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  mordi -12 years ago

  past and present
  This was a nice way to describe the balancew between past and present, maybe even the future.
  
  
  
  The Holocaust was horrible. The bus in Bulgaria is horrble. Of course the scale of 6 million versus 7 dead and 23 wounded is hardly comparable. Except for one thing. Antisemitism has been with us throughout history , only the magnitude is different. Spanish Inquisition, Russian and Ukranian and Polish pogroms, Mumbai etec etc. and all the cases that do not make it into the newspapers. My point is that assimilation was not the cause of the Holocaust and it will not be seent hat way no matetr how our rabbis try to push it , as in this article. Being a Jew is what caused the Holocaust.To our enemies they never ask what kind of Jew you are, religious or not. To them a Jew is a Jew.
  
  
  
  Throwing religion into causes is very unwise, and why secular Jews , who by the way are in the vast majority, especially young Jews, are tuning out and turning off. This article may resonate with a minority of Jews at best. Antisemitism and religion are separtate issues. You are better off speaking of antisemitism than you rae about religion. Despite the fact that you are a rabbi and religion is your business, start giving a little more thought to antisemitism. No Jew disregards that.  In the pre  WW II  Europe you describe, assimilation had nothing to do with the Hoilocaust. A Jew is a Jew. No Jew forgets it. Trust me. religion is not a crucial point.
  
  
  
  Good Shabbos !

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  Aryeh -12 years ago

  Great piece
  Beautiful!  One comment if I may. In the opening questions  I thought the 2nd question should not be "Why is this verse redundant ?" No verse, word or letter is ever redundant. Rather perhaps the question should be "Why the need for the second part of the verse"  or perhaps " the second part of the verse would appear to be redundant". Anyway, a beautiful piece nonetheless!

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  thanks -13 years ago

  Idaho
  Thanks for this amazing and inspiring farbrengen. You really bring the Rebbe to life. From all the participants in Boise, Idaho.
  Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz
  Chabad Lubavitch of Idaho
  

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  fran -14 years ago

  great
  WONDERFUL ARTICLE .
  THANK YOU.
  
  FRAN DANIELS
  

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  suri -14 years ago

  stuck in a rut
  Some yeshivas in the frum community seem to be stuck in the past. It's not working. The bochurim are not doing well in these places. Outwardly, they play the game. Inwardly, they feel so empty and are living for the Gass. It seems like this article really hit the nail on the button in supplying a solution to the yeshiva's ills. I hope and pray that the leadership takes a good hard look at this message and puts it into action.
  
  Thank you so much Rabbi Jacobson for your insight. May you be blessed with all of your heart's desires.

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  tzipi glick -14 years ago

  Two roads
  Excellent!!! Thank you

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  Abraham -14 years ago

  Looking forward to...
  
  I always look forward to reading your weekly essay. This is not meant to be taken as criticism but rather to express to you the desire to see NEW material.Nonetheless, your words are always meaningful.
  
  Thanks

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  DW Duke -14 years ago

  Relevancy
  This was a great article. The distinction between those focusing on journey in contrast to those focusing on departure is excellent.

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  Shira -14 years ago

  thank u for the clear and motivating thought!
  Being in the "dating parsha" and being someone passionate, G-d conscious, and growth-oriented, i dont quite fit any "labels"...over the past weekend I've been re-pondering how my ideals and goals might differ from people in both the black and white community and the modern orthodox (yes, i acknowledge a continuum)...and how i can go forward being aware of how jewish history has played out and maintain and open and warm stance to people who believe differently or don't care to understand other views or jewish history. This essay was EXACTLY what I needed. mamash. While I understand you are only an agent of Ha-shem, I would like to be makir tov to you, Rabbi Jacobson: thank you SO MUCH!!

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  Kayo Kaneko -14 years ago

  Japanese too watching you
  Baruch HaShem
  
  I had LaChaim in Japan with you guys.

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  Kayo Kaneko -14 years ago

  My devastation was blessed by this Farbrengen
  Baruch HaShem,
  
  I watched this video in 2010. I have schizophrenia and was hospitalized a year ago. Because of the hospitalization, I was told by my doctor that I have to wait 6 months till I can start working again. It was devastating because I was planning to go to Israel in 5 years for conversion and I need money to pay my debts and save for living in Israel.But this difficulty was blessed by this farbrengen. I will try to implement your teaching to my real life situations with struggles like the letter "Hei" with which world was created.
  Shalom

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  shaya -15 years ago

  another question
  First I think that question 2 should really follow q3. Look at masie 5747 in the maamar kein sicha where the Rebbe asks a forth question: why does it even say that Moshe wrote it down? Didn’t he write the whole torah? If I recall correctly, the Rebbe says that how can we take the past along with us as we carve out the future, the challenges that we face are so strong? The Rebbe says that we have the koach from Moshe, the Vayichtov Moshe gives us the koach and ability to overcome the menius veikovim that we face.

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  Chana -15 years ago

  Thanks
  I heard it all today live in youe class. Writing and the reading is always great but the LIVE presentation is far more. the power of the spoken word, that is something we always need to think about. Words are like bubbles that float in the air, light but with incredible hidden power. Written words can be deleted or changed but the spoken word, once given wings, that is a different matter.
  
  Anyways I always joy your classes so Keep it Up and Thanks. Chana Sharfstein

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  N Wagshal -15 years ago

  Thank You
  Thanks so much again for a wonderful concept and great writing.

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  Bassie -15 years ago

  great
  great essay

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  Chaim -15 years ago

  briliant
  Brilliant!

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  alex -15 years ago

  Two roads
  It is my contention that at least from Chukas on, the Torah is highlighting the paradoxical and counter-intuitive nature of life. Here, however, the Torah is addressing the dialectical
  principle built into the DNA of life. Departures become journeys and vice versa, forming the thesis, anti-thesis, and synthesis (which becomes the next point of departure.)
  One could say that Halacha was instituted to bring order to an otherwise chaotic and anomalous universe. It resolves, based on a source document, the Torah, what would otherwise be a confusing journey in a wierd world of claim and counter-claim on one's attention and allegiance. It is meant to be fluid (hence the comparison to water) and malleable, and definitely is a child of the dialectical nature of disput-ation resolution. Without such a tool, indicating appropriate action, a person could be immobilized by not knowing what to do.
  So, Halacha is about motion, journeying us to new temporary destinations, which then become the new points of departure.

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  Goldman -15 years ago

  thanks
  The gimmel Tamuz farbrengen,as well as past webcasts was wonderful.It is truly a benefit to be able to sit at home and participate in a farbrengen.
  
  The Goldman family
  Crown Heights

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  Anonymous -15 years ago

  MP3
  Thank you so much for making MP3 available. It realy makes a very big difference!
  Would you please upload previous farbrengens as well?
  Thanks in a advance.

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  RACHEL KLINGER AZULAY -15 years ago

  THANKS
  Thanks, Rabi Jacobson, for all your wonderful lectures (MP3), and of course for allowing people from all corners of the world to participate.
  BRASIL/24.06.09

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  sam kustanovitch -15 years ago

  Gevaldig!
  I was so moved,so inspired.Reb Yosef,May Hashem keep your message strong and vibrant "ad beeahs goel tzedek!"

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  football -15 years ago

  SUPER
  thanks
  
  SUPER !

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  חיים - ירשלים -15 years ago

  מצויין !
  ישר כוח ותודה רבה

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  leah -15 years ago

  go Eli Cohen I love ur voice

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  Evan -15 years ago

  MP3
  Thanks to all of the sponsors. A fabulous idea. How wonderful it would be to have the lecture aspects of the night downloadable. There was just so much to absorb! Thanks again for the inspiration.

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  Aaron Seruya -15 years ago

  thanks
  Your presentation tonight with Rabbi Jacobson was amazing and fabulous and enormously inspiring. I never heard of your website untill tonight when someone told me to tune in. I didn't know the speaker was the brother of the author "Towards a Meaningful LIfe" which I love and spread that book to many people.
  My question is where can I obtain an audio version of the talking portions of tonight's presention of Rabbi Jacobson? Will you have it available or maybe even in written form to be read or printed out? I'd love to get it or buy it and I'm sure many others would like to also and to pass it around. Many Jews could benefit from this. Thank you and congratulations on such a great mitzvah you did tonight. I hope you can do it again and you can advertise it more in advance. I'm in S. Francisco
  thank you
  with love of a fellow Jew Aaron Seruya :)

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  Laneri -15 years ago

  Thanks for making revealation in our mind. Thanks for fresh water from your heavy rain. Thanks for your sensitivity and care.
  You are as miracle as usual!!!

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  Larry Siegel -15 years ago

  Really inspiring as always. Great seeing my daughter in the audience.

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  Anonymous -15 years ago

  Will the MP3 available for download after the evening?
  Thanks

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  Admin -15 years ago

  Video Upload
  The entire Farbrengen will be available for rebroadcasting.

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  Levi Brashevitzky -15 years ago

  will tis be uploaded?
  I missed the first half, will the farbrengen be uploaded to the site?

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  dovid -15 years ago

  MP3
  i'm hoping the tremendous efforts to pull this off will not subtract from giving us a link to download an mp3 Audio file of the Entire evening. Thank you Everyone involved!

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  ida and rob dick -15 years ago

  Terrfic Farbrengen!!!! Play it again.

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  Anonymous -15 years ago

  a wonder evening
  so glad to share this evening with you. Rabbis Klar and Kasowitz are wonderful people and true friends!

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  Montrealer -15 years ago

  Beautiful farbrengen. Nice to see the crowd interaction. It would have been nice to hear some sound from the crowd as well.
  
  Job well done. We need more.

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  yonason -15 years ago

  from Brooksville Fl
  arrived here 6 years ago on Gimmel Tammuz after spending a year in Indiana, where I arrived on Gimmel Tammuz. I stll don't know why I was sent there, or here, but I know it's all for the good. Kol Tuv, and thank you Rabbi Jacobson (one of my first Chabad "contacts" via the internet), for all your wonderful work!

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  Anonymous -15 years ago

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  joe -15 years ago

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  tzvi jacobs monsey ny -15 years ago

  thank you for the weekly inspiration shlepping to work is now a pleasure I am sure that you are giving the Rebbe much chassidishe nachas!

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  Bonnie Reiss -15 years ago

  Thanks for sharing
  Thanks to Rabbi Mendy and Alta Goldstein who bring Yiddishkeit to the "wilds" of Naperville, Illinois and sponsored this Farbrengen telecast at the Naperville Chabad House this evening.
  
  Bring Moshiach now!

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  Boruch N. Hoffinger -15 years ago

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  Very nice farbrengen!
  
  When the Jews of Crown Heights really start to love one another Moshiach will come.

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  Nice! -15 years ago

  GO ZALMY LEVY!

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  Tiferes Bachurim -15 years ago

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  Hello there

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  max gruenberg -15 years ago

  great farbrenghen
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  Hirsh Dlinn -15 years ago

  Pittsburgh Ir HaKodesh
  We are listening in Pittsburgh after getting back from Yeshiva Schools Girls Graduation Festivities!!!

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  Smuel-David -15 years ago

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