Infertility: Confronting Fear, Pain, Loneliness

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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.

the yeshiva dotnet some of you have been struggling for years and you went through many many treatments procedures promises hopes and as a result of that that's so hard to maintain joy spiritedness simcha Beach often and muna there are many difficult emotions there there are many difficult emotions there are many diverse experiences from one extreme to another extreme and how is one supposed to deal with all of this how we to confront it and it's here that I think it's very important to emphasize a few points let me begin with point number one there is no emotion that you number one there is no emotion that you have to be afraid of and I want to explain to you what I mean a human heart is filled with a lot of emotions we get into different moods our body experiences different sensations sometimes we feel were up there sometimes we feel we're down there let's quote over time Ellison to hilum that safer that captured and captures the safer that captured and captures the full gamut of human and Jewish emotions for thousands of years yet the ye'd offensive into hilum every jew finds himself or herself into hill and of it is called NIMH is Mira C strong he is the composer of the Jewish people the sweet singer of the Jewish people and that's why into him a lot of us say tell him we don't really understand what we're saying because it's an ancient rich Russian kurdish hebrew that many people don't understand extremely poetic

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