Mark Moskowitz: Within: What Going to Jail Taught Me About Teshuva [Teshuva 5/6]

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

there's a moving idea from the svas MS the great khalidic leader of gear or the svas Emma says in many ways this is the entire process of the Yaman narayim of the high holidays that each of us in many ways continue this story of Yosef are locked up in prisons some of our own making some that have been made for us and we have this Suffocation and constriction in our lives and it's specifically through the process of teshuva and specifically through the process of the Yum no rayum that we're able to taste see some window some glimmer of redemption in the difficulties of our own lives I think like many people my first introduction to prison for those who growing up at the same time as me was watching the movie Shawshank Redemption it's an incredibly Powerful movie I remember the first time I watched it my parents didn't let me watch the opening scene which I think has a bit of sexuality involved but they did let me watch it even though it was rated R I think they made me skip two scenes I've probably since seen the entire movie but it's an incredible film that really is a reflection on what prison on what incarceration can do to a person on the dehumanization that happens to people who are in the prison system I happen to know people personally in my own life who have been to prison and more than the effect that it has on them because I've never really spoken to them directly about it but I've spoken to family members people who've had close family members who have been to prison and they're told that it takes on their entire family is usually very much Unspoken You know there's this line in Shawshank Redemption that always sticks

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1. 1:38there's a moving idea from the svas MS the great khalidic leader of gear or the…
2. 7:22grew up in sort of your typical average secular home a reform background I did have…
3. 13:45would call on mutual funds and hedge funds and try to have them buy stocks through…
4. 20:09either you cut a corner or you outright committed a crime like how does that begin…
5. 25:53early days of my life when you don't have it in your DNA to be authentic…
6. 32:10removed from society type of crime yeah so yeah so in my head I'm thinking just…
7. 38:28there it feels like why is the universe stacked against me yeah and this is what…
8. 44:17and then I'm taking all of this all of my past into my current day I'm…
9. 50:34you know it like it kind of really eased the tension and you know I said…
10. 56:54know because you worked in the warehouse so you got when bananas when the food came…

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