How to Click Restart on Your Life - Address to South African Jewish Community

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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.

the yeshiva dotnet they tell the an old story about this fellow who came home from work this is pre coronavirus days and he comes home parks the car gets out comes to the porch and sees the door is wide open and immediately his heart informs him that there is absolute chaos and this is not a usual evening indeed his instinct is is authentic it's true he walks into the house and it's what you would call in Yiddish a harbin absolute pandemonium chaos desolate 'no struction confusion first of all there was ice cream all over the couch and strewn all over the dining room table and the living-room bookcases and expensive pieces of furniture all of his young children are in pajamas this is seven o'clock in the evening they're in pajamas running around the house is not just filthy it seems like the house was hit by a tornado there is food everywhere this filth everywhere the younger ones the younger babies who need to be tended to nobody tended to them so they are all and you'll excuse me in very dirty diapers the storms the smell the odor in the house is horrible wherever he looks tables are turned over the milk and the orange juice is spilled all over the place he can't believe what he's seeing he runs upstairs goes into the bedroom he's looking for his wife his wife is in her bed she's still dressed in her nightgown from last night very very relaxed she's reading a novel under a blanket on the pillow serene calm cool collective reading a

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