The Shocking Truth About "Tough Love" Parshat Beha'alotecha - Rabbi YY Jacobson

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I want to read to you a letter that I received by email. It was this Sunday or Monday, I don't know, yesterday or 2 days ago. And I'm going to read it to you verbatim. It came from a woman who participated last Shabbos. I was in Cleveland for what's called Kesser Nafshi. Kesser Nafshi, for those who don't know, was an organization that is that helps parents who are struggling with their children. And they make a few conventions, a few retreats a year over here in the United States of America, most of them in the tri-state area, in Europe, in Eretz Yisrael, and other places. And I have been at many of these Shabbaton retreats. They're really phenomenal occasions because you're talking about usually hundreds and hundreds, sometimes more than a thousand uh couples, fathers and mothers who are there for one purpose, to be able to see how to help their children, how to help themselves, how to help their family situation with the various struggles that they encounter with their children. It's a very, very vulnerable place. That's what's so refreshing about it. People are extremely vulnerable because they have been cracked open, as you say, as we say, by life circumstances. You know, sometimes you go to events and everybody's [snorts] walking around, you know, Prince Madonna, uh perfect, everything is impeccable and flawless. But over there there is a sense of authenticity and vulnerability. There was There was this past Shabbos, it was in Cleveland. It was a very, very memorable. There were a few hundred uh probably, I don't know, 200 or 250 couples. It was also a special program for teenagers, for siblings of children who are struggling. Um the next day, Sunday, I get an email from a woman who was obviously there. And this is what she writes to me.

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