The Last Lecture of the Rebbe: How to Love (Parshas Shkelaim)

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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.

Welcome everybody. Thank you for blessing us with your presence this morning. Today's class is gratefully dedicated by Esther Roose Shalom and her family living in Eretz Yisrael in tribute to our Israeli army and all of the volunteer organizations helping our brothers and sisters during this time of crisis. Am Yisrael Chai. Thank you very much, Rabbitson Esther and regards to our holy land and a lot and regards to our holy land and a lot of bracha and hatzlacha. [snorts] I want to begin the class with a story that happened recently. There's a Jew by the name of Reb Elisha Loewenstern. Reb Elisha Loewenstern is 38 years old. He made aliyah with his family from New Jersey, Highland Park, New Jersey at the age of eight, grew up in Beit Shemesh. Shemesh. Lived in Israel in town called Harish. And uh very successful software engineer and also a talmid chacham. Every free moment he sat and learnt. In fact, his wife shared he would do his exercise routines and sometimes there's like a 30-second break between one routine and another routine. He Adam is there. And while catching his breath, he didn't waste those 30 seconds or minute between one routine and another routine, I was learning Mishnayos. Elisha was killed in Gaza uh just in the month of Teves. He was killed on Rosh Chodesh Teves, December 13th. He was 38 years old, and he left his wife Hadass, Hadass Lowenstern, and six children. Ages 10 months to 12 years old. He was preparing his 12-year-old, his oldest, for his bar mitzvah coming up. And uh

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1. 0:01Welcome everybody. Thank you for blessing us with your presence this morning. Today's class is gratefully…
2. 5:46always know simcha in your life. A huge hug to my David Alisha. I'm looking forward…
3. 12:27lechaper nafshoseichem to atone for your souls. This is the original mitzvah of machatzis hashekel yet…
4. 18:39Tof shin nun beis, 1992. I grew up in Crown Heights, the section of Crown Heights…
5. 24:48another person. Or maybe it's not that way. Maybe in our deepest place, we're very very…
6. 30:56dispersed. So, now when it rains, there's growth, there's vegetation, there's produce, and the Earth is…
7. 37:05based on I need a dot equals a sham. That's very true. But at the core…
8. 43:14validation from others as a compensation for the absence of real self-appreciation. Real self-love means I…
9. 49:19Hillel lived before him. 100 years before him. 150 years before. They attribute it to another…
10. 55:26one painting, bricks of one home, and notes of one composition. A composition, a ballad, a…

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