#626: Amida: Modim (Part 22)

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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.

So we mentioned last night the opinion of the daily miracle means not individually collectively the miracle that even though in every generation they want to destroy us on the in the plural we are still here to tell the story our story is still being written the daily the daily miracle that is every single day as we said we don't have to wait for the seder for every day when we means to be a believing and faithful Jew is to know that we are the a we are not subject to nature. We are supernatural and that everything is in fact everything is from Hashem. So the second means Hashem we're grateful. There is no such thing as nature and there's nothing natural. We're grateful for the daily miracle. You woke up this morning, we have our faculties. You woke up this morning and all the parts are working. You woke up this morning, you can see and hear and walk. Your knees and your hips and your elbows, they're working. You could eat and eliminate. What a miracle. But I want to share with you the words of of Rav Mosha Yikamo, one of the kadoshim who was brutally murdered in the Harnov massacre several years ago. tremendous and sadik and when referring to this to this Ramban qualified it very differently than the way that we're used to thinking about it and these are his words he says there's a well-known statement of the Ramban at the end of this week's para that many

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1. 0:30So we mentioned last night the opinion of the daily miracle means not individually collectively the…
2. 1:30means to be a believing and faithful Jew is to know that we are the a…
3. 2:00and your hips and your elbows, they're working. You could eat and eliminate. What a miracle.…
4. 2:30people misunderstand the Ramban says the great open miracles of mitim are meant to teach us…
5. 3:00reality. The Pik says, "Hashem created a world and he put in motion some immutable laws…
6. 4:03the astronomical geographical mathematical principles. Theore is that even within the context of the natural structure…
7. 4:34sending us messages that is so touristy qualifies this not as rejecting nature because you can't…
8. 5:05And even what seems to be within nature or natural is not a function of statistics…
9. 5:36Hashem is the one behind nature but it's a miracle as an extension of his of…
10. 6:09as a result and a consequence even though it seems that what then happened is natural…

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