If You Believe You Can't, You Really Can't

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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.

[Music] the portion of slach tells the story of what is perhaps the single greatest collective failure of leadership in the tyre moisture abbay no sends 12 men to scout to spy on the land of eretz israel the men were leaders princes of their tribes people of princes of their tribes people of distinction yet ten of them come back with a demoralizing report they tell the jewish people we came to the land it flows with milk and honey they show off its delicious and splendid fruits but the people who dwell in the land are strong the cities are fortified and very large we cannot go up against the people living there because they are stronger because they are stronger than we are the land where we went to the land which we went to spy out these men say is a land that devours its inhabitants all the people we saw there are of great height giants we appear to ourselves like grasshoppers and so we appear to them wow khalif one of the twelve scouts tries to calm the people calm the people he says we can do it but ten of them the majority says it can't be done and so the people lose heart as the terror describes in the portion of the entire community raises their voice and shouts the entire community weeps an entire night the banaya stroll the children of israel complain against moshe and iron and they say if only we could have died

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1. 0:00[Music] the portion of slach tells the story of what is perhaps the single greatest collective…
2. 5:36and at least rashi i mean other commentators would also be great but rashi is the…
3. 11:49that it will desecrate god's name among the nations what is more if you were moshe…
4. 17:56understanding of yiddushkite we have to go back always to the baseline god created the world…
5. 23:35with full conviction and absolute dedication then the dream would become possible because god is the…
6. 29:47it's like i'm insulted could you believe in me can you validate because you just tell…
7. 36:31i know i don't know you but god knows you he created you i don't know…
8. 42:18and by the way that's why moshe uses the word god god they they the egyptians…
9. 48:26trauma and my spouse's trauma can i ever build magnificent relationships with my siblings with my…
10. 54:38the rambam writes in his guide to the perplex mayan of it's a similar idea that…

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