Rabbi YY with Chabad.org: The Inner, Vulnerable World of a Public Teacher

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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.

I grew up with a lot of anxiety, and I still don't know the exact source and reasons for it all. It's a work in progress, but but certainly part of it is at a very young age I was identified as a very talented communicator and speaker. I gave my first speech at a dinner of my Yeshiva at age five. And since then the career stuck to me. So whenever the class needed a speaker, I was there. So there was a lot a lot of pressure and as a result of that I didn't always have the inner ability and didn't always have the inner ability and the resource and even the knowledge to know how to always go back to myself and know, you know, where am I in this process? How am I feeling? How am I experiencing it? It's almost like the mouthpiece sometimes created a self-contained reality. Welcome to Ordinary People with Extraordinary Stories. I'm Chana Weisberg, host of this podcast. Joining me today we have an very special guest, Rabbi very well-known Rabbi YY Jacobson, who is a renowned speaker, Like where did it start? Where did it begin? Did you ever think that you would be so well-known, so famous, so out there, so popular? Okay, I still have to work out that question within my own soul and consciousness. I'm not the big Rabbi YY, but I know a little bit about my story, even though I'm still trying to figure out parts of it. But that may take want to hear all about that. Okay. I was born in 1972

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1. 0:00I grew up with a lot of anxiety, and I still don't know the exact source…
2. 6:07entrance. It was their way of surviving and functioning in a completely new country, new culture,…
3. 12:17maybe once you left that room you have what to share. You have stories to share.…
4. 18:26probably get better tools, more enhanced tools. And in a year from now, if I speak…
5. 24:36perspective that we all we all need to cultivate, and and and we hold space for…
6. 30:41happening. Tati is giving advice to teenagers. Tati, what does he know? What does HE KNOW?…
7. 36:49would why did you come here? And I shared this with him. I said, you know,…
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9. 49:10come to you individually without their husbands. I'm sure sometimes you meet a very intelligent woman…
10. 55:18subconsciously. So it's more lethal. At least if it's consciously, I can look at it. Now…

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