Addicts Can't Find Healing in Temporary Pleasures: The Deeper Truth / February 2023

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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.

Dr twerski once told me he says Rabbi why why let me tell you something I have 60 years of experience he told us to me in Boca six years of experience has taught me that the addicts Among Us are the most spiritual Among Us and they couldn't numb their pain with rugalach and jalapeno Herring and you xiaomi kugum like some of us so they went to alcohol to drugs they destroyed themselves you know why a whole crowd up there okay welcome for bringing us together on this suspicious evening of yutask love and thank you everybody for gracing us with your beautiful presence thank you for Rabbi k for your very moving words about your son of blessed memory may be an eternal source of light confidence and inspiration to you the family all of the Jewish people in Israel and the whole world there's an old anecdote how about a couple in New York that didn't have children for many years and a great kabbalist came for a visit from Israel and they went to visit him and they asked him if he could pray for them to be blessed with a child and he said of course and he asked the Father the husband and the wife to write their names and their mother's name on a piece of paper and he said he's going tonight back to Israel tomorrow will be at the Western Wall and I'll put a note into the wall and pray to Hashem that they have children great he comes back for a visit five years later and he's walking in the street and he sees the woman whom he met a few years ago and he says Hi how are you how are you he looks at her and he says has there been good news she says yeah we have 10 children

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1. 0:00Dr twerski once told me he says Rabbi why why let me tell you something I…
2. 6:20and the Torah enumerates the ten Generations the names of those ten generations to tell you…
3. 12:32could punish me and the fires in purgatory are going to be very powerful and Intense…
4. 18:45potato chips like we got they'll call Child Services on you such a level of abuse…
5. 25:06you want to relax those against love again not on my watch let me show you…
6. 31:21foreign but the truth is that sometimes it's these children who actually allow us to become…
7. 37:29anger an impulsive toxicity I'm not talking to you I'm trying to deal with my own…
8. 43:42that his mood should fluctuate he didn't want the roller coaster of life he always wanted…
9. 49:50the night of pesach the river used to give matzah he would distribute matzah to uh…
10. 56:05was seven years old now I'm 72. wow but I still know what happened when I…

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