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My Personal Evolution toward a More Embodied Experience of Life and Judaism

3.6K views · Jul 29, 2025

Rabbi YY Jacobson

A conversation on emotional growth and embodied Judaism.

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little bit of time in the making and you and I are both in a certain leadership responsibility and role where people are coming to you for guidance. You know, as a rabbi, which has morphed into a lot of their own personal problems and struggles and challenges. Yet we as people each have our own growth work that we need to do. So, I'd love to explore how we can navigate and how we can help mainstream the idea which is my main goal tonight is the idea of self-development that it's not just for those who have gone through these major traumas which you speak about a lot in in your talks these days and but for anyone seeking a more meaningful connected life and maybe get a little personal if possible and if things go well I would love to do this again. Beautiful. May God grace our conversation and may we be channels for uh more light to come into our universe. Heaven knows how much we need it. Yeah, we're in a we're in a time that we definitely need it and that's definitely going to come up. But the first place I would really like to start which I think is a good place to start because I think we're both uh I'd like to consider myself aid and I see that you know as I learned I'm a balu and I've been learning about uh the sacred wisdom of especially listening and watching as I mentioned to you before all your classes trying to understand more about what the real

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  1. 0:32little bit of time in the making and you and I are both in a certain
  2. 6:36means that one's emotions and one's internal life become aligned with the frequency of the divine.
  3. 13:01And and I'm not saying, you know, the messages are sometimes very helpful and people get
  4. 19:29feel that original uh you know soul coming down into the body and feeling the that
  5. 25:50mean in my life? How does this touch me? You could learn about Adam and Tik
  6. 32:09It's going to be dead. It's It's I don't know. I I was just like I
  7. 38:09way where we're going to spend our days and nights and relationships without repressing and without
  8. 44:42find God has gifted our generation with a tremendous amount of healing modalities. It's not a
  9. 51:28successfully acknowledge and embrace through the work that I had to face that I'm okay being
  10. 57:51breakthrough that ever existed in the world. I don't want to plug it in here, but

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