How Do I Know When to Trust a Rabbi? - By 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.

[Music] the rakov CR was known as a person who for every idea he had the perfect story there are dozens and dozens and dozens of metaphors anecdotes Parables mum that are attributed to the dub mag so somebody once asked him he said to him how is it that you always come up with the perfect story and Parable to match every insight and idea and of course the DU mag smiled and said for that I'll tell you a story or a parable he said there was once a fellow who went to an Archer site where people shoot arrows and uh another person who approaches this the target afterwards sees that this man literally managed to hit every single arrow in the perfect uh what is it called uh the bullseye never missed the bullseye so he asks him he says uh how did you manage to achieve this type of skill this type of uh precision an impeccable aim to hit the bullseye every time so he says I'll tell you how I do it first I shoot and then wherever the arrow hits that's where I make the circle and therefore I never miss the target so the DU mag says I don't start with an Insight I have stories I start with a story I shoot I have a story now I draw a circle around my story I have a story I say oh this story can explain this this Parable can explain this I don't begin with the Insight I begin with the story there is a very uh strange phenomenon or exchange that we have in par really relates

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