Why So Many Frum People Feel Empty | Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Have we become firmer than the Torah? I heard a speech of yours recently where you had said, [music] "Torah that's real doesn't consume you. It warms you up." >> If I find the Yiddishkeit dulling my senses, [music] crushing me, making me feel horrible about myself, this is not the divine flame. That's futile. It's not the point. Really, [music] Yiddishkeit it brings out the best in you. It makes you more creative, not less creative. More alive, not numb and dead. More passionate, not frozen and disassociated and detached. Have we become firmer than the Torah? If Moshe Rabbeinu got off a plane and came into college today, would plane and came into college today, would he recognize us? We can't just have a relationship with the Yiddishkeit that is skin deep or that is based [music] on pressure or that is based on fear and doing the right thing in order to be able to conform to the system, become part of the machine. It feels like there was a little bit of a stir up between the reality in which you're speaking of and the way our system is structured. How does anything you just said translate into the systems we currently have in the firm world? >> In every step of the way from yeshiva, bais yaakov, seminary, shidduchim, how? You drop off your kid at school and it's uniform. Figuratively and literally,

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2. 6:37sakareacha? Why would you beat your friend? Why would you strike your fellow human being? And…
3. 12:16position, when I don't care. Right. So then Like you said about Rabbi Akiva's students, they…
4. 17:50recently where you had said about um the the burning bush, the Moshe Rabbeinu saw. And…
5. 23:32He lived in Montreal. Um my brother actually had a relationship with him. He passed away…
6. 29:42Maggid of Mezrich. And he he says, Shamati Reb Zusha Nera Yoyar, may he be well.…
7. 35:54Everyone's a main character in a way. Everybody's a main character. That's And the Mishnah says…
8. 43:30marriage, in my children, in my students. And there's so much trust, trust that every soul…
9. 49:06the mission says in the beginning of Pesach, "Call Malcolm Shein Machnisin by chametz ain't sorry…
10. 54:42they are misnab'im b'machaneh. They're doing their own thing. They made their own system. >> [laughter]…

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