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  Terry -6 years ago

  Should Jews forgive the Germans

  Dear Rabbi Jacobson, i have learned so much from your comments during this show.  I was struck by Rabbi Heschel's response to Simon Wiesenthal....it really helped me to know that there is no obligation to forgive those who hurt others.

  Perhaps the most powerful insight that you offered were your words about how to forgive: to realize who we are and about God's providence...this makes so much more "sense" than being told simply that one "should" forgive. At the same time I loved learning about the nightly meditation.

  Thank for your comments about the diversity in our community.  I have only recently started to learn about groups other than my own and I am in awe of the richness and wisdom and depth that exist in the teachings of our various groups...how much to appreciate about our entire world-wide community.

   

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  Aron -9 years ago

  Hi Rabbi Jacobson,
  I still feel lacking in the issue of forgiveness. At the end of the day should we forgive the Nazis and ultimately Hitler or not?

  Especially after you spoke of Nelson Mandela, Yosef Hatzadick and how we say in krias Shema הריני מוחל

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  Yakov Rothschild -9 years ago

  תודה כבוד הרב ועיין בחומש היכל הברכה מקמארנע על המצוה לא תעשה לא לנקום שמוסיף "אם עומד במרדו יכול לעשות מה שיוכל כדי למנוע...אף יותר מה שהו עושה לו ולא יהיה הכוונה לנקמה...אבל יהיה הכוונה שימנע את חבירו מלצער אותו

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

• May 2, 2015
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• 13 Iyyar 5775
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Classes in this Series

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  1 hr 31 min

  Women's RH/YK Class

  Stepping Into Your Highest Soul Frequency: No Rupture, No Void, No Need for Logic

  I Can Live My Entire Life with a Superficial Identity; Teshuvah is Realignment

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  1 hr 55 min

  Rabbi YY in Conversation with Trauma Victims

  Yom Kippur Without Anxiety

  How Can We Experience the Bliss of Yom Kippur?

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  Women's Yom Kippur Class

  Tuesday Women's Class - Like Clay in the Hand of the Potter

  A Seven-Step Program Toward Finding Serenity & Purpose

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  1 hr 18 min

  Lecture at Chabad of Aventura

  When Your Sins Become Holy

  Is G-d Present in My Pain and My Mistakes? Reb Tzvi Pesach Frank and the Hebron Massacre

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  1 hr 7 min

  Five Towns Lecture for Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur

  The Courage to Be You

  The Secret of Kol Nidrei: Don’t Die in Utero

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  1 hr 16 min

  Teshuvah Derasha Yavneh community, Los Angeles

  Why Is G-d So 'Judgmental'?

  People Loved to Be Judged When It's Done the Right Way

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  1 hr 18 min

  Yom Kippur Women's Class

  The Teshuvah of Our Generation

  My Greatest Sin Is Not Believing How Good I Am

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  47 min

  Lecture in Washington D.C. on Forgiveness

  How to Forgive if You Can't Forget

  Sometimes You Think You've Been Buried, but You've Actually Been Planted

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  1 hr 15 min

  Great Neck Yom Kippur Lecture

  The Secret Of Kol Nidrei: You're An Eagle, Not A Chicken

  "Did Your Soul Travel So Many Miles to Fix Buttons?"

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  Queens Yom Kippur Lecture

  The Modern Jewish Marrano

  The Incredible Story of Paraplegic Olympics

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  51 min

  The Holy Heretic

  The Story of the Greatest Heretic in Jewish History: Elisha Ben Avuyah

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  57 min

  Denver Yom Kippur Lecture

  The Jewish Approach to Guilt

  Seeing the Holiness in Your Sins