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  tzvi hirsh shusterman -11 months ago

  one of a kind shiur!

  wow! an amzaing shiur! one of a kind 

  so true a must watch! such healing words thank you so much reb yosef yitzchak!

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• Anonymous -1 year ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  Is there really a chance to ever get back to the you from before the trauma? I've been working for years to return to the old me from before the traumatic trigger, and I'm losing hope that I'll ever return. The old easygoing me is gone, and in its place is a ruined person. Is there ever hope to return to myself?

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    M H -5 days ago

    Hi, I would love to help you with some free resources, I am a certified Innate Health coach and I know, that no matter what you have been through, you can always come home - it just has to be done the right way, with love, embracing, compassion and truth

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      M H -5 days ago

      please email [email protected]

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• Anonymous -1 year ago

  Oy. I had cancer many years ago. It was likely stage 2 or nearly 3, depending on which doctor you asked. My parents and siblings understood me and my way of life and actions respectfully but my wife and children, didn't. Do I understand that it's your kids/wife/or siblings giving you the trouble, rather than parent (if they're still living, amve"sh)?

  In anycase, we both know the pain and fear from this scary and threatning monstor. It's real and there are no guarentees (I do bless you with a refuah shleima and belive that Hasehm can and will do nissim for you)! I don't know exactly what to tell you, especially that I'm not going through your situation and barely know you! It seems to me from you message that you're in desperation and yiush. Please don't. When you will be out of this, really soon, bs"d, you'll be a beackon and light to others and be able to be mechazek them and give them hope. I was NOT a good patient and gvetshed alot, I wish I didn't because repeating the story of my life I had at that time, is marred by bleakness and hopelessness (not even blaming myself; there are natures and also ways of accepting pain). NO JUDGING C"V. Just discussing with you like my best friend!

  You cannot control others but if by "any' chance, you can develop a backbone and find happiness and meaning in something you have passion for, you might be able to ignore (yes, it might be the only way for now: they will get the message and actually draw closer to you when they see your independance)! Iv'e moved mountains that way with a less understandable illness (not to say which is worse); mental illness! I showed such levels of not caring what others say or think that human nature prevaied where me loved ones chose to change their opinions (see, I suffer emotional issues and also had cancer once and BH in remission for many years). I'm the one answering because I'm not sure how other can answer pain and suffering the same way (Hashem should steer them away from all harm), but I'm ALWAYS open to you, RABBI JACOBSON to hear if and what I'm missing to help this wonderful tzaddik!

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  GL -1 year ago

  Thank you for this. There were many helpful points that helped me this Yom Kippur. 

  I just wanted to share one thought that I had this YK at neilah, that I thought could be helpful to others as well.
  
  It was one of those Yom Kippurs that I couldn’t daven much.
  Just too much overwhelm and overthinking about how I’m not doing Yom Kippur right.
  
  Especially by Ne’ilah. The fear that has been instilled in us that the gates are closing and we didn’t do YK right.
  
  Then I remembered the quote from the Lubavitcher rebbe that “the gates are closing, but you are inside”.
  But it still didn’t sit well with me.
  If I’m inside, then what’s the idea of the gates closing?
  
  Then a thought reframed it.
  
  On Yom Kippur we overthink. Too much, sometimes.
  
  So at neilah - the gates close.
  And yes - we’re inside.
  But what gets locked out?
  
  Our overthinking. Our teshuva OCD. The fears of not having done Yom Kippur right. All that stays locked out.
  
  We end Yom Kippur on the inside - clean and accepted. And we leave all that spiritual negativity locked outside.

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• Anonymous -1 year ago

  Beautiful

  מחילה
  comes from the word
  מחול
  which is dancing
  ריקוד
  Why?
  You forgive yourself. Hashem forgives you and you forgive Hashem.
  When we forgive ourselves, we forgive Hashem. Hashem forgives us.
  We go back into the dance of life, we start dancing again.
  There`s a circle, its a dance.

  How nice!

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Rabbi YY in Conversation with Trauma Victims

Rabbi YY Jacobson

• September 23, 2023
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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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  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