Real Recovery Stories: Practical Lessons for Us All

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] good evening and welcome everyone my name is rabbi from goldberg and i have the privilege of serving as one of the rabbis the book raton synagogue and it's an honor to have you join us for this critically important conversation a conversation that we hope will begin tonight but will continue and continue at communities across not only america but around the world addressing a topic that is critically important for us to be concerned about sensitive to and to do everything we can to support going forward i'm truly honored to be joined by my dear friend moshe yachness who is the founder and director of onward living as well as several other rehab programs and a leader in this area and to be joined by my new friends moshe f and udb who have tremendous courage being with us sharing their stories their insights for us to learn from not simply to listen to uh voyeuristically or vicariously but to listen to and to learn from so that we could be best positioned to help people going forward we are really excited tonight to be launching a combination or a collaboration between the boca raton synagogue and onward living but we're hoping will really be a pilot program which is emulated and which is reproduced as we say around the country and around the world onward living is an amazing recovery uh program we'll hear more about from its founder moshe uh momentarily right now it's for men and that's why our panelists are men

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1. 0:02[Music] good evening and welcome everyone my name is rabbi from goldberg and i have the…
2. 6:12we'll we'll pass it take it from there thank you so yuri we're going to begin…
3. 12:24par some party drugs you know ecstasy mali um and once that started um that was…
4. 18:00put me in a position to be able to go back home to chicago and you…
5. 24:40uh throughout high school um around ninth grade i kind of came to like this realization…
6. 30:50constant struggle to even uh you know do the slide to do anything that was productive…
7. 36:23any of it done and i feel like everyone else has a playbook i don't have…
8. 42:32i i think it's very very hard to detect especially in younger kids you know trace…
9. 48:12child can ask a question the fact that even a young adult can ask a question…
10. 54:17for me for sure you want to be a part of you want to feel accepted…

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