The Spiritual Origin of the Amygdala, Limbic System, & Prefrontal Cortex

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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.

Good morning everybody. Welcome to our Thursday morning's [snorts] class the first day of Raj Khes Tammed Alf the 30th of 75781 June 10th 2021. Thank you everybody for joining us. It's a pleasure to have you on Zoom. Could you just give me a thumbs up that you could see me and hear me beautiful? So what have we been learning? We have been exploring the mimer of 1955 to understand the deeper dialogue between the spies and between 10 of the spies and two of the spies. Those who opposed going into the land and those who advocated going into the land. But here we are discussing the whole story from a we are discussing the whole story from a deeper spiritual perspective. This is quite an intense and profound mimer exploring the various facets of the human personality. But to sum it up, we have learned about three aspects of of the human personality. Let's call them primal drives. Midi Midi let's call uh another component which is ideas and thoughts which is and then what you have what's called emotions which are the way the midis are expressed as herrigation as as visceral experiences that we feel. Now it's important to clarify something here. I think very important. When people say I feel, it could mean two people say I feel, it could mean two very separate things. For example, a person tells you or tells himself or herself, I'm feeling sad. I'm feeling lonely. I'm feeling glad. I'm feeling scared. I'm feeling anger. I'm feeling resentment. That's a very visceral description of

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1. 0:03Good morning everybody. Welcome to our Thursday morning's [snorts] class the first day of Raj Khes…
2. 5:52If you trace them back, you will find them embedded. These characteristics, these drives are embedded…
3. 12:08can understand I can understand everything will soon see that the real things I don't understand…
4. 18:18that every single mida has a soul and the soul is the fueling it there is…
5. 24:45doing what to you?" and they'll say, "It's making me feel, let's say, sad, right? Making…
6. 30:57there's a lot there. Somebody asks, I think it's a big mistake to reference the brain…
7. 37:42I listen to that person who is telling me there is the million dollars. I listen…
8. 43:55but I'm still in a state of Eb. My emotions are still in a state of…
9. 50:09in so deep. So there's always mid but even the fetus has mid certainly when you're…
10. 56:23I don't even feel the excitement of it. Not because I'm not excited but that the…

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