Emmi Polansky: Finding Agency as a Single Mother [Teshuva 4/5]

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

about and almost process what was going on in my own personal life because I felt everything piled in comparison to October 7th which in many ways is obviously true but it leads to something that you kind of press down a lot of the issues a lot of the emotions a lot of the frustrations that you may be grappling with over the you know over the course of a normal life and you feel almost inappropriate centering surfacing processing talking about those things at least I did when there are people who are literally in captivity we still have hostages there are people so many people murdered so many people so vulnerable and they're s like it felt unimaginable to me to allow myself to let at you know the everyday you know frustrations feeling let down insecurities like being able to process that and I spent a lot of months this year in particular ignoring it and I really felt it weigh down on me why am I sharing this to you now as an introduction is because I can't really explain why I felt so necessary and it was so important to share our guest today's story Our Guest today is someone named Emmy palansky she's not all that famous I don't think so I found her because of she has a account on Instagram called living amuna meaning the Hebrew word for Faith spelled e m u n a h you know there are a lot of people on Instagram who share you know and encouragement and inspiration etc etc and I'll be honest with you as somebody who views themselves in the you

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3. 14:22that there was anything wrong with the marriage I still you know still looking back I…
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10. 57:16especially when you have it and you have someone to give to and then it's almost…

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