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  Michael -3 months ago

  Alshich

  I found the same amazing idea of the Bardichover Rabbi here.https://www.sefaria.org.il/Romemot_El_on_Psalms.41.12.1?vhe=Romemot_El,_Warsaw_1875&lang=he

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    Michael -3 months ago

    Sorry this linkhttps://www.sefaria.org.il/Romemot_El_on_Psalms.41.13.4?vhe=Romemot_El,_Warsaw_1875&lang=he

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  Leah Klein -3 years ago

  I learnt somewhere that yosef never told his brothers , I was really hurt by you and I forgive you. He kept saying ,  yeah I was hurt but you didn't do anything , its from Hashem ....dont worry....it all came from Hashem. Because he didn't forgive his brothers clearly in the posuk , the energy of the heinous act and yosef's hurt followed the destiny of the jews and we were punished thru the generations for this act. The asara harugei malchus is said to be a result of micheeras yosef.

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  a yid -3 years ago

  Not "I am the light" but "I am an extension or ray of the light..."

  hi reb yyit's delicate language....when you're talking about the berditchiver on yosef to his brothers you sayyosef says "i am the light of Gd in this world"...but then you say, i think more accurately "i am anextension of the light of Gd in this world."    the former, lehavdil sounds like that other "religion".they say that all the time.in judaism isn't it essential that we make that distinction?  not "i am the light " but "i am a ray
  of the light" for example.i find it troubling H' calls yaakov kel and also what you said how in geulah tzadikim will be called'hkbh'?  i find that unnerving.  which, i think, as a jew is appropriate to be unnerved.how can a human be called like that?   it's too much like that other detestable "religion"please explain.also you mentioned re the attributes of Gd, the sefirot, but you said "the submission of Gd"...that startled me.  i don't understand.if you have time, can you please explain?

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    a yid -3 years ago

    correction:  rabbi yy     it's delicate language

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  Sara Metzger -3 years ago

  Someone asked...

  Is this the ultimate idea of bitachon?

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  Sara Metzger -3 years ago

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  My understanding that a person who offends another asks mechilla 3 times. They are very remorseful. If the other person doesn’t forgive them.

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  Sara Metzger -3 years ago

  Someone asked...

  Yosef used the same words, Yaakov said to Rachel, Is there a teaching about this?

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  Sara Metzger -3 years ago

  Someone asked...

  How do we implement this in our lives?

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  Sara Metzger -3 years ago

  Someone asked...

  If someone sees someone getting bullied, are we obligated to intervene?

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  Sara Metzger -3 years ago

  Someone commented

  If someone is making you feel badly it just shines a spot light on their own flaws not yours.

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  Sara Metzger -3 years ago

  Someone asked...

  What about the people who live their lives in fear of the opinion of their fellow frum Jews or the community they live in.

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  Sara Metzger -3 years ago

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  Wouldn’t the brothers be jealous or hate Yosef even more?

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  Sara Metzger -3 years ago

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  There must have been a point in creating the ego, yes?

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  Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

  The Torah doesn't say one must forgive?

  But, isn't it true that if the offender begs forgiveness three times, he is "yotzei" having sought forgiveness and the "aveirah" then belongs to the victim who can't or doesn't accept the apology and admittance? 

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• Anonymous -3 years ago

  How does one deal with people who can't forgive?

  Dear Rabbi YY,

  Someone who used to be very close to me in the past is not willing to talk to me at all anymore. This person used to love me but now despises me. It hurts me a lot since I still care for her. She makes me responsible for all the problems in her life and I am not able to accept this. It is very hard for me to live with the fact that a person who used to be so close hates me so strongly now. It hurts to see her suffer because of her own resentment but I feel helpless about the situation. I simply can't be indifferent to it.

  What can I do? What are my options to deal with this situation? I appreciate your advice (as always).

  Thank you

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  Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

  Thank you so much for the vindication

  I've had an ongoing argument with my family whether or  not I am G-d here.

  You have vindicated me. 

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  Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

  Did Hashem violate the commandment against making a graven image by making Man?

  We learnt that Yakov (and the Avos) kept the Torah before it  was  given. 

  But his promise to marry  Rochel overrode the chumrah of keeping the Torah before it was given.

  So too, Hashem said to the angels "let us make man". That is  akin to a promise,  a bargain corresponding to Yakov's promise to  marry Rochel. 

  Was Hashem Himself bound to keep the Torah He eventually gave us even BEFORE He gave it to us?? Maybe. 

  But even if He was so bound, would that chumrah override the promise or deal made with the angels to make man? (Like it didn't for Yakov).

  If so, Hashem didn't violate the future commandment against making an image just as Yakov didn't violate the future  prohibition against marrying 2 sisters. 

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  Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

  Forgiveness regardless?

  There was a famous holocaust survivor who forgave the Germans. Others were incensed and said they would not could never forgive. 

  Yosef forgive.  But then again he wasn't killed. Being thrown into the pit and sold was a reversible matter that indeed ended up as good.

  The 6 million kedoshim were not so lucky 

  Esther bas Yitzchak was not so lucky.

  There are reversible horrific acts and irreversible horrific acts.

  Do we forgive the Germans? Do we forgive Esther's murderer if caught? 

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  Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago

  A heinous senseless act of murder

  I know this is an age old question but it seems relevant to bring up again  now. 

  How do we reconcile the brutal senseless murder of an innocent beautiful yid with Hashem only desiring and doing good for us? 

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Women's Vayechi Class

Rabbi YY Jacobson

• December 29, 2020
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  Womens class

  Tuesday Women's Class

  Tuesday, May 7, 9:30 am
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  1 hr 37 min

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  Women's Pesach Class

  How We Develop Our Coping Mechanisms and How We Set Ourselves Free

  The 4 Cups and 4 Sons Are Four Steps to Emotional Liberation: My Divine Soul, My Animal Soul, Seeing Through the Facade, Emancipation From My Brainy Self
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  1 hr 46 min

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  Women's Pesach Class

  Can You Be Grateful for Each of Your ‘Four Children’? Can You Listen to the 4 Children Inside of You?

  Our Children Are Asking the Questions We All Struggle With Internally
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  1 hr 46 min

  NEW!

  Women's Pesach Class

  Can You Be Grateful for Each of Your ‘Four Children’? Can You Listen to the 4 Children Inside of You?

  Our Children Are Asking the Questions We All Struggle With Internally
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  1 hr 20 min

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  How You Can Use Your Darkness to Light up the World

  What They Did With the Ashes on the Altar Teaches Us What to Do with Our Darker Sides
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  1 hr 36 min

  Purim Women's Class

  How Queen Esther’s Banner of Pride Can Transform Every Victim’s Narrative

  The Untold Purim Story: The First Female Abuse Victim Who Dared to Speak Out
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  1 hr 46 min

  Women's Purim Class

  The Most INSANE Purim Story: When Rabah “Slaughtered” the Ego of Reb Zeira

  How Do I Find Bliss in My Challenging Life? On Purim, Two Sages Provided the Answer
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  1 hr 48 min

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  The Last Lecture of the Lubavitcher Rebbe: How to Love

  Why Is It So Hard to Serve G-d With Bliss? How to Love Your (True) Self & the Other
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  1 hr 29 min

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  Can You Give Yourself A Standing Ovation for Showing Up? Learning to Appreciate Ourselves

  The Beauty of the Golden Calf: When G-d "Learnt" Not to Take His People for Granted
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  1 hr 50 min

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  How to Live in Bliss: If I Can’t Feel the Pain, I Can’t Feel the Joy

  Why Didn’t Jews Lose Their Faith? Reb Akiva, Eli Wiesel, and the Rebbe
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  1 hr 22 min

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  The Unpaid Guardian & the Bliss in Letting Go of My Ego Entirely
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  1 hr 46 min

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