How to Forgive If You Can't Forget

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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.

all the guests who have arrived yesterday or today we're thrilled and privileged to have you and i'm so happy to be here with you on this wonderful morning dedicated to the theme how to forgive if you can't for get they tell an anecdote about a fellow who crossed the atlantic ocean the atlantic ocean from the other side of the ocean came to the united states and he had the reputation of for himself of being what's called a captain he was a poor man his father was a poor man his grandfather was a poor man he came from a city in belarus lithuania called pinsk and he arrives in new york he decides it's time to open a new chapter in life change the paradigm from now on he wants change the paradigm from now on he wants to be a respectable person he goes he borrows money buys himself a beautiful designer suit beautiful watch very exquisite shoes very elegant tie fashion hat he looks impeccable comes into the synagogue on shabbos from now on he's going to present himself as an honorable dignified member of the community dignified member of the community instead of being that schlamazel the schlepper the bottle and always second tier so he decides to go and sit right in the front of the show you know near the president and the members of the board and the rabbi he's sitting right in the front you have to believe in yourself if you want others to believe in you as your therapist will tell you but then he thinks but how am i going to really become an honorable person and then he realizes you know in every shul

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2. 5:06this is america this is america as du kansai this is america if you could be…
3. 9:48fist you know what the next step is a sham nobody so they say that many…
4. 14:22and don't even be angry you think you have sold me you haven't sold me god…
5. 18:58god you have given me my soul i spoke yesterday at length about the electricity flowing…
6. 23:34them okay this doesn't mean you don't want to send them into therapy for 69 years…
7. 28:14what else is god is one god is one means god is not made up of…
8. 32:51in my family there's no forgiveness we are the quintessential dysfunctional american or east european jewish…
9. 38:02it's exact it's a hole in the ground what do you put in the hole in…
10. 42:37can't forgive you for somebody else i can't forgive bin laden for the victims of 9…

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