The Haunting Story the Baal Shem Tov Told before Blowing Shofar - Rosh Hashanah Class 5786

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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.

and all the darkness and adversity should be transformed completely. the vanigla. We should hear only survas from him. Over the years, I've received many many letters from people, emails primarily or in conversations or feedback from very different demographics. And one common denominator was the emotional difficulty that many people emotional difficulty that many people have during the month of Elo especially during the time of Slickus and Rashana and Yim Kipper. Not everybody admits it and not everybody I'm sure experiences it but there are many many people and I know I had to work with this internally. So I'm not just you know being a uh mouthpiece for others but it's also something I'm familiar intimately experientially the whole concept the whole reality of the days of judgment and the days of repentance and the days when the verdict repentance and the days when the verdict is decided for the next year it puts so many people into a state of stress. sometimes very conscious, sometimes more unconscious, but even when it's not conscious, its symptoms are conscious. A certain anxiety or or lack of of joy or certainly serenity. And some people are even surprised that the issue could be raised. Of course, somebody once told me, "These are horrible days. These are horrible days. I panic. And if

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1. 1:35and all the darkness and adversity should be transformed completely. the vanigla. We should hear only…
2. 7:11good. Remember our biological template that Hashem created has one agenda. It's called survival and safety…
3. 13:25old days of jury duty. And uh and that's not even you're judging other people. You're…
4. 19:43which means I knew you before I formed you in the womb of your mother doesn't…
5. 25:19decisions. It's not I don't make it 90%, 80%, 50%, 10% and the rest is just…
6. 31:34Imagine parents who couldn't have children for decades and then they're they're blessed with one child,…
7. 37:48before GOD CREATED THE WORLD he consulted. Interesting. Who did he consult? the souls of the…
8. 43:24you're the ocean. You're a scythe. You're infinity. But Hashem wanted us to bring that out…
9. 49:32detached and is trying to survive. I want to be comfortable. I want to have nas.…
10. 55:45If you got through the next wall it was much more money. So, THE TREASURES WERE…

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