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  esther -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  Such an emotional experience for me. I am grateful.

  The story of Yehuda and Yosef is so profound -- the DNA running through our existence. the story of our lives to unveil in our own lives.

  Today Hashem made you unveil something for me, from my youth. Something that was a great hardship for me, and what was revealed now was that the daily pain, the soul pain, so hard to get rid of it, I asked G-d many times to help me change the view, but after half a century at this class, something very beautiful was uncovered. It was an eye-opener.

  Each time we must take the opportunity to listen with all our faculties, not only with our ears but with all our senses. And our visible body and spiritual body. And finally, someday we will experience the inner truth. At a split of the moment, it will open up. You must try and work and pray, and then suddenly we will experience the revelation.

  Amazing. Thank you. Thank G-d. What you do does not seem like work, but it is so much work. It comes from your natural self, from the real you. It is not only your learning, it is your core. Thank you for all you share with us. 

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sara Metzger -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  Someone asked...

  Can you explain this to me practically? I have challenges with my children, with my marriage, with so much. Can you explain this to me practically?

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Brenda Carroll -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  Thank you

  Thank you Rabbi.  Very much.

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sara Metzger -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  Someone asked...

  So you find G-dliness in tragedy by knowing that my perception that it is dark is also G-d? Both are true at the same time? The dark and the light that we can’t see?

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sara Metzger -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  Someone asked...

  Everything you shared really resonates. I’ve definitely experienced this to be true in my everyday life. But how to reconcile these ideas and avoid a negative narrative when faced with real pain you witness around you. Some things are beyond perception like a child in an oncology ward or you when you see the faithful suffer mind numbing tragedies. How to understand the ideas “mindset creates reality” in this context?

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sara Metzger -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  Someone asked...

  Ambassador for infinity... day to day life. I ask myself what can that look like?

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sarah Goldberg -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  The Sfas Emes reminds us to maintain alignment with our true purpose.  Which also means to distance ourselves from misalignment. 

  All this based on the medresh about guarantors in general and Yehuda in particular. 

  But notice and recall some of the background before Yehuda gave himself as a guarantor to Yakov and then stepped up to fulfill that in Vayigash.

  Was Yosef's immaturity, self beautification, tale bearing, haughtiness with disclosing his dreams "proper alignment"? Was Yakov's favoritism of Yosef "proper alignment". Were the brother's plot to kill, actual throwing him into the pit, deception of Yakov, etc., "proper alignment"? 

  At the time all these occurred no one would say that they were obvious  "proper alignments".

  But....even those things that would have adjudged at the time  to be "IMproper alignments" at the time  later turned out to have hidden secret aligning and life purposes.

   May we all have prospective glasses to see that present seemingly negative nonaligning events will later turn out to positive aligning matters. 

    It seems that there is not much merit to call obvious good, good. There is much more merit to see the hidden secret inner good that comes garbed as seemingly bad at the time and not just much later on when the hidden secret good becomes revealed.  

    The whole Yosef story was, perhaps, designed to save the fledgling jewish nation from starvation, and to later fulfill the promise Hashem made to Avraham that his descendents would eventually be slaves and then be redeemed together with the great wealth Yosef had gathered. 

    Iron  that is hardened by alternating extreme cold and heat becomes "tempered steel" much stronger and rust resistant compared to untempered iron. 

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sara -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  The brothers transformed Yosef's light into darkness..

  But wasn't that supposed to happen? Wasn't it part of GD's intervention in our lives? We had to go into exile? We had to go through all of this from what the brothers did to Yosef to the present day realities? Wasn't all of that part of the Plan? 

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sarah Goldberg -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  Alignment and nonalignment

  The Sfas Emes reminds us to maintain alignment with our true purpose.  Which also means to distance ourselves from misalignment. 

  All this based on the medresh about guarantors in general and Yehuda in particular. 

  But notice and recall some of the background before Yehuda gave himself as a guarantor to Yakov and then stepped up to fulfill that in Vayigash.

  Was Yosef's immaturity, self beautification, tale bearing, haughtiness with disclosing his dreams "proper alignment"? Was Yakov's favoritism of Yosef "proper alignment". Were the brother's plot to kill, actual throwing him into the pit, deception of Yakov, etc., "proper alignment"? 

  At the time all these occurred no one would say that they were obvious  "proper alignments".

  But....even those things that would have adjudged at the time  to be "IMproper alignments" at the time  later turned out to have hidden secret aligning and life purposes.

   May we all have prospective glasses to see that present seemingly negative nonaligning events will later turn out to positive aligning matters. 

    It seems that there is not much merit to call obvious good, good. There is much more merit to see the hidden secret inner good that comes garbed as seemingly bad at the time and not just much later on when the hidden secret good becomes revealed.  

    The whole Yosef story was, perhaps, designed to save the fledgling jewish nation from starvation, and to later fulfill the promise Hashem made to Avraham that his descendents would eventually be slaves and then be redeemed together with the great wealth Yosef had gathered. 

    Iron  that is hardened by alternating extreme cold and heat becomes "tempered steel" much stronger and rust resistant compared to untempered iron. 

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sara -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  What you're saying...

  Is that EVERYTHING, everything, the good, the bad, the ugly, the seemingly negative and postiive things that happen to us is always, for our good, for our growth for our realizations, for our connection with each other and ofc with GD. To hold on to this idea, this truth I guess you can call it can transform all of us. How to make people realize this?  

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sara -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  GD is our best friend...

  I believe that HE is. There are times that even though I knew and feel that HE is, HE's not always clear with me about the advice, the guidance. Hmmm... even though I'm writing this right now, I suddently realized, had a feeling just now, that I probably do know what HE is saying when and if I really think about it. HE does send messages. HE does!

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sara -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  We are each other's sugar cube... I wish!!

  I wish and pray that in fact you are right, that when one Jew meets another Jew, s/he thinks of the other as a sugar cube. :) When I see that it doesn't appear that way - reading comments Jews make about each other that are not so flattering - it makes me so sad. What can we do to change that? What can we as individuals do to show each other the incredible postive energy that would come from actually being that way? I have my ideas about it, and try to do my part, but so often I feel helpless and impotent when actually talking to those who have such incredibly negative attitudes about each other. 

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Alizah Hochstead -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  Where are the source sheets

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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  Sarah Goldberg -4 שנים לִפנֵי

  A procedural question

  Of course us distant  online participants appreciate the online content. 

  But.....

  Rabbi YY has held large in person farbrengens (19 Kislev) and Shabbatons (Catskills) yet continues to hold chasidus classes,  women's classes, etc only online without students present. We know that,  like everyone, in person participation is desired.

  Why the incongruity? 

  השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

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    A Student -4 שנים לִפנֵי

    Whilst I appreciate your frustration and I myself have been thinking the same, I wonder if this could not have been written with a bit more respect for our great Rabbi who invests so much in educating us FREE OF CHARGE...?

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

Women's Class - Sefas Emes Vayigash

Rabbi YY Jacobson

• December 22, 2020
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• 7 Tevet 5781
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• 2108 צפיות

שיעורים קשורים

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  1 שעה 32 דקות

  חָדָשׁ!

  Women's Chanukah/Miketz/Vayigash Class

  The Secret of Chanukah and Yosef: The Moment I Take the Credit, Life Becomes Tortuous

  The Ultimate Greek or the Ultimate Jew? The Battle Over Yosef's Identity

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  1 שעה 26 דקות

  Women's Matos/Three Weeks Class/Vayeitzei/Vayeishev

  Vanquishing the Ghosts of Gilad: Confronting Our Family Secrets

  Why Is the End of Bamidbar So Anticlimactic? The Epic Mystery and Pain of Gilad

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  1 שעה 39 דקות

  Vayigash Women's Class

  Decades Have Passed Since the Abuse, But Has My Family Changed?

  Why Didn't Yosef Send a Message to His Father that He Was Alive? Why Did He Torment His Brothers?

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  1 שעה 48 דקות

  Vayigash Women's Class

  What Yosef Taught His Brothers About Guilt & Anguish

  Who Is Responsible for My Triggers and Mistakes? Me or G-d?

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  1 שעה 39 דקות

  Chassidus: Likkutei Sichos Vayigash #3

  The “Litvishe" Sicha of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

  Why Did Yaakov Ask Yehuda, Not Yosef, to Build the Yeshiva in Goshen?

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  2 שעה 1 דקות

  Women's Vayigash Class

  When Yehudah Conversed with His Subconscious

  The Longest Speech in the Torah & the Glorious Moment of Transformation

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  1 שעה 42 דקות

  Tishah B'Av 5779

  Those Who Sow With Tears: A Prayer of an Abuse Victim

  Shir HaMa'alos Beshuv Hashem: A Little Seedling Nurtured by Tears

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  Essay Vayechi/Vayeishev

  Does Judaism Believe in the Wall?

  The Grand Debate Between Judah and Joseph

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  3 דקות

  Vayigash Women's Class

  To Be Or To Be Not? The Tension Woven Into Jewish History -- Part 1

  Yosef Yehudah & the Split of the Jewish Monarchy: The Deeper Story

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  1 שעה 16 דקות

  Women's Re'eh/Shmini/Vayeishev Class

  Why Did Jews Not Become Suicide Bombers?

  The Psychology of the Two Kosher Signs: Do You Have Split Hooves? Do You Chew Your Cud?

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  1 שעה 22 דקות

  Vayigash Women's Class

  Yosef, Yehuda and Tamar: When You Discover That You Got It All Wrong

  The Moment Which Transformed Yehuda