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Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn — and the Invincible Self

6.1K views · Feb 2, 2023

Rabbi YY Jacobson

A class on trauma responses and the invincible self.

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family for all the brothers thank you foreign there's a very famous expression in Ghazal the Gomorrah says it in the beginning of tractate saita and it's in other sources as well comparing marriages to the splitting of the sea in fact it's as cautious of the challenge the difficulty or the challenge of relationships of zivue so vogama the matches relationships the challenge of it is Christians of the splitting of the sea and to surface it seems like to be saying you know the splitting of the sea was a big feat you can't just expect to stand at a sea and it splits for you that's why Humanity developed different items different materials methods to be able to travel to take a Voyage Through Seas rivers lakes and oceans are ready from time immemorial because we don't expect to stand in front of a secret so what seemed like to say you know that marriages come with their own challenges it's Kris yamsov but sometimes it could seem like a very pessimistic statement really so does every marriage basically is every marriage destined to a lack of success unless there's crazy I'm self it's like who's creating this Christian so is there somebody with a stick who's going to strike on the water and boom the water parts the Camaro does make a difference between first marriages second marriages yet in other places all marriages are considered like Christians and why did the Ghazal use this miracle I mean there were many great things that happened could have said like The Exodus of Egypt like the man falling every morning like the Clouds Of Glory I mean there were so many that bearish and Miriam there was

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