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  Marcelo -11 years ago

  Muchas Hracias
  Como siempre, impresionante !!!!!
  
  
  
  Nunca me piedro el video !!!!!. Nos juntamos a verlo varias parejas y luego lo debatimos entre todos. (café y manicvitos de por medio).

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  Marta -11 years ago

  shiur
  Muy buenos los conceptos y muy claros, como siempre!
  
  
  
  Muchas gracias!

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  Buena enseñanza!! -11 years ago

  Excelente!
  Todas las semanas estudio estos videos!

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  chana sharfstein -14 years ago

  self- esteem
  When i taught public school my students were given an assignment to write about themselves, focusing on interests, likes and dislikes. We verbalized some thoughts to get stated. When it was time to write, a student asked me how to spell I. When I stated it was just the letter I he became quite upset. He could not easily accept the fact that any reference to him was just with one letter I. Interesting point in contemplating self- esteem. All other personal pronouns consist of at least two letters or more, but each one of us is just I- and I stands alone. When combined with just one other person we double in size to We, yet interstiong to note - only the pronoun I is always spelled with a capital. just some thoughts on the subject.

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  Linda Goddard -14 years ago

  Searching for Self-Esteen?
  Thank you, Rabbi Jacobson, for your wise lecture. Your words have meaning for the non-Jew as well. I am sharing this with my friends, Jews and Gentiles alike.
  Linda G.

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  chava -14 years ago

  giving more than just what comes easy
  my contribution to others defines what I'm worth......a very practical, pro-active equation. I would like to bring out a point you made that sort of drowned in all that patting on the shoulders of us Jews in general: that giving, significant giving, involves making personal sacrifices. Smiling a good morning at someone might come natural to one person, while cutting short a telephone conversation to give a spouse some urgently needed attention means sacrifice to them and giving several hundred shekels or dollars to a destitute person is actually too much to ask of them. For another person, it might be just the other way around. But we all have to make little & big sacrifices if we want to keep giving & increase our self worth.

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  fran -14 years ago

  Sadly
  Not too many realtors would make that list. Everyone I work with seems to be out for themselves only.

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  RivkahLeah -14 years ago

  "Importance of a Jew"
  We all know this. However...the one thing that wasw omitted was that what gave us this special place in the world was our commitance to tgrue torah values. The cultural-secular jew soon became assimailated and disappeared!!! So much for bringing light to the world!!!!

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  Ilana -14 years ago

  thanks
  Thanks for such an uplifting email- it is such a great start to the day to receive such powerful messages- I appreciate these emails and hope to pass it on by way of action. A great thank you . Kind regards Ilana Tockar

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  Rabbi Eli Hecht -14 years ago

  why
  With all respect to you, Why the need to keep on bringing up non Jewish writers, (who's work needs some corrections). for proof etc...stay well rav eli hecht

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  ch -14 years ago

  soo relevant to all of us, tora toras emess!!

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  Orna -14 years ago

  Thank you
  

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  Anonymous -14 years ago

  MAZAL TOV! and THANKS!
  B”H
  3. Questions and Exercises
  1. There are two types of children living in two types of ‘tomorrow.’ Can you describe them?
  Everybody knows that there are children who live in Jewish environment with more or less strong Jewish traditions. They are like delicate beautiful flowers in a glasshouse. Its air is full of warm and sweet songs like one presented with Rabbi Jacobson… Their ‘tomorrow’ is continuation of ‘today’,their parents and grand parents live. Tomorrow they will take place at their Dads’ site (or even a step higher) in business, in shul, in hierarchy of their society and eventually will build a new glasshouse for their children. Most of their questions are around the details of the Main Construction...
  But sometimes the glasshouse is broken and delicate flowers cannot survive in a cold of material world. It tears them apart, chops their dignity, and bathes their soul in sloppy physicality. Forgetting heights of life style, they turn into a weed from the field… with only one wish: to be as one with other weeds as possible. Their “tomorrow” is like “yesterday” of their ancestors that G-d took out of Egypt “with the might hand”.
  2. How do you define yourself vis-a-vis your parents?
  As the third generation out of glasshouse…
  And your children vis-a-vis you?
  They are fourth one, accordingly…
  3. Do you find your children following in your footsteps, or not?
  When they were young we had a lot of hiking and I did. In a modern world it’s impossible: everybody has to have his own car…
  What do you think is the primary reason for this?
  A lot of highways…
  4. If you can do things over, what would you change?
  Could I protect my poor great grandma who gave up with her son’s peer pressure and served him his first hamburger outside of her kosher kitchen?(“ Don’t kiss me”, she said to him after he finished it and she turned around and kissed him to his nape) Could I plead her to teach her grandson assert her silver Kiddush cup that is not for sale? Could I beg her to leave a request about those two beautiful candelabrums that ended at a local auction? Could I do anything at the ash of a glasshouse?
  5. Why do you think the Lubavitcher Rebbe presented this idea—about the need to engage both types of Jewish children—in 1970?
  Because from minority they eventually become majority.
  6. Why are we obligated to engage even the second type of child?
  Is it a rhetorical question?
  7. How do you engage this type of child whose very paradigms are so drastically different from the Jews of yore? How do we build a bridge between the past and the present?
  First, I’d like to build a bridge between two verses from Tehillim:
  In Tehillim number 34 we read: “From His dwelling place He oversees all inhabitant of the earth, He who fashions their hearts together, who comprehends all their deeds.”
  Number 82 states: “ …So I let them follow their heart’s fantasies – let them follow their own counsel.”
  ? ? ?
  Let’s say that the first is about a general flaw of energy and the second deal with fragments.
  So our task is to tap from the first source to organize the last.
  

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  Chanie -14 years ago

  Another brilliant shiur. Thank you.

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  Yossi -14 years ago

  great
  Not only a great shiur, but also a good voice.
  Rabbi Yossi Jacobson is the best our there.

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  sara penhos -14 years ago

  emuna
  como puede uno no perder la emuna con hashem

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  chaya -14 years ago

  MAZAL TOV
  

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  Chaim -14 years ago

  Question.
  What does the answer in the pasuk mean that we give to the child: "With a mighty hand did the Lord take us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”
  
  I understand what this means for us in order to approach them but how does the answer connect to them since they feel so distant and separated from Judaism.

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  Chaim -14 years ago

  Fantastic!
  Thank you very much.
  
  I always appreciate that you bring from the Rebbe the particularly essential messages for us today (not only machar) in such a complete and informative way.
  
  P.S. Your tie matches the curtain...

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  Ron -14 years ago

  HUGE, Thank you!
  And the education authority in israel is not POUNDED with this concept ???

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  Mark Siet -14 years ago

  Tomorrow's
  Once again your brilliant inspirations touch me deeply. May blessings flow continuously day and night for your kind heart and passionate discourse.
  
  Thank you Rabbi....
  
  Here are my thoughts on this lesson.
  
  Tomorrow is a vessel into which we pour our thoughts connecting both above and below.
  
  Paradoxically tomorrow never becomes anything but today most meaningfully this moment
  
  The sense of Mashiach is not tomorrow but here today. It represents a change of consciousness.
  
  The same principle applies to what we are thinking about and the way that we think about things.
  
  Tomorrow's will always come however what we can accept upon ourselves in the moment determines the call of the day.
  
  What is passed on comes from the first born which is why they are sacred to Hashem. The first born refers to that initial inspiration that comes from Hashem. It is the basis of every sacred connection,
  
  What we tell our children about this inspiration is to honor it, trust, give service to it and indeed recognize it as our connection to Hashem.
  
  So tomorrow in this context refers to that inspiration as it comes up and the child asks what is this all about.
  
  Yes all is Hashem and especially when you make that connection within as a personal experience.
  
  This also tells us what the meaning of bondage or slavery is in our own world terms. When we are tied to the material without regard to the spiritual we aren't able to tune in to those tomorrow's that are the lifeblood within. When Hashem willing an opening appears and you make the decision to leave behind those materials pursuits and pursue Hashem then you are suddenly living today in that tomorrow.
  
  It isn't that you have no part of the material it is that you place it in its proper perspective.
  
  Therefore an inspiration to study Torah or go to shul or do one more mitzvah is but another tomorrow that has become today.
  
  This has the effect after all of bringing all of our tomorrow's home today in this now and in these moments.
  
  In this way Maschiach is born of all those tomorrow's unified above and below and appear before as a garment all of us make step into partaking of divine connection 24/7
  
  

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  Boruch N. Hoffinger BS" -14 years ago

  Rabbi Yossi Jacobson
  All I know is that I love Rabbi Yossi Jacobson...he's a 'gevald!'
  'Smack!' a big kiss!

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  Admin -14 years ago

  Class Description
  1. Class Description:
  
  The Torah is unquestionably history’s greatest manual for education. For three thousand years, a nation has scrupulously observed its heritage and traditions. For three millennia, they studied, debated, and authored countless libraries of books on its every word. For three thousand years, through the hardest of circumstances, the chain of Jewish education has never been broken.
  
  This is not a coincidence. Immediately following the Exodus, Moses emphasizes the critical importance of communicating the message to the children. “And it will come to pass that tomorrow your child will ask ‘What is this?’ And you shall tell him…” Instead of being scared of questions, Judaism always encouraged and embraced questions. When you have the answers, you are not afraid of questions.
  
  Rashi comments that the word ‘tomorrow’ refers to “the tomorrow of now,” but also to “the tomorrow of a later time.” What does this mean? What is the tomorrow of ‘today’ and what is the ‘tomorrow’ of a later time?
  
  There are two types of Jewish children, asking very different types of questions. One lives in a ‘tomorrow,’ yet it is a part of and a continuation of the ‘today.’ This a child who cherishes the values and ideals of his ancestors. But the other is a child who lives in a ‘tomorrow’ completely alienated from the ‘today’ A powerful gulf separates the weltanschauung of the parents and the children. Their paradigms vary drastically. We sometimes feel compelled to reject and give up on this child, but the Torah instructs us to embrace and engage him.
  
  The class will explore these two types of children throughout Jewish history, and our sacred calling to each of them.

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