Has 'Unconditional Love' Destroyed Our Children? - Rabbi Shimon Russell & Rabbi YY Jacobson

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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.

times with a lot of is be very practical pragmatic and also give a voice to all of the different parts in ourselves this journey is a journey that's fraught with uh pain with uh questions with dilemas with deep struggles someone who says that this journey is just simple and easy and gmak and delightful is either not on this journey or living in another world or completely emotionally dead or detached so you know there's there are real questions emotional ones hasic ones intellectual ones spiritual ones social ones so that's what we're here really to do and uh open our hearts and our minds to uh the depth and the truth of this journey of trying to grow our ourselves and help our children become who they're destined and who they're supposed to become according to God's mission for each of them and it always begins with ourselves so I think uh let's begin ready when you are I apologize always before if I ask sometimes questions that are personal you know because that's the nature this is these are very personal intimate conversations by the way I embrace I just want to tell you you mentioned um that we we we get personal so it is uh it is my feeling after all these years that if we don't get personal if we can't be honest if we can't embrace our own flaws and warts and Imperfections if we can't look at them so we can't be real and as I say many many times it's the lack of our

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