Never Kill Your Dream, but Learn to Embrace Your Humanness

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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.

[Music] today's class is dedicated in honor of bas rahul as well as yak of yusuf bin rahul as well as rifka basrachal to find a good shidduch easy and smooth larikis yamim vershanam tavis amen kenya hiratsu we're going to explore today a very enigmatic statement of the sages of the rabbis of the talmud and the madrish it's really very perplexing it's one of those statements you read it and you wonder what am i missing here what is going on it's extremely difficult to understand and comprehend but let me begin before i begin before we get into it with a line i think it's attributed to uh the french philosopher voltaire who was uh quite the great anti-semite even if he was considered a great philosopher and he said my life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare somebody else once said a professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep and finally somebody else said i never sleep comfortably except when i am at a sermon they tell an anecdote about a security guard who was mack watching he was guarding the home of his boss in the middle of the night he has a dream his boss is supposed to get on a plane the next day and in his dream unfortunately something terrible happens to the plane there's a crash nobody survives so he wakes up he calls his boss at home and he says listen i know this sounds

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1. 0:01[Music] today's class is dedicated in honor of bas rahul as well as yak of yusuf…
2. 5:36that i've been employed throughout the generations ready from maisha to interpret torah is what's called…
3. 11:53too much for you tomorrow you're going to hear those words about you ravloch it's too…
4. 18:04lady he exclaimed your imagination must have limits you have to recognize who you are and…
5. 24:11when i was growing up there was somebody in my home my house my home who…
6. 30:20is where you are dreams are the human way of protesting the status quo dreams are…
7. 35:59it's quite that god is everywhere a night movada you could touch truth in every situation…
8. 43:11going to be cookie cutters and meanwhile like so it's so sad to see the disappointment…
9. 49:20dream could be expressed beyond our own set ideas and allow that to be in that…
10. 55:28means the jealousy of scribes of great scholars increases wisdom the word is saffron sofa is…

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