HaMeor SheBah #22: R' Menachem Poznanski LCSW - The Transformational Power of Storytelling

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaakov Klein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] so my friend yaakov asked me to give some perspective on a passage from kadusha slavey and the one that i chose is really powerful because it talks about the the depth of the messaging that goes into narrative and conditionally he talks about the intensity of the depth of the wisdom that is contained within torah and particularly the way in which the torah reflects messages of depth through the use of narrative and story which has become very popularized um in the modern era but definitely in the last number of years uh particularly in uh in the field of psychology and psychotherapy obviously the power the healing power of narrative uh is something that's been shown to be extremely powerful but uh but also the ability to transmit messaging uh through allegory and story uh metaphor and and what's really powerful about that is first of all is that it gives us a little bit of a glimpse into our relationship with with god because god uh ostensibly hashem is a storyteller um and uh one of the powerful messaging that you hear in the history of hasidis and in the messages of hasidis which are oftentimes most reflected through story

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1. 0:02[Music] so my friend yaakov asked me to give some perspective on a passage from kadusha…
2. 0:32that is contained within torah and particularly the way in which the torah reflects messages of…
3. 1:02messaging uh through allegory and story uh metaphor and and what's really powerful about that is…
4. 1:33is the fact that the bashar and his students always use stories to really capture the…
5. 2:05um and to really this gives us an opportunity to kind of look at our lives…
6. 2:35that hashem has been waiting so to speak i think that's the power of that for…
7. 3:05generation and i think that um it would only be apropos to tell one of my…
8. 3:36said uh you must not realize that it's shabbos and the and the enlightened jews that…
9. 4:08also change the way in which we look at other people um and the many other…

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