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Days of Love or Days of Trauma? - Rabbi Jacobson with Fresh Start

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

Days of Love or Days of Trauma? - Rabbi Jacobson with Fresh Start

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Good morning. Okay, good evening everybody. Welcome. I guess we'll be starting momentarily. Thank you. Fresh start. Thank you for everybody joining us this evening. Days of love or days of dread and trauma. That's our question this evening. I think everybody can be very open. >> We'll give it another minute or two. Rabbi W. >> Yeah. Yeah. Take your time. I'm just welcoming everybody and uh we'll start at another minute or two >> and thank you for the opportunity and this letting people know. >> Let everybody feel free to ask anything that's on your mind and your heart. The point of this discussion is for it to be authentic and genuine. It's interesting. you know, some I got an email the other day from a yeshiva boy in in Israel and he had some very emotionally tough questions and when he got them out of his system he writes in parentheses he says now I really feel like a heretic so how many people are scared to ask their questions you know they don't want to be called by a negative name and it just sits it sits and it fosters it it it simmers it fers resentment so please be open and honest. >> We are We are definitely going to take you up on that. >> If we can all be honest, >> heretic would be an upgrade. >> Yeah. >> You know that was right. >> Okay. So, welcome everybody to another

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