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How Do I Become Aware of My Self-Sabotage?

Moshe Vs. Yehoshua: Sometimes Your Unconscious Fears Undermine Success

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This weekly women's class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Matos-Maasei, 26 Tammuz, 5781, July 6, 2021, live from Rabbi YY Jacobson's home in Monsey, NY.

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Ari -3 years ago
Hi Rabbi,
I never realized how more mind-opening the Q's & A's are. The questions are great, and the answers are so much deeper.

I am not an angry person anymore. I reconciled most of my childhood traumas while the iron was still hot. And for that i am grateful to Him everyday (maybe not as much as i should be, always, but i try my best). But there are things that will still tickle me, that I now notice (in the last five minutes - since the lecture ended), that although present as anger, are really just painful trauma. Pain from trauma. Some are older childhood traumas (Sharis Hapletah) and some from not so far back. These "things" are so ingrained and so subconscious in me, that i justified it to myself as normal - nature versus nurture - azoy bin eech, finished. But now im realizing that although it isnt healthy anger, its also not permanent - it can be undone if i sort of give it "its day in court". Hear it out. Size it up and embrace it for what it is - not the real me, my trauma. Now i know what i'm dealing with.
Thank you for cracking this nut. I hope my thinking is correct.
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Rachel -3 years ago
life is a journey into self awareness. As long as we are alive there will always be self awareness places that we haven’t travelled to yet….

If we look in Torah, I’m not sure how many lived perfect lives…
We look at our Avois, Dovid, Shlomoh, etc. They all became examples of how their life impacted them and us, through their strength but also through their weakness so also Yehoishuah is one of them. And Torah never shies away from pointing them out…..

What I got out of the class isn’t at all about judging Yehoshuah, it’s about the gift of awareness that I’m learning from this story that can help enrich my life and others so much more.
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Kj -3 years ago
Remember, GD allows everything that happens. Are you going to tell Gd that He is failing at His job and needs to be fired. Knock yourself out. You will not win!

So, did you get where you are because of sin (yours or another's), or because GD needed a Joseph to lead the slaves out of Egypt to serve GD.

Either way, the only answer is, do it like GD says.....how many other people does GD need to consider when thinking about your hurt, needs, and requests.

How many failed Josephs or Josephines does GD have on his hands waiting to be coddled? Show me where Gd coddled Joseph!
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Kj -3 years ago
Remember, if you can argue over the title, you don't have to deal with the sin, and you can still live in your lower nature. List of money is made in stroking the lower nature of man/woman!
Just remember, if you don't label it sin, there could be an excuse for it and you have, or think you have, a pass with Gd!

Lots of money is made by people who have made careers out of stroking mans/woman's lower nature.

The laws and ways of GD are never wrong. The only paycheck you need is Gd's paycheck.

Remember, it says vengeance belongs to GD and unishmento belongs to the courts. The law of Gd regulates you!
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Kj -3 years ago
I never see trauma, emotional abuse, etc labeled that in Scripture. I only see sin, with one remedy, GD!
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