R' Asher Resnick: Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People (Losing My Daughter)
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
4.9 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Rabbi Asher Resnick's journey through profound personal loss has been a significant part of his life and teachings, especially after the tragic loss of his daughter. This devastating event has deeply influenced his perspective and teachings, emphasizing the importance of faith, resilience, and understanding in the face of unbearable pain.
Rabbi Resnick openly shares his experiences of grief and loss, not only as a process of personal healing but also as a means to help others navigating similar paths of sorrow.
Rabbi Asher Resnick serves as a teacher and spiritual mentor at Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem.
In this talk, we also mention the afterlife, souls and how to stay connected to loved ones who are in the next world.
You can buy his book here: https://jewishclarity.com/product/book-pain-is-a-reality-suffering-is-a-choice/
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| 0:00.0 | I love my kids I've my kids I don't think of my other kids every single day |
| 0:07.0 | But my but my daughter passed away I think every single day multiple times |
| 0:11.1 | So the world to come is very real to me. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Inspiration for the Nation and some of the most difficult |
| 0:19.6 | periods in people's lives are the challenges that come up to them that you can never |
| 0:25.1 | prepare for. If you're watching or listening to this and your parent you are |
| 0:30.4 | constantly worried about your children. I know my parents are constantly worried about your children. |
| 0:32.8 | I know my parents are constantly worried about me |
| 0:34.4 | and I know I'm constantly worried about my kids. |
| 0:36.6 | You always want the best for them. |
| 0:37.8 | You want them to live a happy life and to thrive. |
| 0:41.6 | And Rabbi Usher Resnick and his wife's life came to halt when they found out their daughter had cancer. |
| 0:48.0 | And with a lot of Davening, a lot of treatment, she beat it, but they were not out of the woods, and unfortunately, |
| 0:58.0 | years later, she passed away, and we had a very, very open conversation about his experience. |
| 1:06.0 | He told me no questions were off the table. |
| 1:08.4 | And we talk about the struggle, the challenge, |
| 1:11.2 | and how someone moves on with their life after one of their children |
| 1:16.4 | passed away tragically and we also talk about the afterlife what's the Jewish perspective I'm in here's a world famous ace rabbi who gets a lot of questions from a lot of people |
| 1:29.0 | Curious about the faith |
| 1:30.0 | So I asked him what's his perspective on the afterlife and and what could someone do for a |
| 1:37.1 | loved one who moved on and it's a very special episode. This episode is in memory of Kana Bas Mosha this week. Thank you and her Nisham Shavalaia. |
| 1:48.8 | This episode is also in memory of Shim and David Pianakushianna, as well as Miram Sarbus, |
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