You’re Not a Grasshopper; You’re an Angel

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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.

so today's class is dedicated in the loving memory of rahul bastrop shmuel labe halevi horowitz throughout her short time in this world she was able to inspire her husband her children and countless others to feel hashem's love in their lives and to serve hashem with deep and profound joy and simcha to hate and may her joy remain an eternal source of light and inspiration to the entire family and to all of you to all of us thank you very much so there was once an insecure comedian who got up to do a stand-up presentation and he basically began this way he said did you ever hear the joke about the insecure comedian and his response was it's okay you probably wouldn't have would have not liked it anyway in particular we deal with what is perhaps the single greatest collective failure of leadership in the whole torah let's remember the context the jewish people have finally been liberated from egypt they have managed to cross the sea they have defeated their egyptian foes they're on their way to the homeland not without some terrible stumbling blocks and failures in the interim there was the debacle of the golden calf the creation of the golden calf even before that they were um ambushed and attacked by amalek after that there was a national mourning for aaron's two sons who died on the great day of the inauguration of the sanctuary still after all of these setbacks the jewish people are on the cusp of entering at last the promised land but there is one more thing to do they have heard about this legendary country from their grandparents who have heard about it from their grandparents who have heard about it from their grandparents maisha painted a vivid picture for them

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1. 0:01so today's class is dedicated in the loving memory of rahul bastrop shmuel labe halevi horowitz…
2. 6:11because they are simply stronger more powerful than we are eretz yeah this is a land…
3. 12:20sometimes you need an ending but you also have to know how to end the gemara…
4. 18:34us that this was hashem's feedback now you may ask why is the first part forgivable…
5. 24:50it's very different people sometimes mistake humility as denying your strengths that's not the humility if…
6. 30:59labor nothing happened elio elijah did not appear at his front door the man was devastated…
7. 37:12i can't deal with seeing another perspective it's a beautiful expression in jewish philosophy cherish critique…
8. 43:21i've missed many flights it's annoying it's frustrating i didn't only miss flight flights get delayed…
9. 49:26painful to look at so my brain says it never happened because the brain is trying…
10. 55:36course i need to get the validation i need it's the only thing that will tell…

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