Rabbi YY Jacobson & Eli Nash on Webinar: The Shame Around Porn Addiction

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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.

he grew up in a very orthodox jewish community in the world of orthodoxy in the world of torah the world of yeshiva is the world of judaism and he suffered from porn addiction for many many years since he could remember before bar mitzvah age and he told me that in the email that despite the fact that in recent months and years especially since corona there's so much more open conversation about so many struggles that people have this issue still remains largely taboo and so many so many people who are struggling and suffering cannot find places where there is open real honest authentic talk about it that is just simply it's real it's just real without cover-ups and he asked me he asked he's would you reach out to ellie nash and maybe do an evening together and really explore he says people are dying for this he says you don't understand how many friends i have who are struggling with this people i grew up with in yeshiva people in my family and myself would you please do this and i sent off an email to ellie and i got a response i think around half an hour later and he said i'm in and here we are here we are beautiful so i don't know if you remember this uh this time maybe you do maybe you don't i was in yeshiva in montreal 2002 2003. and you came to forbrang i think they said you would show up at nine o'clock you probably showed up closer to midnight and uh verban went late or early

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