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A Finger on the Pulse: Q & A with Rabbi YY Jacobson

Believing in Yourself; When Will Moshiach Come?; Cynicism & Fear; Reform Jews; Singles Crisis; Chabad & Breslov; Finding Your Song

1 hr 42 min

Class Summary:

On the 8th night of Chanukah 5781, 1 Teves, December 16, 2020, Israeli Rabbi & musician Shlomo Katz, enjoyed a zoom farbrengen with Rabbi YY Jacobson. They sang songs and addressed some of the powerful questions and struggles in people's lives.

These were some of the many topics explored: Believing in yourself; when will Moshiach come? Cynicism, sarcasm, & Fear; Reform and Conservative groups; singles crisis; Chabad & Breslov; how do you find a good teacher; discovering your song and becoming your song.

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    yaakov -3 years ago

    You are Mamash amazing. I’m so grateful to you.

    This is an enormously important class. The topics are my absolute favorite. And the pinnacle line is “to be anchored in Infinity”. Wow!

    We are blessed that you do what you do. May you BE”H have Continued Bracha and Hatzlacha and nachas from the entire family and in good health and happiness. 

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    Heshie Klein, MD -3 years ago

    A Hidden Benefit of COVID - Why We Wear Masks Today

    Rabbi YY, you said that this COVID is a Time of Infinite Potential, and that each one of usnow has an opportunity to spread the Light of God, the Infinite.

    When Moshe came down from Har Sinai, the pasuk says, Ki Karan Ohr Ponov – that the skn of his face had become radiant . . . and Aharon and all the Children of Israel were afraid   to approach him (just like, “Va’ya’amdu Mei’rachok at Mattan Torah).

    Then Moses spoke with them, and when He finished speaking with them, he placed a mask on his face. He only took the mask off when he would come before Hashem. At all other times, Moses put the mask back on his face. (Exodus 34:29-35)

    He did this because the light from his face was so bright that it frightened people.

    It seems to me that each one of us now has access to the infinite, and the ability to affect others with that Divine Light of Love.

    And I find it interesting that one of the hidden results (niglah) of the Pandemic is that our lights are so powerful that we have to each war a mask when we are with others.

    The light in our faces, the Infinite Divine Light is so powerful and pleuripotent that we have to be careful to not overwhelm people with it all at once. We have to practice patience when we try to influence people to attract them to God's Light.

    That is why there are 15 steps to the Bais HaMkikdash, and not a ramp. We can’t run up to it, we have to approach slowly, one step at a time. And that, my friends, is the way we have to share our God given Light.

    If a moth flies too closely to the light, it will be burned.

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    Deborah -3 years ago

    Rabbi katz, 

    You played the last nigun so beautifully.  Outstanding.

    Rabbi YY 

    Your "music" is so correctly put into words and so uplifting that it is always very very difficult to get back to "tachtonim"... kind of end of Shabbat feeling.

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    joe -3 years ago

    I was listening to your amazing discussion from Zos Chanuka. So much to listen to and chazer. Thank you both for the amazing chizuk. 

    I wanted to share this amazing note on the Ahavas Chesed from the Chofetz Chaim chapter 11. It speaks to what Reb YY said to the older singles and to all Jews. I learned this a few years ago and I spent an entire summer in camp just letting the guys: know, Just this, Just you, Just now! We made t-shirts etc, and it was an amazing summer. 
    Reb Shlomo, when they are not learning while stuck in their apartment in LA , my parents and brother always are telling me, we just listened to Shlomo Katz and it was amazing...

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    Esther -3 years ago

    Cynicism

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    So true

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Shlomo Katz Farbrenging with Rabbi YY

Rabbi YY Jacobson

  • December 16, 2020
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Dedicated by Yaakov & Avigayil Rosenblat, in loving memory of his father, Rav Elyakim Getzel ben Reb Yechiel Mechel

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