Think Good & It Will Be Good - Rabbi YY Jacobson

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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.

whose stories it is describing the emotional states of the characters we have to somehow deduce on our own from the story sometimes it's implicit sometimes all we can do is speculate even stories that are powerfully dramatic the story is told what happened in terms of the inner emotions and experiences and thoughts and feelings of the people involved it is rely portrayed and it is portrayed only when that emotion is relevant to the story itself it's relevant to the narrative itself an example YF is thrown into the pit by his brothers that he comes close they plot to kill him he doesn't know that he approaches them they remove that colorful tunic that his father has bought him as a sign a demonstration of love and they take this boy 17 years old and collectively they cast him into a Bo a pit a cave a sis a sistern which is empty no water what was he feeling what was he experiencing did he respond did he say anything in the story itself YF is silent we know nothing about his emotions we know the facts not the feelings later and this is very surprising because here the T does describe the emotions but only later and Paras Mikes two decades later more than two decades later 21 years later when the brothers come down to Egypt to purchase food and the prime minister of Egypt who is of course their lost brother YF recognizes them and accuses them of Espionage and incarcerates them for three days and then tells them that they can go home but one brother has to remain in prison till they come back with their baby brother binyamin they turn to each other and they say a we're guilty this is not the prime

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2. 6:17put that in any writers here you would leave out such a point figure it out…
3. 12:32suffering he sees their suffering and the first scene is he sees an Egyptian man beating…
4. 18:50spirituality dedication humility wisdom Etc there's only three stories to sketch his profile because the next…
5. 25:01said a serious student knows that this literally sticks out and it's like just know he…
6. 31:06ill so theed told him the four words in yish five words in yish track good…
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9. 50:06attitude and the human being's thoughts and feelings and emotions what we project actually has a…
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