The Struggle Podcast: Child Safety, Agunah Crisis, Self Esteem, How to Parent

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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.

the best father in the world. I'm Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson. Everybody comes to talk to me. Why can't my kids come to talk to me? Such pain to keep women or men in shackles for so many years. It's not enough the abuse they went through their whole marriage. Now they can't even get out of the marriage. So important, every woman needs a support system. She can't do it on her own. As a community, we are not allowed to tolerate people who are abusing innocent people. Mikvah is it's very important. But what do you think about sending children? Okay, we have over here today an esteemed guest, special guest that came in today, an individual who needs no introduction, Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson. Um you have a way with um raw messages and emess that you give. People are You're known for giving special raw messages. You have dedicated your life to help people, to help people out of their struggles, to help people out to navigate life. You know what it says? The term of the voided says that our job is to emulate the bon olam. The bon olam it says elokim bakashas hanirdof. And what I noticed is that you dedicated your life to stand up for the nirdofim. Your style when you stand up and you speak about certain topics with such a passion, with such a fire. I remember a few years ago I was by Shiners and it was on a Tisha B'Av. Uh you gave a shiur 3:00 in the afternoon. 2 hours, 2 and 1/2 hours. And you went into this uh you were talking about child protection. You were talking about um child molestation. And you were standing there with a fire in your eyes for 2 hours in a row. And you were talking like the Rebbe used to give a sicha and not know

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1. 0:33the best father in the world. I'm Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson. Everybody comes to talk to me.…
2. 6:31it's not the kids guilty that his father is a is a but when we starting…
3. 12:52seconds, within 3 seconds, of them finishing the warning, you have to repeat back to them…
4. 19:17it is. The first thing is parents must be educated about all of the aspects. Age…
5. 25:40in Europe, including rabbonim and edel shuls. Not everybody, but many. Yeah. And when he converted…
6. 32:02loves using Ledish Tova Beguf the Malka. To be swept in Lisha Ev like Simcha Baisa…
7. 38:20themself, the parents. We're talking about the parents what we spoke about before that they are…
8. 44:41they know how to be careful. it's it is important to emphasize two things. Sometimes things…
9. 51:01the fact that especially for older people, you know, mikvah is a very very powerful tool…
10. 57:22before to be able to share it because this is an achrayis on her. This is…

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