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Jacobson explores destructive vs. holy shame, Tanya’s model of distinguishing animal and divine consciousness
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Yes, beautiful. So, first of all, welcome everybody. Thank you to coach man. Thank you to user, my dear friends. Thank you to And thank you to the entire amazing audience that's with us here gracing us with your presence this evening. Those who are watching, listening, those who will soon come on, those who will watch or listen later. It's a great privilege and opportunity to be here. [snorts] As I came on, Asha Parnes told me that this tonight is the sixth anniversary of this tonight is the sixth anniversary of this uh incredible weekly zoom program of unity and akus and I think I was on one of the first few weeks. No leasher >> you were on probably she like 10 something like that. >> Yeah, I think we did something on marriage multiple times since then. >> Yeah. And uh really to be able to see, you know, those [snorts] were very very uh crazy days. Lots of trag lots of tragedy and death and everybody was home and everybody learned what it means to and everybody learned what it means to be home for a whole year. And uh the fact that you used uh you know, you took the crisis and turned it into an opportunity, an opportunity for tremendous amount of growth and awareness and unprecedented ways where people in their kitchens and bedrooms and living rooms and wherever they are for those for that year. And then it continued to be able to really go deeper into themselves and dedicate time and resources and energy to the most important aspect of life which is our
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- 30:54something I once read you know there's 15 steps in the what's the last one everyone…
- 37:05That's number one. And it's not a crime. People sometimes feel guilty. It's not a crime.…
- 43:11of Hmon the henchmen of Hmon that morning and I don't think it happened because Donald…
- 49:23[sighs] That's how I see it. >> Well, let's go to the next live question. Very…
- 55:34faith and religion. You know, we're secular democrats. And I think the Jewish people have evolved…
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- Hashkafa — 2h 10m, by Rabbi YY Jacobson
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