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Dissolving into Oneness Is Life or Death? Depends Who You Are

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This text-based class, the 5th and final class on the Maamar Az Yashir, Torah Ohr Beshalach, was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, Parshas Yisro, 22 Shevat, 5781, February 4, 2021, live from Rabbi Jacobson's home in Monsey, NY.

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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
After the devastating Hurricane Sandy,
NJ came up with a slogan: "Stronger than the storm"
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danny bergson -3 years ago
re: victimhood
“...(S)uffering is universal. But victimhood is optional. There is a difference between victimization and victimhood. We are all likely to victimized in some way in the course of our lives. At some point we will suffer some kind of affliction or calamity or abuse, caused by circumstances or people or institutions over which we have little or no control. This is life. And this is victimization. It comes from outside. It's the neighborhood bully, the boss who rages, the spouse who hits, the lover who cheats, the discriminatory law, the accident that lands you in the hospital.

In contrast, victimhood comes from the inside. No one can make you a victim but you. We become victims not because of what happens to us but when we choose to hold on to our victimization. We develop a victim's mind -- a way of thinking and being that is rigid, blaming, pessimistic, stuck in the past, unforgiving, punitive, and without healthy limits or boundaries. We become our own jailors when we choose the confines of the victim's mind.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
It was said that because the yidden had Torah and mitzvos,
Chesed and Gevurah, positive and negative mitzvos, they were able to pass through the sea.

But... they didn't! They were at the 49th level of Tumah. They were steeped in avoda zora as the angels argued. 80% didn't want to leave. Brsides the 7 Noahide laws, they only had the mitzvah of rosh chodesh and the requirements of the first seder and other things surrounding the killing of the first born.

Or.....was that enough because they listened and obeyed?
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
The yam suf was on either side
So we went through.

But at Mattan Torah we didn't go through a split mountain, but it was held over our heads
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Sarah Goldberg -3 years ago
The beginning of ego starts with one's name
When we receive a name, and as we mature we identify with it, it separates us from others.

So why are we given names? Maybe better never to get a name, to stunt the growth of ego, and to remain as part of the entirety of man.
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Chassidus: Torah Ohr Beshalach Az Yashir #5

Rabbi YY Jacobson

February 4, 2021
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22 Sh'vat 5781
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Dedicated by Todd and Raphaela Stern in memory of our beloved father
Seymour Emery Newman, Shimon ben Yeshaye Berel, who lifted all of those he encountered. May his neshama have an aliyah and be a meilitz yosher for all of klal yisroel in this most challenging time.