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Rabbi YY Jacobson addresses mental health and coping mechanisms in a lecture to therapists and individuals.
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listen later. And I'm really very grateful for this uh this privilege and opportunity and to talk about something so important. And for this organization Avnei Chein for all of your tireless efforts and dedication and love for our brothers and sisters in your community and across Eretz Yisrael and all those you impact directly and indirectly. And uh Vihi noam Hashem Elokeinu aleinu u'masei yadeinu konnena aleinu. As Moshe says, "Yirat shamayim tishreh shchinah b'masei yedeichem." May the shchinah dwell in the work of your hands so that you should be able to continue to grow and be successful and be ambassadors of true healing and uh recovery and hope and uh love and uh expansive redemptive consciousness. And with arichas yamim v'simchas hadas u'menuchas hanefesh v'haguf. So my topic today is dealing with the stigmas of uh I would say everything connected to mental and emotional health. The stigmas in our community, the stigmas in our homes, our families individually and collectively. And where we stand today, how we can improve, how can we how we can each become kinder, more sensitive, more compassionate within our own hearts, within our own homes and families, within our communities, for ourselves, for our loved ones. So, I'm going to share a few thoughts, a few uh feelings about this matter. And I know we're going to have Soon we're going to open the floor also to dialogue and questions and answers. Everybody could uh I guess you already announced everybody will share their questions and we'll address it on a more personal, intimate level in response to people's questions. I think it probably won't be uh dramatic to say that in our generation, in our times we are seeing something very strange happening. Maybe it's not so strange,
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- 0:33listen later. And I'm really very grateful for this uh this privilege and opportunity and to…
- 6:09situation. Because of reality. I could try to fight reality, but at some point I have…
- 12:16and fell out of the system. And he said one Friday night he was sitting at…
- 18:24what a perfect family looks like? How do you know what a perfect job is table…
- 24:32who made you struggle most and thank them. Cuz you will say El Hanar has his…
- 30:43bemkomo. it says in tell them we say it every morning. There was confidence and joy…
- 36:50other words, we can together go and celebrate our redemption because I I didn't run away…
- 42:57piece of the matzah. It's usually not hard to open a pound of matzah shmurah matzah…
- 49:05brokenness. And if you can hold on to this broken matzah, and show other people how…
- 55:11Okay, wow. This is this is a painful but very very real question and there's a…
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