When Religion Becomes Toxic and Full of Lies

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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.

we're here to bring about change we can't continuously you know focus on the past or what things may or may not have happened we have to focus on the future and now we can all move forward as I've mentioned earlier breaking the taboo is extremely important in order to get this help and also making sure that if people want help we get them to appropriate places to provide the right help helping to increase awareness help helping to increase awareness program such as this one in the school systems in our shoes in our communities whatever it takes and of course training the parents and the community leaders to really realizing what's going on I know that we started late so I'm going to cut short my next intro just to say that this is a speaker who is no stranger to anyone who I've witnessed firsthand giving his life I've witnessed firsthand giving his life his soul for those that are less fortunate whether it's people suffering from addiction or abuse or just general this is a person who has real a love for any other Jew that is not something that is seen by so many people and the fact that he had a previous engagement tonight but still realized the importance of this and came in from M we know it's late but we uh pre appreciate so much that Rabbi YY pre appreciate so much that Rabbi YY Jacobson took this so Rabbi Jacobson thank you so much and please I know it's a serious event tonight and you've had quite a few serious speakers here so you'll forgive me if I begin with an anecdote the gor says that ra or Raba before he would begin a lecture or a she he would always begin with a

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1. 0:01we're here to bring about change we can't continuously you know focus on the past or…
2. 5:40zealotry the Garb of God but it's really politics and it's important for people to make…
3. 11:55truthful if we are not ready to challenge this then Young people whom we have been…
4. 17:37reason and yet this is what inspired Esther to go into the king and one of…
5. 23:57what it is and realize that God sends Souls on different different Journeys and some of…
6. 30:13when I look at an addict I can say look what a destructive life he or…
7. 35:53tra in order to do repentance and therefore he wasn't present in other words the beginning…
8. 42:10home every day missing so much water and the Chinese woman tells the broken bucket tomorrow…
9. 47:54not work for today that's what I feel like where we are today we have to…
10. 54:04help him they will pay for him you could go visit him but this is we…

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