Rabbi YY Jacobson Farbrenging with Children #8: Stories, Riddles, Meditation, Q & A

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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.

let me begin with a beautiful story and I'm actually going to begin with two stories. Each story has a special message. The first story I want to share with you is a story that involves one of the great sadikim in Russian known as the His name was Mendelin. He lived in the city of Loavic in Bellerus. He passed away the 13th of Nissen right before Pes in the year which would be 1866. Those days that time when there was a fire in a village or a city it was often very very devastating. Most of the homes were built from wood and they would be easily consumed by flames. You didn't have the fire department like you have today. You didn't have the equipment to extinguish flames that you have today. Even today, it's often devastating, but then it was often very devastating. And uh there was a big fire in the city in the town where the Sedic lived and a lot of the homes were burnt down. And when they started to rebuild the homes, they made what's called a special for the seven for the groundbreaking of the new homes that they were building for the and people came together to celebrate the occasion. and the Tamakad who was the third Reb of Kabad he was the grandson of the Balanne of Leyadi his daughter's son he sat there there was a chair and a table and he was sitting there and the were gathered around him and he turned to them and he said I want to

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1. 2:03let me begin with a beautiful story and I'm actually going to begin with two stories.…
2. 7:10to and he said would you be able to persuade your other to give me another…
3. 12:53The were smart. They understood that the was telling them what is happening at the moment.…
4. 18:36strength to do whatever you have to do. But you also have to recognize that when…
5. 24:48lightning. There's also thunder. So, we have the scientific explanations when and why thunders happen. But…
6. 30:34let's go to the next. How do Okay. Seven and a halfyear-old boy wants to know…
7. 36:44that don't happen and then you get frustrated when you don't see those expectations coming to…
8. 42:25heard of anything and I didn't say no, there's no connection to it. But when I…
9. 48:02question where a person is in life and what is really best for them at that…
10. 53:44braha? Before we go swimming when you're still dressed in clothes make a braha. You're going…

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