Let's Stop Bashing Self-Love

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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.

Today's class is graciously dedicated by Dina Dornbush thanking the Rebbe for showing us the way back home with the help of his dedicated and inspiring shluchim. Thank you very much. Also dedicated [clears throat] to Aaron ben Sarah for a refuah shleimah and a refuah krovah, a complete and speedy recovery. We should be able to have him back in our men's classes. Not just virtually. At the end of parshas Balak, this week's portion, there is a very enigmatic and disturbing and intriguing and mysterious story. After Bilam, after Balak fails with his attempt to have Bilam Balaam curse the Jewish people, all the curses are transformed into blessings. And at this moment, there is so much positivity in the air, even the great enemy of the Jewish people, Balak, and the great enemy of the Jewish people, Bilam, all that could come out of his mouth are some of the most beautiful poetic praises in the most eloquent fashion on the virtues, the greatness of the past, present, and future of the Jewish people all the way to acharis hayomim. In fact, most of the prophecies on Mashiach come from the mouth of Bilam in parshas Balak. And right after that, chapter 25 of the book of Numbers, Bamidbar perek chof hei, which is the end of Balak, and you see it here, the Torah shifts to a very disturbing story. The Jewish people settled in a place called Shittim. This is in the Transjordan, the eastern side of the Jordan River, and the people begin to commit adultery with the women, with the daughters of the Moabite nation.

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1. 0:00Today's class is graciously dedicated by Dina Dornbush thanking the Rebbe for showing us the way…
2. 6:13desert, Moshe is soon going to pass away, and Eileh Hadvarim, the last book, begins Moshe's…
3. 12:33And then, you'll forgive me, he needed to clean himself. So, he used the nose of…
4. 19:05This one very uh it's a humorous, but it's also a sincere explanation. It comes from…
5. 25:14I mean it's an incredible process of how the body knows how to take food break…
6. 31:19of this unique invention. There's also another dark side to his life, but that's not for…
7. 37:27refuse. Is that the word refuse? The spiritual refuse of the higher world becomes the nutrition…
8. 43:34Like everything, we could take a look at the physical, but we could see what is…
9. 49:45to wake me up to something that's wrong, something that's bothering me. Something that's off. Anxiety…
10. 55:52real deity, if I'm really holy, DO IT EVEN MORE. DO IT AGAIN. DO IT AGAIN.…

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