Yabloner Rebbe: The Rebbe of Change [Teshuva 5/5]

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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.

poet named philip schultz who has a collection of poems called the god of loneliness and when i saw a collection of poems with the title the god of loneliness i realized that this is how i needed to start a book about contending with sin and failure and i didn't know what would be inside of it and i opened up and i saw that there was one poem with the title failure and the poem is about the death of philip schultz's father and the poem begins as follows to pay for my father's funeral i borrowed money from people he already owed money to one called him a nobody no i said he was a failure you can't remember a nobody's name that's why they're called nobodies failures are unforgettable and this poem really jumped out at me because i think for so many people the process of teshuva the process of transformative change is contending with these two feelings the feeling of feeling like a nobody and the realization that just because you failed just because you have failures that doesn't mean that you are transformed into a nobody failures ultimately are unforgettable they're the catalysts that create us into the people who we are today it's the very friction it's the very point of momentum that drives us and creates our very sense of self and i think the story that we are going to share today is about an individual from jewish history who has now become much more well known but somebody who contended with that feeling that personal feeling of being a nobody and ultimately his own failures in his own life have now made him unforgettable and that of course is the story of the blunder rebbe one of the founders of kfar khasidim his life story was almost entirely unknown

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2. 7:11rebbe had abandoned his faith and although there was an affinity that they had to him…
3. 13:29hashem knows that i tried i tried but i was so broken by my failure that…
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