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Rabbi YY Jacobson explores Jewish teachings on healing from abuse and trauma.
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so let's begin let's summarize and continue the last piece of the minority gave an example of War and in battle [Music] in order to engage the enemy in order to defeat the enemy there's a strategy that's employed in which one might do something that seems like a form of surrender which has allow themselves to uh go into a place where they can be ambushed or hurt or beaten but it's all part of a plan it's all part of Escape where that brings out all of the forces all of the troops of the enemy into the open and once it's in the open an open field an open space they can ultimately come with their ferocious might and eliminate the enemy so even though somebody who doesn't understand or looks at it superficially says you're you're seating territory you're you're giving up you're giving you're allowing yourself to lose and be defeated you're allowing for casualties you're allowing your sworn enemy to win you that's only a very superficial perspective because they don't see full picture and really it's fully Central to a strategy which is the only way which you'll ultimately be able [Music] examples from chess maybe a more benign War if this gives an example of real war which is not fun put it mildly but uh chess is more of an intellectual War so sometimes you move your Pawn
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- 0:31so let's begin let's summarize and continue the last piece of the minority gave an example…
- 6:05some did book that that was inculcated into me that I'm now dealing with the trick…
- 12:41means take him down making words there's a third finish in the mattress a third common…
- 18:51you hurt me you destroyed my life and when I confront you and I say I'm…
- 25:04sourdough you put into a meal because yeah a little sweet what's wrong a little sugar…
- 31:14you can't be integrated it would have been too painful understand what that means this is…
- 36:58will finish but not them so at the surface what does it look like they're so…
- 43:07but still I'm not dominated by fear because of that I'm not dominated by fear because…
- 49:17this is such a difficult thing that itself could be but I know that sounds strange…
- 56:00but that's the only way I can actually spit out whatever I have to spit out…
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