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How My Grandmother Died

What Did Adam & Chava Do When Their Son Was Murdered? Why Only One Yartzeit Is Mentioned in Torah?

1 hr 26 min

Rabbi YY Jacobson at his bar mitzvah, in 1985, with his grandmother Mrs. Teibel Lipsker

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The women's class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Matos-Masei, 22 Tammuz, 5780, July 14, 2020, streaming live from Rabbi YY Jacobson's home in Monsey, NY

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Sidhaarth Radhakrishnan -2 years ago
Source sheets in English?
Hey there,

When will the source sheets be available for these great videos and in English?

To The Only Temple!
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Shmuel Rosenfeld -4 years ago
Dear Rabbi Jacobson,

I enjoyed listening to your shiur.A beautiful insight into why Aharon of all tzadikim in the torah was metioned the date of his petira and only in parshat Masai.The idea for us to decide whether we want to be part of the churban or the binyam reminds me of a thought that came to mind that I heard from Rav Moshe Shapiro Shapiro zt"l and the present Tolna Rebbe yblt...Rav Moshe said sometimes we get so depressed at a close relatives death that we emotionally bury ourselves with the niftar and cant seem to get back to ourselves..said Rav Moshe..the word "Avel" (mourn) are the same letters for the word "Aval"-however..you can either remain in the abyss or rise to a greater level then before.Said the Tolna shlita in the name of the chiddushey Harim..אבל is the roshey taivot forאיך בין לסטיג.Im full of joy..its all where we want to be.

שנזכה ל..הפחת מספדי למחול לי..פיתחת שקי ותעזרני שמחה

Yasher Kochaha

Shmuel Rosenfeld

Har Nof,Yrushalayim

שנזכה ל.והראנו בבנינו ושמחנו בתיקונו בבמהרה בימינו..אמן
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malka -4 years ago

I read with interest your article about criticism. It's quite an avoda to defang criticism and to hear it in a dispassionate, and ultimately productive way.

Your full-bodied explanation was a pleasure to read and has given me much to reflect upon - as I personally relate to the struggle ;-).

But something is bothering me about this exchange. True, Bnei Reuven and Gad could have explained their perspective sooner, but as I understand your article, it seems as if Moshe's response was reactionary (with faulty assumptions, to boot!).

Even mere mortals are expected to learn how to engage in reflective and empathic listening (active listening)...to recognize that often the words expressed do not reflect the speaker's intention. When something niggles at us, it behooves us to leave some space for the possibility that we are not "getting" what the person is really trying to say, even if their words sound pretty explicit! Instead of an immediate reaction, we should train ourselves to ask - in a soft and truly open-minded manner, "What do you mean by that?" In my experience, this empathic and humble approach "opens" the space (practically and symbolically) for the initial statement (or in this case, question) to be refined.

Moshe Rabeni is anav mikul adam. Could I be reading this exchange in the wrong key?

Sincerely,
Malkie
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- Anonymous -4 years ago
  Thanks so much for your kind words and reflection.
  
  But actually, here it makes sense:
  
  Seeing what happened last time 40 years earlier, when the Meraglim returned, and Moshe allowed them to share their feelings, and it caused a catastrophe, this time around Moshe perhaps was determined to nip it in the bud immediately and root out any second crisis.
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Tzivia Mashinsky -4 years ago
Dear Rabbi Jacobson,

Thank you for the most meaningful tribute to my Bubby Ungar a'h, Tziporah bas R' Nuchem. Indeed, she lived a beautiful and ful'filled' life, passing away on 3 Tamuz, exactly 98 years after the day she was born.

Correction to one small detail: She survived Auschwitz with 3 sisters.

She built a beautiful family and merited to 'dance' in her heels at many great-grandchildrens weddings!

Gut Shabbos.
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joe -4 years ago
the raven
U asked in z aforementioned shiur
That being that
H” had told AH that he’d return to “afar”/עפר
How was he puzzled what to do with Hevel?
Actually if one looks @ “nature”
@a tree 4instance- z return עפר2
Is through decay. Why would he have been unsure oib azoiy?
Also maybe the Raven who aborted his mission on z Teyva bec of irrational jealousy; wasnt doing chessed @ all let alone shel emmes?? A person is choshed others often when possessing those very middos
...Maybe he had murdered a competitor, & was burying him to hide the evidence.
The raven After all לפי חזל is evidently highly intelligent, & capable even, of thinking like a member of the currently maurauding BLM MOB..!
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