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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.

How does one live with an open heart? When life often throws curve balls and even when there's no major curveball, but there's always the anxiety and the stresses of daily life, there is the loss, there are the tragedies, there are the challenges. How does one remain openhearted? How does one remain anchored in serenity and joy? I'm not asking philosophically but internally, emotionally, experientially internally, emotionally, experientially when we think about the three weeks and the nine days you know there's certain there's an element of uh of negativity there's an element of sadness of grief all of the things that we don't do all the memories and so on and so forth beginning with the 17th of Thomas culminating in tishab every year when the three weeks come I always experience experience a certain dread that comes into my heart. It's like already from childhood, you know, in camp, you know, now the fun stops. So, we're not going to be able to swim, So, we're not going to be able to swim, no music, you know, it's just a an energy of uh of uh heaviness. I would say heaviness. And this year when I started to feel it, I asked myself if I could change a little bit the music in my brain. And instead of seeing it just as doom and despair, to see it as an opportunity, as a gift to work through something, to work through the internal darkness, to work through the internal shame, to work through those very feelings. Because the truth is, I think we all understand that the purpose that

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