Goliath and His Mother In Therapy - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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conflict between two people representing a conflict between two nations, the Jews versus the Plishtim, the Philistines, but it came to be seen as representative of the fact that sometimes somebody confronts a great towering figure or enemy or force of adversity and it would seem obviously that this little person is going to be defeated by this mighty titanic force, and yet when this person employs an unconventional strategy, sometimes things turn upside down and Davids of the world defeat the Goliaths of the world. The actual story is in Tanakh in Shmuel Bet, probably some of you remember it. Where the Plishtim the Philistines are tormenting, persecuting, harassing the Jewish people. They are neighbors in the land of Israel. The king at the time is Shaul, Shaul Hamelach or Saul. And the Plishtim have on their side a mighty muscular ferocious warrior by the name of Golias. The Tanakh describes him as being of unique monstrous figure, uh some 12 ft tall, extremely powerful, and if you could just put your cell phones on vibrate, I forgot to announce. And uh, he is simply his his his figure is so domineering, it could inculcate fear and dread into your heart. And the Tanakh describes how for 40 days consecutively, every morning and every evening, he comes and he faces the Jewish troops, the Jewish camp. He curses them, he harasses them, he taunts them verbally. He instills fear into their heart, how they will all be ultimately decimated.

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2. 6:14story, and wants to know one thing. Golias, the Tanakh says, came 40 days taunting, harassing…
3. 12:22indicates, a very pleasant person. Naomi comes from the word noam, which means pleasant. She was…
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5. 24:43they're not complete strangers. At the surface, they seem like not only strangers, not only as…
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7. 37:02could see it. Ruth is the one who was the action. Ruth is the one who…
8. 43:09touch on components that each of us must deal with in our lives, not only every…
9. 49:19takanah of lighting candles. Let's put it differently. When she saw her welcoming the Shabbos or…
10. 55:29Why burden me with the presence of an invisible god? Why burden me with moral limits?…

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