Rabbi Shais Taub and Eli Nash: A Conversation About Shame

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

all right so let's jump in um i guess uh we've spoken about some pretty intense topics you and i but maybe this uh takes the cake we'll dive right in so should i give some background to uh our audience and how this yeah tell a story yeah yeah we'll tell the story so rabbi taub has uh now now that now that it's three it's a it's a it's an entity in three fundraisers so far charity campaign and each one around this time of year and the second one which is a little over a year ago uh robbie taub held a um all-day stream-a-thon we had learning and singers and special guests so i was one such special guest you are one of the special guests sally guests so now tonight i'm returning the favor so 12 30 or so on a saturday night we begin talking and i believe i started sharing about how your book on addiction god of your understanding of our understanding had impacted me and while i was talking i shared about my own addiction my addiction to sex my addiction to pornography and shortly thereafter day or so later i get an anonymous email from someone it's clear from the email address and i'm sure you've seen this a number of times that the email address was created specifically for the purpose of sending me this email yes and the gentleman says you know i signed on to rabbi taub's um streamathon i was hoping to hear either a share by him or a singer ali marcus but instead i bumped into uh one of his special guests quote unquote and there you are talking about pornography and i have an addiction i've tried to stop many times i haven't shared this with anyone

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1. 0:00all right so let's jump in um i guess uh we've spoken about some pretty intense…
2. 6:10secret a young adult and we as well got on the phone so when i shared…
3. 12:17it's talking about him he's so infinite that even if i were an angel it would…
4. 18:26fixed and certainly nothing that needs to be hidden it's just i'm trying to make you…
5. 24:33therapist i walked in when i came to his office within 10 or 15 minutes he…
6. 30:39being religious can exacerbate it and at the end of the day that's what i'm interested…
7. 36:46i think there's a study out of harvard uh somebody i didn't read it but someone…
8. 42:53so then i went to the other stream and okay i have to shut this down…
9. 49:04going to reach out to anyone so we're hoping that somebody will come across this video…
10. 55:14there's a lot of spouses watching this video right now possible and i think although i…

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