Rabbis Need Mentors Too: Finding Purity & Support

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

In the same way Rabbi Woods is saying before, that a saleh hora'ah is important for every community member, I think it's important that rabbis also a saleh hora'ah, have their own people who they can turn to, who really are living a life that when I look at that I can be reminded there is purity in the world. I can be reminded that there is something very pristine and very perfect that is untainted. And there are very few places where we can find that, but we all know that we can find that somewhere. To me, that's always a a big source of of comfort and clarity. My wife and I talk

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1. 0:00In the same way Rabbi Woods is saying before, that a saleh hora'ah is important for…
2. 0:31comfort and clarity. My wife and I talk about, obviously without disclosing details, but we happen…
3. 1:01hand-holding, and where it is appropriate, where it's not. Also, in all of our communities, we…
4. 1:32the collaboration of the mental health community together with the rabbinic leaders of many of our…

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