The Five Challenges of Life: Loss, Illness, Failure, Financial Stress & Uncertainty

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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.

[Applause] [Music] so they tell the story of this young boy walking in the street and he meets the family's old friend an Indian doctor from the Far East somebody steeped in the Far Eastern spiritual traditions hey Sami the doctor says I haven't seen you in so many years you've grown up how is dad how is mom how was your uncle and Sami says unfortunately my uncle is very ill and Indian doctor tells him he says you go and tell your uncle that he's not really ill it's all in his mind he thinks he's sick but it's all in his own imagination and fantasy it has to do with his own experience of self and consciousness he's not ill he just thinks he's ill okay if that's what you say two weeks later the boy is walking again in the street meets the Indian doctor hey Sammy how is your uncle doing he says my uncle thinks he died the pain that people experience in life is not only in people's minds it's part of reality and often very raw and painful reality and it's this theme we are going to explore and discuss this evening because when one examines the weekly Torah portion of mr in the book of iiquor in the Book of Leviticus one is struck by the fact that the portion of mr seems to have very poor structure or to be more blunt no structure at all if you open up the portion of mr it begins with the subject of death how the Kohen the priest the

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1. 6:13Friday the new bread and placed on the table in the temple on Shabbos the Kohanim…
2. 11:54pain the shock the sense of loss and perhaps above all that sense of finality this…
3. 17:40and a meltdown and people suddenly discovered that in truth we have very little control as…
4. 23:21maladies and the curses and the hardship that take over eals life and sometimes you look…
5. 29:12you pass on there are a few words that can describe the experience of loss and…
6. 34:53should we really be thankful for existence sometimes existence is fraught with so many challenges and…
7. 40:32Hashanah which allows you to begin with a clean slate to begin anew Rosh Hashanah is…
8. 46:16don't become defined by money it's not the exclusive reason for your status for your dignity…
9. 52:00angry at God very resentful towards God even cursing God this is what happens in em…

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