To Make Hashem Proud - Rabbi David Ashear (Emunah - Mesirat Nefesh) Living Emunah

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

without children. And he said he was able to see with his Ruach Hakodesh that this couple did something heroic that past Shabbat and he wanted his students to hear it from them firsthand. So, he knocked on the door. The couple was amazed. The great Baal Shem Tov is at our house. They couldn't believe it. "Come in, Rabbi." He came in with his students. And the Baal Shem Tov said, "Sorry to intrude on you. I want you to teach a lesson to my students. Please tell my students what you did this past Friday night on Shabbat." And the man was embarrassed. He said, "Rabbi, I don't know." "No, I'm telling you. Please, we need to hear the lesson." So, the man said, "We live a very simple lifestyle. We earn enough just to get by. Usually we try to save enough money during the week to have some to have some nice food on Shabbat. This Shabbat was the first time in over 20 years that we did not have food to eat. So, here we were. An older couple. Now, we have no children. We have no food. And we're starting Shabbat." And he said, "The one thing that we had was we were still happy because my wife and I accepted at our marriage, at our wedding day, that no matter what happens in life, we're never going to get down or

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1. 0:31without children. And he said he was able to see with his Ruach Hakodesh that this…
2. 1:02I want you to teach a lesson to my students. Please tell my students what you…
3. 1:3420 years that we did not have food to eat. So, here we were. An older…
4. 2:05depressed. We're going to accept that it's on Hashem. And baruch Hashem, for 20 years, over…
5. 2:35and I said, "Delicious. This tastes like my favorite fish. I love it. Wow, this is…
6. 3:07And then we did it again, and we had dessert. And we sang to Hashem again.…
7. 3:38difficult test that Hashem put you through, created such a joy in heaven. Hashem is so…
8. 4:10the Kuznitzer Maggid. And this is a simple story of a couple accepting that so on…

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