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Does Your EGO Spell LIFE or DEATH?

Rabbi YY Jacobson discusses the spiritual implications of ego and…

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Rabbi YY Jacobson discusses the spiritual implications of ego and self-perception.

A 1h 10m hashkafa shiur by Rabbi YY Jacobson. Like every video on Lehallel, it was judged and approved under the Lehallel law before it ever appeared — no unreviewed result is ever shown.

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so I wanted to learn a specific minor in that focused on pesach and on the Seder as a preparation for the Festival of liberation so uh basically Hashem we have to come back to that Miami but uh we'll now learn this minor it's a piece okay today's class is dedicated by Adam Farkas in honor of as he writes my Asus Kyle Tamar for as he writes my Asus Kyle Tamar for being such a role model for me and our children thank you very much class is also dedicated by the Sirota family in honor of the birthday of rifke versus from children your children and grandchildren are men happy birthday mazel tov also dedicated a memory of Yitzhak Moshe the near me the near me whose yard set was the 23rd of other and Rina fredel two young adults with special needs and very holy souls dedicated by their mother Rosie Mandel Tauber some may they remain an eternal source of inspiration and love and compassion inspiration and love and compassion and blessings for you and all of us in the whole family okay so as you see in the headline of this moment it says Lil based that's the date the second night of pesach in the English calendar would be 1967. and it starts off with a piece of the hagada now this is a piece of thy God that where many people are already exhausted because they're exhausted so therefore because they're exhausted so therefore you know we often go go through very fast but this is going to be a focusing on a very powerful section of our God and everybody knows it as the dieno it starts off with Karma Milos toivus foreign just a little bit about the background

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