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Cuddled in My Mother's Arms

An Enigmatic Law in the Talmud Helps Us Alleviate Anxiety

1 שעה 3 דקות

Rabbi Chaim Shmulevitz, Mirrer Rosh Yeshiva (on the left), and Rabbi Shmuel Bornstien of Sochotshov, the Shem M'Shmuel

סיכום השיעור:

This weekly women's class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Behaaloscha, 14 Sivan, 5781, May 25, 2021, live from Rabbi YY Jacobson's home in Monsey, NY.

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    Sue -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    Answer to the person in Israel

    On a motzei Shabbos, I often had to travel alone on dangerous road. I'd be quite frightened. One night on this trip in car, I spontaneously started to create a poem about myself and Hashem in my mind. It relaxed me tremendously. On other journeys along the road I'd create a song with a similar theme. Since then, I've adopted this method as a regular tool to lift me up and take me through dark or difficult "journeys". It has generally relaxed me and it has increased my belief that Hashem is always by my side.

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • AR

    Aron Reich -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    Amazing! What is the chapters in Tehilim quoted? Ty

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • BY

    Bracha Yanni -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    What an amazing class Rabbi. As an educator we practice mindfulness with our students. This has given me a whole different perspective in what mindfulness truly is! 

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • SD

    sarah deitsch -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    Thank you so much. This was so phenomenal and a crucial reminder for me at a huge moment in my life.

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • DVP

    Daniel van Praag -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    Sources

    Thank you very much for this beautiful shiur. Could you please add to the source sheet: the Shem mi Shmuel and reb Chaim Shulevitch? Thank you!

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • B

    Binyomin -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    Answering the woman from Israel

    I t5hink learning Chasidis could really help

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • SG

    Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    JUST YESTERDAY

    R. Manis gave a free introductory webinar for a course  on anxiety.  (The course costs) . He seemed to indicate that emunah is the cure for anxiety.  And emunah as a cure is the course 

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • SM

    Sara Metzger -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    A way to help

    get into a place of alignment, even recommended by the Rebbe, is to read and study Shaar Habitachon, Duties of the Heart 

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • SG

    Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    If the cuddled baby never traveled because he was always

    Enwrapped in his mother's arms, what a highly evolved person feels he is constantly entrapped in Hashem's arms, can he travel without an eruv or beyond the tchum on Shabbos? 

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

    • SG

      Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

      *enWrapped

      השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • SM

    Sara Metzger -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    on the one hand...

    I see and understand what you are saying about the baby being with the mother being the "same" as the Jewish people in their wanderings being with and in the protection of GD, the baby really doesn't know any other reality. The Jewish people I'm thinking because of the fact that they are human with human emotions, with their failings and maybe not enough bitachon and emunah like the innocent baby, that the awareness of GD being there for us like the mother of the baby are harder to realize and KNOW all the time and every moment.  When one gets there, it must be amazing.

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • SG

    Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    If my emotions are the same here and there, and therfore I can

    Dismantle a construction on Shabbos, then why can't I dismantle on Shabbos if my emotional state, very subjective and ephemeral, is the same here in the original place where the construction is as there where I might reassemble? 

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • SG

    Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    If the yidden were permitted to dismantle on Shabbos

    Because they would reassemble on the same place, emotionally, why do the 42 stops have different names? 

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • SG

    Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    Like the baby who is entrapped in his mother's arms throughout

    All the journeys the mother took; and so the baby was in one place emotionally throughout, 

    How did yidden take sea journeys, entrapped by the ship,  across the Atlantic from Europe to America before planes became commonplace which perforce included a Shabbos? 

    Could one take a 25 hour flight to New Zealand that starts before Shabbos at that place and ends  after Shabbos at that place? 

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • SG

    Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    Could it be that the command to actually do melacha in the Mishkan and Beis Hamigdash and to make

    Cherubim (statues otherwise forbidden), both forbidden outside those holy locales, were "exceptions that prove the rule"? So dismantling on Shabbos on "command" from the indication of the clouds, were specifically allowed  there and then only and so nothing can be derived from that elsewhere? 

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • SG

    Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    The yidden might take apart the Mishkan and reassemble in the same place.

    Of the 42 journeys did that actually ever happen? 

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • SG

    Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    On Shabbos we may not give a gift because it's a type of transaction

    Yet, all say that Hashem gave the Torah, as we just re-experienced it, on Shabbos. 

    How could Hashem give a  gift on Shabbos? 

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • SG

    Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    We may not do melacha. We may not make a cherub type statue.

    Why is it that these two are allowed and even prescribed in the Mishkan and Beis Hamigdash itself? 

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • SG

    Sarah Goldberg -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    If it's creative work that's disallowed on Shabbos

    How come the MOST creative work we can do, the creativity that most resembles Hashem (you've mentioned that postpartum depression might result from having gone thru what most closely resembles what Hashem does); namely either conceiving a child on Shabbos (as recommended) or birthing a child, are BOTH not only allowed but the former is encouraged? 

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

  • S

    Sara -3 שנים לִפנֵי

    The first melacha

    was no fire, no?

    השיבו לתגובה זו.סמן את התגובה הזו.

Women's Class Behaaloscha

Rabbi YY Jacobson

  • May 25, 2021
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Dedicated by Grandpa and Grandma Mochon in honor of Irene bat Ana’s 1st birthday. 

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