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Rabbi YY Jacobson teaches about responding to fear and stress through Torah figures.
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Want to wish everybody a very very happy and joyous and meaningful Lag Baomer. And may this very special powerful day the day of Rabbi Akiva and his student of Shimon bar Yochai bring down only blessings to all of you, to all of us, among all of our people in abundance materially and spiritually. Especially for inner peace and outer peace and complete victory and redemption. Amen. I also want to mention our dear Morah I also want to mention our dear Morah Kahana sitting shiva for her son this week. Um she was here also last week and they passed away last Thursday and I think she'll be sitting shiva either probably till Thursday morning, I assume. I just wanted to mention that and offer our deepest condolences. And I'm coming ask him a village here for Jerusalem. And we're very very very sorry for the loss. One of the pillars of our class for many years. Today's class is dedicated by an anonymous donor in the loving memory of a very very special man Harav Reb Yechezkel Eliyahu ben Harav Reb Yehoshua Horowitz a grandson of the Jekover Rebbe who re-edited and published the famous Ateres Yehoshua of the Jekover. He published his own Rimzei Emes. Was a great genius going illui talmid chacham an exceptional personality who chacham an exceptional personality who transformed a life that was very difficult into a life of blessing on so many levels. >> [panting] >> He was a genius and the generation after the Holocaust didn't know how to handle a child like him, yet he rose above it. Reb Chaim Meir of Vizhnitz, the famous Imrei Chaim, adopted him. And he rose to greatness and this class is dedicated in his loving memory and the Ayla Nishmaso. He passed away in the year tough shin iron vov 2016. Tehei Nishmaso tsura
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- 0:01Want to wish everybody a very very happy and joyous and meaningful Lag Baomer. And may…
- 5:44the joyous element of the wedding in a wedding wedding component. And that's what it's still…
- 11:52The possuk says that Ishmael is mocking Isaac. It's It's Isaac. Ishmael is mocking. He's mocking.…
- 17:29It says that Hagar married him off to a woman, and later we'll meet him in…
- 23:35person, whoever he was, had to grasp a paradox. And what's the paradox? The arrow has…
- 30:16what am I really in pain of? Am I experiencing and trying to be there for…
- 36:26A bow shot away is not geography, it's emotion. The Torah is talking on two different…
- 43:36and my tension or whatever it is she's running away from. >> Yeah. >> Here I…
- 49:08realize the extent of it. I was reading that just an example in 2024, the Shin…
- 55:20Dovid Hamelech, from all the metaphors, these are the b'nei han'urim. And the answer is as…
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