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The Hidden Gift of Feeling Everyone Else’s Emotions

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Rabbi Shais Taub

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You are live. I hear you. You are live. Yes. >> Okay. Sorry. Sorry, I was expecting to hear my name. Thank you so much. Shalom shalom. >> shalom. >> Can you say her name again? I love your name. >> Techelet. I picked it myself. >> I like it. >> You know, the color of the priestly hem. >> It's also the color of the door here at the Soloveitchik house. That blue the blue color. >> Right. Yeah. >> How beautiful. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I've been told it's the color of God's throne. And I really like to talk to you both and see the side of you Jeff. >> Yes. >> Um and I am a Jew from Kansas. So hopefully that's comforting too and I lived in Chicago. >> Great. Okay. >> I really Yeah. Rabbi, I really appreciate you talking about sensitive souls. And maybe you can give me some guidance. >> Okay. >> You talked so much about sensitive souls and am I talking too loudly? >> No, you're talking perfect. >> Okay. Um I am one of those sensitive souls. >> [laughter] >> It's so loud. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt, but you are just with the cans between the popping them open. So I wonder if everybody knows when they hear that. It's a lot of can activity. Nothing else. All right, go ahead. I'm so sorry for interrupting. >> [laughter] >> Okay, you sensitive souls. >> happening in there. >> No, no. You're just dropping a can. You just dropped a can. >> Okay. >> Sensitive souls. >> So I am a sensitive soul. I feel like my relationship with God enables me to hear his voice as the constant sound in my head and it is

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  1. 0:00You are live. I hear you. You are live. Yes. >> Okay. Sorry. Sorry, I was…
  2. 1:34powerful and beautiful and I hear it in silence and solitude. Being with people is a…
  3. 3:09frame. >> Yeah. >> And I've certainly done been able to do like psychic readings and…
  4. 4:42they can process five senses stimuli through their five sen- senses. And the rest of the…
  5. 6:14can just rephrase it for everyone. >> Mhm. >> You thrive in silence. Because for you…
  6. 7:48you know it's like when you're on the set of Curb and it's like even though…
  7. 9:20your job is really I'm sorry to say it. I don't know and I'm I'm not…
  8. 10:51Don't like go on a boat or something. >> [laughter] >> Like, cuz that could be…
  9. 12:23sitting. I cannot go up, go down, and I'm up for a good 30, I'm down…
  10. 13:54find comfortable for me. And I know sometimes in life things have to be uncomfortable, but…

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