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Basics of Emunah #29: Therapy, Mental Illness, Anxiety, Molestation

When Rabbis Disappoint; Why Not Get Rid of Religion? Why Do My Ancestors Obligate Me? When to Divorce?

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Q &A:
Therapy, Mental Illness, Anxiety & Faith
Child Molestation
When Rabbis Disappoint
Why Not Get Rid of Religion?
Why Do My Ancestors Obligate Me?
Individuality & Chassidic Dress
Talent for Acting
When to Divorce
What Was the Opposition to Chassidus?

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Edward -5 years ago
Hello, this question is for Rabbi YY. I have been listening to the emunah series and I'm on lecture 29. I feel your lectures and making me see religion in a much more positive and loving light. Specifically in regards to the actual meaning of reward and punishment. However, perhaps I'm not completely clear on this because no matter what I read I see that a Jew is punished if he sins and rewarded if he follows the Torah. One example is Parsha Ki Savo 28/15 - 69 where it briefly mentions some blessings and goes in depth on the frightening curses filled with suffering and agony if we transgress the laws of the Torah. Throughout our history we saw lots of suffering from Bet Hamikdash 1 to the Holocaust. If HaShem truly does love every Jew like a mother or father loves their child no matter if he's a sinner or righteous why does the Torah clearly specify such harsh punishments?
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Breuer -5 years ago
I recently follow some of your Shiurim and can't thank you enough for their clarity.

I want to thank you in particular for a recent Shiur in which a Baal T'shuvah asks about which Rabbi one can trust and is the world all about fame and money..I am not a Baal Tshuva (though I hope that one day I will be zoiche to Tshuvah Sheleima.) however this subject bothers me to no ends.

Why does everything in Yiddishkeit seem to be about pump and publicity. Your answer was fantastic that we need a true relationship with Hashem rather than with Rabbi's etc. I too was brought very much the same way that the עיקר is the פנימיות and I try instilling this message into my children. The problem is I sometimes feel I am the only nutter thinking this way.

I wish there could be more people like you who are not afraid of saying the truth in front of a audience. Thanks once again. חזק ואמץ !!
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anonymous -6 years ago
You mentioned in a shabbos farbrengen that had you been invited to the anti-Zionist rally at Nassau Colosseum mamesh the day of the 70th anniversary Israel Day parade, you would have said to them better to go be mikarev a yid.

Well, let me tell you a story from shul today.

I was speaking to an Satmar drop out who comes to your shiur. When these guys find out I'm a BT, they often ask how shrimp or lobster tastes, etc. I tell about the typical BT story of growing up frei with details etc. His reaction, and remember he's a YY Shiur goer, is to say "Oh, you were a goy!" I corrected him with "tinok shenishba."

That's how they think. That's how they're brainwashed. Not frum equals a goy. Mamash.

So, when you suggest Satmar and others go mikarev a frei yid, remember they are taught to think of frei yidden as goyim.

Why would they want to be mikarev a goy? First they must be dissuaded from thinking this way.

We need to teach them that every Jew is a Jew is a Jew is a Jew!! We need to teach them what it says in so many books that no Jew can ever learn their inner core spark.
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Anonymous -6 years ago
missing classes
hi i dont find the classe #15 #18 and #28.
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Moshe Aryeh -6 years ago
fantastic
This is the best movie I've watched in a long time! Instead of getting lost in a fantasy world I got uplifted.
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