Lehallel
Authorizing approved playback

Torah · 27:38

Amazing story - Figure yourself out before you begin dating

104 views · Jul 23, 2020

Dr. Jack Cohen

Ask this shiur

Ask in your own words — the answer is the exact moment this shiur speaks to it.

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Dr. Jack Cohen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

hi everyone it's rabbi dr jack cohn with the dating and shalom bias series today i'd like to examine the odyssey of a young man who went through dating and he's going to teach us so many wonderful lessons about how it's important you got to figure yourself out before you get into shidduchim you got to know who you are and what you represent so you know what to look for by the way before i start i'd like just to let everyone know that thank god i love helping people and especially in dating mentoring and shaman bias mentoring if you need any help in any way from anywhere in the world whether you're in the middle of a relationship you'd just like to get a second opinion and make then making horrible mistakes so it moves you to you know if you need help seek it you'll avoid much costlier mistakes later on so let's start with this young man's story before anything shidduchim he writes i've been under the naive illusion that because of the crisis girls who jump at the opportunity to go out with a nice firm boy after all the numbers are with the boys right isn't it isn't it out there common expression there's seven or eight boys to every girl and i will have no shortage of dates the way i understood it if you're all a boy entering the pasha and you're basically normal in any sense of the world girls would be desperate to go out with

Jump to a moment

  1. 0:00hi everyone it's rabbi dr jack cohn with the dating and shalom bias series today i'd
  2. 3:03i thought to myself that's not me joaf i'm not that kind of a guy i'm
  3. 5:35the reason why it didn't work out so we can better prepare for the next round
  4. 8:09that that person has to be ideal now let's examine what that means that you're marrying
  5. 10:41not only was entering that field a responsible decision it was also a clear statement of
  6. 13:12and of course beautiful then she paused here's the thing she said the girl was previously
  7. 15:43year older and i convinced him i said she has impeccable needles give it a shot
  8. 18:18my dating coach made some inquiries herself and advised me to stay far away a friend
  9. 20:51raising an eyebrow i don't know i mean i'm looking at your resume and i see
  10. 24:28system is broken people like to talk about how pictures are the problem or resumes are

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.

More from Dr. Jack Cohenevery one approved
Why is this here?

Before this shiur could appear, it was reviewed against one written standard — the same standard for every video in the library, no exceptions and no algorithm deciding on its own. It is listed under Torah. If you believe something here does not belong, tell us — every challenge is read by a person.

Get the week’s best, by email

One email a week — a handful of approved shiurim and music. No account needed.

Know a family who would use this? Give a Lehallel membership.