On The Way To Commit Suicide - YY Jacobson

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The opening of this shiur, in Netzoir’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

I have a friend Rabbi Mardash. He shared with me a story that he heard from the person himself. This fellow living in Israel was a successful businessman but unfortunately situation deteriorated. He was in terrible debt. His anxiety, fear, dread, isolation and depression became overwhelming and he simply could not take it anymore. And sadly, sadly, he decided to end his life. He decided on the way to work he would go off one of the bridges and simply send himself off a cliff to his death. As he's about to leave the dorm, his wife says, "Can you do me a favor? Our son is learning in the chini yeshiva. I want to send him a little doggy bag, some snacks, some food, a little gift. can you drop this off at the yeshiva for our bakar for our boy? And he thinks to himself, what am I going to be such a narcissistic father? That one last favor my wife asks of me to do, I won't do. He

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1. 0:06I have a friend Rabbi Mardash. He shared with me a story that he heard from…
2. 0:36go off one of the bridges and simply send himself off a cliff to his death.…
3. 1:06takes the bag. He stops at the mashk comes to the door and he asks the…
4. 1:36to know that this entire yeshiva could have been created just for this boy. You have…
5. 2:07to himself, you know, I just heard about what a boy I have. How much unbearable…
6. 2:40with those few words he saved this man's life. Never be stingy with love, with an…

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