Power of the Shofar: How Animals Can Teach Us the Secret of Life

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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.

Good morning everybody. Welcome back [laughter] after a very long break. It's great to be here and I want to wish everybody uh an amazing new year to you and all of your loved ones should be an amazing incredible blessed year on all levels and all aspects. All of your heart's desires should be fulfilled materially and spiritually with health, happiness, prosperity and all the to all of you and Yeshua to all of us but Israel and the whole world. Amen. [snorts] So next week we'll also have a class be also a rishana class. The week afterwards as well be a yam kipper class. The question I have is and that's the [snorts] nashimutas have to tell me is yum kipper is Monday. So the [snorts] question is if the day afterwards there should be a class or not. I'm fine giving a class. Yeah. Okay. [laughter] What? Okay. I'm glad. [laughter] Yeah. [laughter] Okay. Fine. Perfect. So, next week there'll be a class based Hashem and the week after and the week after is there won't be a class. Okay. They tell there's a source sheets on the beimma if you want. There's one source sheet on the beimma uh uh text that we're going to use. They tell uh an old anecdote about uh about an immigrant Jew who came from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, settled in this country, didn't know much of the language or much of the culture. And one day an old friend, an old pal came to visit him. [snorts] And uh they spent time, a few hours catching up. They haven't seen each other many,

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1. 0:02Good morning everybody. Welcome back [laughter] after a very long break. It's great to be here…
2. 6:25could do it with your mouth and utter the sounds. But if you blow it with…
3. 12:45is a is a classical work by the balata on the paras and and the yam.…
4. 19:16metaphor. That ocean is the source of reality. It's the ion of reality. It's the divine…
5. 25:35what I'm essentially I'm doing, I'm putting the cap tighter and tighter and tighter. All separation,…
6. 32:00is. What's a dictatorship? Dictatorship is you don't exist. You exist for me. It's like the…
7. 38:26After 30 days, they're done. Boom. So on one level, we look at it and we…
8. 44:58the composer without any consciousness and struggle and contention. Huh? They don't need clothing. Yeah. There's…
9. 51:27that it should be able to be on display when really the whole Pacific is me…
10. 58:05as the rational soul of the human being develops from I and I articulate myself more…

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