The Art of Silence - "Learning For Raizel"

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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.

the yeshiva dotnet it's a very hard week for raisins friends and nevermind for Rachel's family this is a terrible terrible loss I mean we're dealing here with a person who was 39 years old and a large family of eight amazing and special children they were living in Israel and due to her illness the family uprooted itself from the Holy Land and came to the United States of America relocated here recently to Muncie to Maya neck of the woods and this has been a excruciating ly painful journey for her and for her loved ones and this past week she said goodbye to the world and many a tear has been shed I want to emphasize I think one important point but it's sometimes overlooked and that is one might think logically that when a soul leaves the world it's just disconnected the body isn't turned into the earth and the soul goes back to its spiritual source and yet it's actually a revolutionary idea in Judaism that when I or you sitting in this world on our planet in my home in your home and I learn Torah in memory of this soul I learned matthias for this in the summer my gift sadaqa I give charity for this in the show I do a mitzvah for this neshama I say a prayer for this soul I do a good deed for this soul I bring in light into the world for this neshama I say Kaddish for the neshamah or whatever the method is it actually has a tremendous impact on the soul do you think how does that exactly happen I'm sitting here in my room and I'm

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1. 0:00the yeshiva dotnet it's a very hard week for raisins friends and nevermind for Rachel's family…
2. 6:20befell you me we don't have the words we don't have the quill the pen to…
3. 12:33moysha tried to comfort him his brother Marsh the uncle of these boys the uncle of…
4. 18:48answers there are no solutions to devastation there are no easy comfortable ways of making peace…
5. 25:03whatever you don't you don't know I also don't know so what's the difference what I…
6. 31:18uncertainty do I go this way do I go that way a decision I may have…
7. 37:32thank you thank you very much could you bring me water could you bring me water…
8. 43:45with itself a lot of the experiences that it had including scars and wounds and blessings…
9. 49:52sometimes bad for example when somebody observes abuse injustice cruelty sadism barbarity silence is a crime…
10. 56:05light our inner light to the world around us to bring unity into fragmentation to reveal…

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