and uh and those who were injured and their families who should have strength and and courage okay so um if there's ever a week that we needed an it's this week it's this week um I appr everyone's flexibility moving it to appr everyone's flexibility moving it to today M next week we'll be back on schedule and back on track but obviously it was a very very difficult week for cl for the Jewish people globally with what happened in Pittsburgh for our community in particular the loss of a young mother a young woman a young teacher in our community and outstanding woman and um I I think we already had this week for those who listen to the to the funeral on Sunday Rabbi G spoke about his wife it's a position nobody should ever ever ever be in to speak about the young ever be in to speak about the young mother of their children to give a hit for woman you're married to for for such a short time and who live such a short time and he gave a disclaimer before he spoke about her and he said it as a disclaimer and with that he gave a gift to us because it's something that we can't say we could say but we wouldn't have the credibility that he has to say it and say it in that moment but he got up and he just made it very clear he said I want to tell everyone that we work for God God doesn't work for us so in that moment that's what he said

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1. 0:31this yeah Rabbi Mike Stern who unfortunately is in a real crisis and is in need…
2. 4:05things happening to good people to lose faith in God so I said something we've discussed…
3. 8:13history is history I'm up to today I got enough challenges today I got enough to…
4. 12:21can't put the check it's going to bother me the whole day people put a check…
5. 16:26each of these bras I forgot I forgot we talked about last week or two weeks…
6. 20:41faith but now I had a sh I had a half sick now I took a…
7. 25:00anticip ating the waves and positioning yourself you could either crash by a wave and drown…
8. 29:15me your file overconfidence arrogance in it's the antithesis because at its core is humility it's…
9. 33:22reality so you'll say well that works for our own issues and our own prayers how…
10. 37:28the mechanism through which the is working to the way I understand it is that's why…

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