Rabbi Chanan Gordon Instruction4Living Chayei Sarah

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good evening if you're watching this short video and you're a normal healthy average human being the chances are you've had setbacks in your life the chance saw you've had a disappointment and you felt pain in your life how do we deal with the setbacks how do we deal when life throws us the inexplicable curveball the Torah portion of highest curveball the Torah portion of highest Sarah is one of the most profound teachable moments the first Jew Abraham was faced with the situation which very few people could could handle and cement he was about to bury his life partner Sarah Sarah amania he just come back from the traumatic ordeal of potentially traumatic ordeal of potentially slaughtering his own son and at that point of his life Abraham did not own one inch of land if anyone had an excuse to be down in the dumps and to feel sorry for himself at that point in time what would have been Abraham but what does Kaddish barks would teach us what as the how much to say after the demise of his wife and the incident in the trauma of Isaac the Torah says he got up

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1. 0:00good evening if you're watching this short video and you're a normal healthy average human being…
2. 0:31curveball the Torah portion of highest Sarah is one of the most profound teachable moments the…
3. 1:01traumatic ordeal of potentially slaughtering his own son and at that point of his life Abraham…
4. 1:32trauma of Isaac the Torah says he got up from his grief and immediately it was…
5. 2:03you some context ampuls what if I were to tell you there was a kid who…
6. 2:33was a cartoonist who was so poor that the only place that he could find a…
7. 3:03tell you that that Mouse today we know as Mickey Mouse and that cartoonist is Walt…
8. 3:33fact that the importance of looking to the future that the past does not equal the…
9. 4:05going to be better or better the portion of highest art teaches us that we get…

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