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Challenging Times; Finding Purpose

1.6K views · Oct 11, 2023

Charlie Harary

Discover Torah wisdom on empathy, faith, and responding to crises like the situation in Israel.

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there really no words to explain how we all feel right now if you're like me you first heard about what took place in AR and Yanti and you honestly didn't want to believe any of it and so as yff went on and you you tried to pretend as if the rumors were just rumors and it wasn't as bad as they say and it was definitely under control so I had to get harder and harder to believe that and then after youto you turn on your phone and you get that feeling your phone and you get that feeling again this mix of confusion and fear worry and anxiety what's going to be why why now questions hopes dreams prayers a mix feels like May Rowan again in a way and the question is what do we do how do we operate how do we move forward I want to share with you you a concept the Torah speaks a lot about the G the stranger the convert and speaks again and again and again and again about taking care of them and not oppressing them and looking out for them but there's one PK that I think is incredibly insightful the PK says the don't oppress the G you know what it feels like to be

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  1. 0:00there really no words to explain how we all feel right now if you're like me
  2. 1:36a PK says don't oppress the G you know why because you were G you know
  3. 3:38streets of the pain right you don't look at someone with the bird and go I'm
  4. 5:11now wherever you live and ask yourself how would you feel if for your husband or
  5. 7:15them for their dads there women men are people are are looking out the window and
  6. 8:47and they say can I talk to you I said sure they said you know I've
  7. 10:50this person that I'm in that's ridiculous because one of the blocks that we have to
  8. 12:22there's lining up to fight a war that they know their jobs but do we know
  9. 14:541% of discomfort that you know you need to do because it's right right and because
  10. 16:26forget that we do not win Wars with our strength we win Wars with our faith

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