How to Integrate the Opposite Forces Within Yourself | Sfas Emes Vayigash #2

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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.

on the 11th day of tavis rabbi irving levy was a respected talmud a legendary balches and one of the earliest founders of the muncie community including the founder of the famous ashar school and a person who helped countless individuals and families to build their lives with the foundations of torah and your shamayim and shamayim and love so we commemorate his art site today and this week and may his light serve as an everlasting source of blessing and inspiration for his children all of his loved ones the entire family the entire community and all the people he touched among all of the jewish people and thank you so much um for your partnership and friendship for your partnership and friendship class is also dedicated by reborn joseph markov may hashem bless with a complete and speedy recovery and many many good long happy healthy years filled with joy nachas and continued growth in tehran thank you so much rabar joseph for your ongoing friendship and partnership and may all of these people be blessed but claudia near the video and also below the video and let's uh let's get right into it what we're going to be addressing today is really a very fundamental idea in life and it's the great question of how we how we integrate how do you integrate the opposite forces within yourself a person is rattled with contradictions and paradoxes and paradoxes how do we create unity and integration and it's not just about ourselves individually healing our own souls and psyches but it's also by uh domino effect society people communities families and as you know this is not an easy task this is something that humanity is struggling with for thousands of years until today you know despite our efforts you see often communities

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1. 0:31on the 11th day of tavis rabbi irving levy was a respected talmud a legendary balches…
2. 6:42and he says you're suspecting me of trying to do you harm but it's completely not…
3. 12:55it's no question that this this conflict wasn't just personal issue personal vendetta i just don't…
4. 19:03various situations where you have one singular source but then it's it's captured through different mechanisms…
5. 25:08apologize but really to feel it and say i apologize to take accountability the buck stops…
6. 31:13so now yosef and yehudah are really conflicted here about their path hashem and each one…
7. 36:53amputating a limb of a body or or the jigsaw puzzle right getting rid of one…
8. 43:04right now it happens right now in having compassion and creating space for everything that's going…
9. 49:16this pit and then we sell him into slavery we're going to do anything to get…
10. 55:26right but then afterwards you can go back and ask yourself what happened and learn from…

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