Rosh Hashanah Judgment Is Not What You Think - Rabbi YY Jacobson

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I've received many many letters from people, emails primarily or in conversations or feedback from very different demographics and one common denominator was the emotional difficulty that many people have during the month of Elo especially during the time of Slick and Rashana and Yam Kipper. Not everybody admits it and not everybody I'm sure experiences it but there are many many people and I know I had to work with this internally so I'm not just you know being a uh mouthpiece for others but it's also something I'm familiar intimately experientially the whole concept the whole reality of the days of judgment and the days of repentance and the days when the verdict is decided for the next year it puts so many people into a state of strength stress sometimes very conscious sometimes more unconscious but even when it's not conscious its symptoms are conscious a certain anxiety or or lack of of joy or certainly serenity and some people are even surprised that the issue could be raised of course somebody once told me these are horrible days these are horrible days I panic and if I take it seriously if I don't take it seriously I don't but if I take it seriously like of course so it's so ingrained in in in many people's lives. And the truth is it's very hard to have a a beautiful loving relationship with

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2. 6:08rupture. So I want to address this in in B is hashem in a somewhat thorough…
3. 12:25Every person and their entire life is evaluated and counted like one sheep passes one at…
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6. 30:54that's even your own. Imagine if it's all of humanity's of all of history everything available…
7. 36:59explains. And that is that deep deep down in our deepest core as we always talk…
8. 43:10this to them you think Rabbi Y with all due respect I did not agree to…
9. 49:21atheist like I'm an elephant. He's not he's has to deny God cuz he can't accept…
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