Yisroel Besser: How To Share Jewish Stories [Books II 4/4]

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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.

always you know grappling with is like do I really have what it takes do I really have the the magic to write something I think the reason why writing is so prone to imposter syndrome is that really anyone can write you don't need a fancy degree imposter syndrome I'm sure is in other fields it's in long shorts and medicine but at the end of the day if you're a doctor you know you had to go to school to uh you know finish get licensed and now you're a doctor so now licensed and now you're a doctor so now you might feel like oh who am I to do this sure sure there's some imposter syndrome but there is something unique about the Imposter syndrome that i s that I see that I hear that I feel personally among people who write like in the creative world when you're doing doing something creatively that there's no licensing for there's nobody who kind of says you know what you you are creative you should be writing you should be doing this and really throughout your life you kind of grapple with this voice of like you just feel like you're reaching into this bag to like you're reaching into this bag to pull out something the bag's empty and just miraculously you're hoping that something appears like there's this really famous story with Shyla it's the only rep Shaila Hasidic story that I know and I heard it once from an emotional Weinberger where he said that he would give out these bilkulas which is the Yiddish word for a holla roll and he would kind of give out these Hollow roles to everybody uh who came and uh and they came and they checked he's handing out holla rolls and they checked

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