Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevra of Shirat David learn a short but searing letter from Reb Usher Freund about what happens when pain starts to crumble. Writing to a woman trapped in an agunah reality, Reb Usher validates the anguish, and then reframes it: pain can be a cleansing wash (רחיצת שמלה) that scrubs away stains; the process still hurts, but accepted with love it stops being torture and begins to reveal Or Shivat HaYamim (the primordial “seven-day light). “Ketz sam la’choshech”— there is an end to darkness, and it arrives faster when we choose patience, prayer, and love over despair and victim-identity.Topics include:“Ketz la’choshech” is real: why every darkness has an end even when you can’t imagine it.The wash-metaphor: רחיצה מכאיבה—how cleansing pain works, and how קבלה באהבה changes the experience (not always the facts).Validation before mussar: being seen as the gateway to healing influence.Pain vs. suffering: pain can be involuntary; suffering is often a choice of stance.Birth pangs & geulah: why labor-level pain hints at a light that follows.Where בחירה sits: tending to my nefesh and avodah even when others misuse theirs.From “worshipping the wound” to Bnei Emunah—trading victimhood for partnership with Hashem.— For more Shiurim and Music from Rav Shlomo Katz, visit: https://ravshlomokatz.com Join Rav Shlomo Katz’s WhatsApp Community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KHKOhhPaeHx5Kb74WL9L9a?mode=ems_copy_t

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