The Day After: What Happens When You Come Off the Great High? - 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 moment after when you reach the peak of the mountain it's time to go home this evening we are going to explore a very common and frustrating component in many people's lives something that bothers people internally namely our powerful inconsistencies this is relevant I think to most people especially the people who are struggling with particular addictions or habits or appetites and they think that they have triumphed over them only to discover a day or week or month later how powerful their inconsistencies they tell the anecdote about three enlightened modern sophisticated rabbis who were discussing their respective temples on Yom Kippur the first rabbi says you know our synagogue is so progressive and open-minded and modern we really don't believe in people fasting and not drinking for 24 hours and therefore every member of the synagogue as he or she enters the temple Yom Kippur in the morning we give them a lovely sandwich with some sushi so that when they get hungry in middle of the day they can enjoy the delicious food the other rabbi says yeah that's not a big deal let me tell you about our temple near every seat we have a built-in laptop with wireless internet that way you get bored and middle of the services the rabbi sermon is too monotonous so you open your laptop you use your browser you check your email you surf the web and you educate yourself you do some other exciting things the 3rd rabbi says ah it's not a big deal let me tell you about our temple he says it comes this time of the year Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur the High Holidays we put up a big sign on the

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