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Parsha Vayakhel: You Have Permission to Enjoy Your Life, Without Denying Your Pain

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

Parsha Vayakhel: You Have Permission to Enjoy Your Life, Without Denying Your Pain

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I want to thank very much Mrs. Miriam Klein and the the who instigated and initiated and gave birth to the entire process and of course to the leadership of the shul Lazer and Heather Scheiner and all of the staff for really helping out in this entire process cuz a lot of things have to be done over there in order to make it ready. So, thank you very very much. We're very grateful. Huh? Huh? It's a major investment. Yes, yes, yes. It's a major investment on their part and we're all very grateful, yeah. Okay, thank you. Thank you. So, we'll confirm base Hashem next week about the actual move date. Okay, today's class is dedicated by uh Liz and Dr. Michael Michelle Liz and Dr. Michael Michelle in loving memory of Liz's dear mother, Mrs. Shirley Levy Sarah Passel bas Reb Aryeh Leib alav hashalom on the occasion of her 60th yahrtzeit on the 22nd day of Adar, Chof Beis Adar Sheini. So, we dedicate this class in her loving memory. Um those of you who uh have been here have been here for many years know that Mrs. Shirley Levy worked with her uh worked with her uh her husband to turn the Monsey community into what it was today. They arrived in Spring Valley back in 1952. It's a couple of years before I was born. Huh? You look 20. And uh they founded it together what is known today as A Shaar. Besides privately lending help and encouragement to countless countless families in various stages of spiritual and financial need. Uh? I'm an alumna

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  3. 12:17was done with every donation. Why? Why? We already know that everybody donated. What's this accounting…
  4. 18:26right path? How are we to understand this dissonance, this inconsistency? Now, if it happened what…
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  7. 37:00that there was some dissidence between these two texts, but it doesn't make sense because if…
  8. 43:11metamorphosized into somethingness. The human being meets God, God meets the human being. From cosmological emptiness…
  9. 49:19moments of my life that that is actually my story? What do I mean that's my…
  10. 55:23over your life, even by saying, "This is who I am." Now, this is true about…

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