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Why the Wisest Jew Committed Suicide: The Three Ego Traps

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

Class on Achitofel's life-altering messages before his death.

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he did okay okay one source sheet [Music] double-sided thank you for Distributing it for for women and men that's night which is Thursday night or Friday early morning 1 a.m. everybody is invited and the second day of Shu which is shabas shabas afternoon at 6:30 the second day of sh there will also be a sheer a lecture in t giml also for men and women and children everybody's invited to that as well so next Tuesday we'll have a class the night of Shas and the second day of shuis in the afternoon the larger classes are in t giml right here in the back with a M both men and women are invited today's class is dedicated by rebot gross in honor of as he writes my wife Dr Miriam gross Dr Miriam gross in honor of her birthday and she is an accomplished psychologist in our community helping many through their life struggles May Hashem Grant her wisdom Clarity to go from strength to strength wishing you and abundant amen happy birthday and thank you very very much and thank you today we're going to explore together the story of one of the most fascinating and enigmatic people in the tanak it relates both to the sixth peric of pavas the sixth chapter of the ethics of the fathers which is learned is chabas as we complete pavas the shabas before sh and it also relates to the whole holiday and experience of Shas as we will see so this is aish class it's a sh class it's a t class let's begin with the for First Source on your Source sheets this is the third mishna of the sixth chapter of the ethics of the father's that's going to be

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  2. 6:44straightforward mishna teaching us sometimes we have people who we learned from so much but sometimes…
  3. 12:57told them so kazal said we have a tradition number one he told them don't get…
  4. 19:25Sanhedrin he was number one and he had another 70 with him and in each generation…
  5. 25:34huh James Baker so I think I heard him say at his funeral he said that…
  6. 32:17should have intimate relations with your father's paction with your father's concubines those that he left…
  7. 38:33defeat and loss it's his own son of Shalom had infallible political acuteness an Acumen he…
  8. 44:50rebel against Mal I understand he is regretting his part in the Rebellion but now we…
  9. 51:00him of course later he became his greatest traitor he became his enemy but he never…
  10. 57:06one that's the element of malus some people's malus can extend in larger ways in broader…

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