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How We Relate to the Darkness in Our Lives

6.6K views · Aug 7, 2024

Rabbi YY Jacobson

A discussion on confronting darkness and its spiritual implications.

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Okay, today's class is dedicated in honor of Kana Bas Clara. May Hashem protect you and the entire Jewish people and all of our brothers and sisters in Erit Isel and around the world during these challenging and also special times. Amen. Thank you very much. Okay, I also want to announce that this will be the last class. We're going to be taking our break for a few weeks. So, next Tuesday is tishabove. Next Tuesday, there'll also be a class for the entire community. A lecture here in the tent. Everybody is invited, men and women. They'll send out a notice with the details. That's how we do our tishabove lecture. So that's going to be next Tuesday which is tishabove. However, the weeks after that we're going to be taking a break for several weeks of the women's class and women's class and will resume and we'll send out the notices to everybody. If you are not on the WhatsApp list for this class, please sign up with Mrs. Miriam Klene who sends every week a notice about the class on Monday. Not sign up. Huh? Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah, please. Okay. Thank you very much. Sometimes Sometimes you could look like a look like a story that seems superficial or even strange and enigmatic, but it contains within it a tremendous amount of uh of depth and and relevance and lessons and empowerment in people's lives. And in today's class, we're going to explore a conversation that is recorded some 17 or 1800 years ago in the Gomorrah. It's a conversation

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