Answering Life's Tough Questions with Rabbi YY

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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.

wife not your daughter your exceptional daughter thank you thanks so much for being objective i second that absolutely thank you that means a lot and and i do i do agree um and your wife este who's a good friend is a great friend and eden david are both friends and big fans of yours too so we really value and appreciate this time with you and all your teachings on a public level as well and no doubt many of our listeners that are listening today are big fans of yours too and are big listeners because uh yy is a household name but for those who don't know you and are listening um can you briefly introduce yourself to our listeners who might not be familiar with who you are but i'm sure they will become very familiar after this episode thank you that's very gracious and kind of you i appreciate it so my name is yes of yitzchak jacobson some people call me yy which was my mother-in-law's invention um i guess joseph yitzhak was a little difficult so she branded me why why so and i guess it took off and when people ask me why they call me why or i say when i was born some people said why why and i'm trying to answer that question it's appropriate we have a lot of whys for you today okay yeah so uh i was born in 1972 in brooklyn new york both of my parents russian immigrants who grew up in the communist era in the stalinist regime and suffered terrible terrible tyranny under the horrific conditions of the soviet union of the 1930s

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1. 0:32wife not your daughter your exceptional daughter thank you thanks so much for being objective i…
2. 6:09being on the team of the oral scribes of the laboratory of blessed memory who were…
3. 12:14they were not ready to say something that for them what was not real it's a…
4. 18:26for which you were chosen to become the queen of the persian empire the wife of…
5. 24:40of moral depravity here and cruelty and sadism is so profound that if we want to…
6. 30:48response and that is i think each and every one of us you know all the…
7. 36:52university his name is rabbi greenberg and he told me stanford is what you would call…
8. 42:59somebody i trust somebody who knows me somebody who i'm gonna truly listen to and can…
9. 49:08and of me as part of the universe and it just gives a perspective that allows…
10. 55:17what uh you know some of the great therapists call the four s's right that our…

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