Loss, delay, disappointment—and what comes NEXT

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

picture the worst case scenario and say, "Can I live with it?" And I said, "Well, what happens if it keeps getting delayed, gets canceled altogether, gets so late, I can't get on it because I won't make it back for Shabas? I could stay at my in-laws. I could stay at my daughter and say, "We'll figure it out." We think that our emotion is automatic. It's automatic. I'm anxious. I'm worried. I'm angry. I'm nervous. I'm jealous. I We think it's automatic. How I feel is automatic. But when we realize there's a pause, there's a pregnant pause between what's happening and how we react. Are you just a thermometer that reports how you feel or are you a that reports how you feel or are you a thermostat that regulates and changes the temperature of how you feel? We did lose our community suffered a tremendous loss. Joe Blumenthal, our dear friend, way too early, way too young, a very, very special person, a dear friend of mine, somebody with the biggest heart, somebody who was a beloved friend, somebody who was loved by all. And with the July 4th weekend and the cemetery closed Friday and Sunday, there was a urgency to get up there and to have the Levia and the burial on Thursday and I was to go with the family and I do consider it as close. I had the merit to

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3. 1:32Lauderdale airport because I was supposed to come home that night. So I figured holiday weekend,…
4. 2:33that from the regular road. So now I was outside those cones on the regular road…
5. 3:34and live with it. And then the weather was insane last week for those who tried…
6. 4:34this story. I just kept looking at the back of my phone. Embrace your place. you…
7. 5:04can't get on it because I won't make it back for Shabas? I could stay at…
8. 6:05to it there's a pause. There's a moment. We think that our emotion is automatic. It's…
9. 7:06nature weather and delays. What happens can be the valet are not accepting cars. What happens…
10. 8:07that regulates and changes the temperature of how you feel? When I gave it to the…

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