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Healing is Seeing Your Brokenness in Context of Your Wholeness

1 hr 16 min

This class was presented on Monday, 9 Tamuz, 5784, Parshas Balak, July 15, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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Aharon -1 month ago
May you truly be blessed Rabbi Jacobson in all manner of blessings, hidden and revealed, in gashmius and in ruchnius, you and your family and your students and may we see Moshiach immediatley.
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Danny Bergson -2 months ago
They tore their clothes
Just a thought that the custom to do keriya before burial (or in the case of a avel who can't attend - to tear upon hearing news ) could be connected to this same concept of ripping the emotional clothes away to reveal the raw state of pain and anguish in the heart of the mourner at the loss of a loved karov

meaning it is more than just a wanton act of destruction giving vent to the terrible pain of the loss - which God sanctions and allows despite the usual issur Baal tashchis

if that were the only meaning then why year clothes one can destroy many things

Clothes cover and protect us from the elements and emotions too can protect us or we can become numbed to the truth of a situation

so we tear those superficial coverings to reveal the reality of death at that moment pre kevurah

Only By facing the truth of the reality can we become to emotionally and spiritually heal from it

just a thought based on what rabbi yy said re yehoshuah and Calev tearing the clothes from the meraglim (acc to kotzker rebbe)
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Rabbi YY Jacobson

Dedicated by Sarah Rosenbloom in memory of her beloved parents, Ruth and Isaac Jacobs, A”H