Memorial Day: The Deepest Truth About Unity and Pain - 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.

We still have the parents, the fathers, the sons, the wives, the friends of we can talk about those who are fighting at the risk of their lives and even more so those who have been killed in action. And and what is something that we can say to the individuals as opposed to the claw the individuals those parents etc. Those other relatives that have lost a loved one and obviously that is an unbelievable contribution that they've given to claw the show but the personal pain is so deep. How can we address them in particular? >> [sighs] >> I'm going to try to get through these words without crying too much. Let's see how that works. I'm always touched by the first vision of Moshe Rabbeinu with Hashem. He sees a burning bush that's not being consumed. He wants to understand it. What's the mechanism? A tree on fire should be consumed. Why is this thorn bush not being conformed consumed? I want to understand Moshe is you know the quintessential intellectual the Rambam calls him an oaf. And Hashem says, I'll take care of a line don't get close. Take your shoes off your feet because you're standing on sacred soil. In Medrash Rabba one of the metaphors in this revelation is that Moshe Rabbeinu was watching the pain and the fires that will consume the Jewish people. When Moshe was looking at a burning bush he wasn't only looking at a physical bush. He was looking at his people who thousands of years will be burnt murdered, tortured, slain. Like the Jews in the kibbutzim who were burnt shot killed [snorts] in barbaric ways. Their homes went up in

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2. 2:00flames. Many families who died embracing each other in their security reinforcement rooms or wherever they…
3. 4:02to say we might we are brothers we are sisters. We don't understand why we don't…
4. 6:06Hamas would love to murder like they did on Simchat Torah. Remember we're dealing here with…
5. 8:06naive without losing our power of love and connection and commitment and our will for life.…
6. 10:43literally endanger the life of my loved ones. Fear I can wait till later." It was…
7. 12:47I I but I I would just say, I would just say if you would ask…
8. 14:48is going to end, but I'm a nice person, I'm giving it to somebody else. He…
9. 16:52and I just embraced them and kissed them and we hugged them, we cried. And then…
10. 18:53We're all one soul. I want to hug you. V'ahavta l'rei'acha kamocha. The bottom line is…

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