Off the Derech: Where Did We Go Wrong?

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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 somebody once asked you know what do i need this headache three weeks nine days tisha buff leave me alone i'm living in the 21st century these things happen 2500 years ago 1900 years ago 2000 years ago life has moved on and i shared with this young man i said i know superficially it may look like you know i can't eat meat and i can't drink wine and today is a fast day and all of the limitations and halach is connected to tish above etc halach is connected to tish above etc but i said i just want you to see the other side of it and that is this is a people that's been around for more than 3 300 years and when we were reading echa last night in shul i was thinking to myself and then i shared it with my little boy who was sitting near me and i said you know year miya navi was a prophet who lived through the last five kings of judea observed the khurban in 586 before the kaminera in 586 before the kaminera or 3338 in the jewish calendar and he wrote these words he literally wrote these words at that time and here we living two and a half millennia later reed gather together sitting on the ground without shoes with the lights dimmed with the parotis removed with a sense of melancholy reading these with a sense of melancholy reading these words thousands of years later who cannot feel moved by such a connection by such an eternal living link that after so many so many so many generations through persecutions and savage suffering and unfathomable pain not only are we here but we continue with vibrancy the story the narrative the

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1. 0:32and somebody once asked you know what do i need this headache three weeks nine days…
2. 4:09added a few decades ago for the six million victims because in tish above we already…
3. 8:16gave him everything what happened was alifah's yitzhak son pursued yaakov and he caught up to…
4. 12:24we owe to the fact that yitzhak did not give up on alifa's he did not…
5. 16:29are asking are searching they're going to seminars and workshops they're going to shi urim and…
6. 21:05maybe at some point it worked i don't know if it ever worked but i say…
7. 24:43wow here's my question if jacob was really suspicious that this can happen to ruvain why…
8. 28:48don't make it a personal vendetta and a personal convict you're a parent and these children…
9. 32:55the renovation of new paradigms we can have an expansive consciousness the destruction of the second…
10. 37:03beat him up they will physically beat him up teach him the lesson of his life…

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