Time for Our Community to Apologize to Survivors of Sexual Abuse

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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.

changed me in many many ways it opened me up to information to truth to reality to pain to uh torment and to how truth has been covered up and eclipsed and manipulated in ways that I have not known before or at least not known to that extent and to be able to see the evolution of of Ray of hope to be able to see what has become of this organization one decade later or close to a decade later a number of years later is really uh incredibly moving and inspiring I am so grateful that I have the privilege and the honor to address you I want to thank uh you for inviting me for giving me the privilege to speak to you and I want to thank everybody who joining us those who are joining us right now I see quite a large crowd and those who will watch or listen later when I was invited so many years ago to come to that Round Table discussion in a home in m not far from my home the common denominator of everybody around the table was that each of them has been through torment each one of them endured sexual abuse and to see the Courage the authenticity the strength of those girls and young women then at the time was nothing less than breathtaking and a inspiring even as the tears even as so many tears were shed and so much pain was exposed and I know years later when we're dealing with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people who are part of this organization of Ray of Hope the pain is real the torment is profound the coverups are sadly still happening and I want to talk to you

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1. 0:31changed me in many many ways it opened me up to information to truth to reality…
2. 6:29you have suffered terribly horrific horrific things have been done to you you didn't ask for…
3. 13:00we have not seized the moment we have abandoned so many of you we have failed…
4. 19:23selfish so self-centered so narcissistic and that's why why you need to learn to respect yourselves…
5. 25:41a a who never even apologized to you he never even did cha he never even…
6. 31:59know it happened all they know is they have crazy anxiety all they know is that…
7. 38:31gifts of healing that God gave us but we have to have the courage to process…
8. 44:59and reassure her that you're coming back to the zoom but you're not leaving her ever…
9. 51:24he grew up in the forest with nature and with and he taught everybody what is…
10. 57:39I know some of you felt that there was some Joy you know the body sometimes…

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