From Trauma to Transformation: Two Steps in Healing - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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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.

And read Ami. Or the Wall Street Journal. Or the Atlantic Review. But instead you came here to an outdoor tent. With the clouds of glory surrounding us from all four sides. Top and the bottom but it's still cold. How cold is the weather? Okay. If you could put your cell phones on vibrate in the beginning of the class. So you take your cell phone, you put it on vibrate in the beginning of the class. Or on off, we would appreciate it very much. Or you could put it in flying mode. That also works. So that way you don't feel you listen to a commandment. I'll take today's sheer is dedicated nishmas Leia bas Avraham. As well as Leia nishmas Alta Chana bas Reb Yitzchak. There is a story. In parshas Vayechi. In this week's portion. That raises many an eyebrow. And is profoundly enigmatic. Let me remind you, it's a story we're all familiar with, but let me let me remind you the story and the nuances of the story. In Parshas Vayechi, Yakov breathes his last breath. And in that process, before he passes, he speaks to all of his children. He blesses them. And he shares with them a final message. But before he does that, his beloved son Yosef, the Prime Minister of Egypt, Egypt brings his own two sons, Menashe and Ephraim, to be blessed by their Zayde, by their grandfather, Yakov Avinu, before he would pass on. Yakov is emotionally moved. He tells Yosef, "I never expected or imagined or anticipated to see your face. And yet God showed me not only you, but even your children." Just to be able to see you was an unexpected dream come true. To be able to see your children, wow. And at that point, Yosef takes both of these children, places them before Yakov in order to

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1. 0:32And read Ami. Or the Wall Street Journal. Or the Atlantic Review. But instead you came…
2. 6:33as Jewish fathers bless their children Friday night, or as all Jewish fathers bless their children…
3. 12:54the key. They were born before I was here. Lehem they become mine. Now this is…
4. 19:13is the oldest and that is a reason enough to get the blessing with the right…
5. 25:43gave birth to these two boys." Vayikra Yosef shem habechor Menasheh. This is Miketz mem aleph…
6. 32:21internally, there would be so much pain that is unresolved because of the trauma. Talk about…
7. 38:38He managed to reach a state where he was not stuck in those memories. There is…
8. 45:14"I am not my pain, and I am not the person that emerged from that pain.…
9. 51:33nonetheless, it's a different world. You breathe a sigh of relief. Why? Cuz it was a…
10. 57:51Hashem made me fruitful in the land of my poverty. Wow. Eretz on HE'S NOT RUNNING…

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