Confronting Your Pain: Were You Sold or Sent?

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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.

etc., and you go down, or Be Hillel, you start with one flame and you go up each day. And we spoke about two approaches of how to battle or how to deal with the inner darkness, which later came out in the more or less two paths of Freud and and Skinner, and really develop or focus on two ways, whether you focus on the on the darkness or you focus on the light. So, this is what this uh woman writes to me. I'm reading it verbatim. I found your shiur to be insightful as usual. You are very articulate and weave your shiur so masterfully, effortlessly, and beautifully, almost too beautiful, Rabbi Jacobson. Is right and dark as simple as lighting a candle, flicking a switch? I'm no stranger to inner darkness. I can personally attest to how easy it is to get consumed by one's darkness, so much so you go blind. I have been lucky enough to succumb to I have been lucky enough to succumb to the darkness, and for many years that darkness has clouded my perception. I know darkness, all right. And I also know how a little light can abolish a lot of darkness. I searched for that elusive light for many years, and in many ways I still do. That being said, I find it frustrating that as mystical and ethereal as the light may seem, nobody acknowledges or speaks about how that one little light can only burn for as long as it has

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