LIVE: Haggadah for Addicts in Recovery

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[snorts] >> All right, welcome. We are live. Hey there. Uh this is a uh live presentation of the Four Cups Recovery Haggadah. >> [sighs] >> I want to talk to you about getting ready for Pesach as a spiritual experience, especially for those who have a recovery background. Doesn't [snorts] matter recovery from what. That's really If you know anything about recovery, it's not about the addiction. It's about the common solution. And the common solution for uh I'm not here to tell you what your solution should be, but for many, many, many people is a spiritual awakening. And the theme of God doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. That is really the main theme of below. Meaning not in the chat, but in the comments below so that people will see it. Okay. >> [snorts] >> Here's the YouTube um or here's the Amazon link I'm putting in the YouTube chat. Too long. I have to cut the link down a little bit. >> [snorts] >> Uh uh Here. Bam. Works. [snorts] Great. Okay. So, I'm not going to go through the whole Haggadah, but just uh some of the highlights. Again, [snorts] if you want to have the actual Haggadah at your Seder, remember this year Pesach starts Wednesday night. First Seder is Wednesday night, second Seder Thursday night. So, if you order this now, you'll have it in time. Someone's writing in the chat that uh shalom, I got your book God of

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1. 0:01[snorts] >> All right, welcome. We are live. Hey there. Uh this is a uh live…
2. 4:11A tight place, being stuck. >> [snorts] >> So, the ego gets big. It uh becomes…
3. 9:17they're constantly identifying as broken people. I I don't think that's the reality. The reality is…
4. 13:26especially if you're not used to it. I mean, personally I've led public Seders, meaning I've…
5. 17:32it was like, you know, people talk about keeping it green, right? Hanging around newcomers. Sometimes…
6. 21:07You get to a point where you realize it's not about I haven't figured it out…
7. 24:42the ayin is 70, so that's 570. If we subtract the value of the Hebrew word…
8. 28:44of this book, the Four Cups of Goda. You may have noticed that in this commentary,…
9. 32:20how cool it would be if you're sitting at a seder and somebody and they don't…
10. 35:58Tov and said, "Rebbe, I want to experience the revelation of Elijah the prophet." Baal Shem…

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