For many people, the conflict between faith and experience is difficult and often devastating to live through.  Psalm 77 is a very odd text: the first part is a lament by a person who wonders whether God has forgotten how to show mercy.  And then the second part recounts God's salvation of Israel with great passion in the Exodus. What's the relationship between the two parts of the psalm? Has the psalmist's crisis been resolved, or does the tension remain—mirroring our own struggles with faith? Recorded at Hadar's Rabbinic Yeshiva Intensive 2025. 

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