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A class on Emunah and the relationship between faith and reason by Rabbi YY Jacobson.
A 1h 53m mussar & chizuk 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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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
and happy and prosperous beautiful years and thank you very much. Amen. So we're class number four of the there's an end that Hashem put to the darkness of the year Shabas tish of 1964dal where we are at hey yeah >> yeah today is also the of my dear friendl who passed the way on gimmel tamos one month ago gimmel tamos tshin pv today his 30th day last night was a big inab [snorts] of montabelloo yeah may he be a good for his family and all of the Jewish people okay we're holding in the copies it's page gimal So here the mime shifts what's called from meaning from [snorts] the concept of everything that's been discussed about and the of how it's reflected in a person's life that's what he right away begins now literally usually when you read about such abstract things it could not have a relevance to life but if it's the whole ise to change the person not just another idea. So that's why it's extremely important always to have the what's the relevance right says in the the title page of the Tanya is says it's close to you it's relevant to you it touches you the question is for this comes a whole the layers of the different parts that people have knowing who you really are knowing the acknowledging all of the struggles. So this is the what does it mean for me in my life? Says [snorts] The first sh this was the main theme of the three different states of the b of
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- 0:34and happy and prosperous beautiful years and thank you very much. Amen. So we're class number…
- 6:41comes from that's what he says there. So creates the creates which is even deeper and…
- 13:08whole new depth. It's not just because you're not doing the work. It's much deeper than…
- 19:40means it's integrated according to your vessels. So essentially Mak and PMI is very much connected…
- 26:04going to belong this it's GOING TO MAKE THAT MY SAYS I think yankl is right…
- 32:35on this question. Huh. In there's an expression. There's nothing higher than that's a very famous…
- 39:01means it's removed it's divested from any intellect from the need of intellectual proof it's higher…
- 45:23meaning he says when you're contemplating with your because you want that your should be aligned…
- 52:00have a common denominator and the common denominator is that they don't know TA is true.…
- 58:27With the big bang, he forgot about forgot about the big bang. Or there's other issues…
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- Mussar & Chizuk — 1h 53m, by Rabbi YY Jacobson
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