Women Parsha Toldos: When You Grasp the Dynamics of Your Two Souls, You Liberate Yourself from Shame

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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.

Okay, welcome everybody. Thank you for gracing us and joining us this morning. Today's class is dedicated by our dear friends Dr. Michael and Liz Michelle in loving memory of Rabbitson Sarah. Michelle Sar basel in tribute to her 14th yard site on the 23rd day of Rabbit. Michelle was one of the pioneers and builders of the Muny community. Together with her esteemed husbands, she remained an eternal source of inspiration, love, empowerment, blessing for the whole Michelle family, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and children of course and thank you very very much. Today's class is also dedicated by the Kagar Litzki family and in loving memory of Moshab who passed away a few days ago on the 11th day of Mareshman 5786 but may his soul always be present with you and be an eternal source of inspiration and love. We have one source sheet today and we're going to be addressing the internal conflict that exists in so many of our lives. It's part of the human fabric, human nature and the way it's reflected in the genesis of our history which opens up the story in paras. Let's remember the context. Yitsk marries Rifka but as the Tyra says in the beginning of Teldus Rifka could not have children and uh Davins because Rifka is an Akur she's barren and ultimately Rifka Hashem becomes pregnant. What happens next though the Tyra describes is seems like a very deep internal struggle and the struggle is described this way. It's the first source sheet that's Genesis 25 verse 22. The translation of this is the children struggled in her womb. Israu is a very um unique term and it represents some

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1. 0:02Okay, welcome everybody. Thank you for gracing us and joining us this morning. Today's class is…
2. 5:39and stamina to my energy. Rather, her question is very existential. Why am I? Whoa, that's…
3. 11:53Our sages famously say famous famously say in Medish and this is how Rashi interprets the…
4. 18:00Yuka is a little child. Yuka comes the word yik like nursing, but it doesn't necessarily…
5. 24:36lead. I need to go find the wholeness in myself. WHAT IS THAT GOING TO HELP…
6. 30:44she prepared the food ares. Now of course this is before the exodus of Egypt. So…
7. 36:53from spiritual a spiritual or psychological dichotomy, confused and tortured. There's actually two people. There's two…
8. 43:04of laws, this constitution. If that's the case, there are two souls, the divine soul, and…
9. 49:11There's ambivalence. There's doubt. And there's so much anxiety and blame and a need to detach…
10. 55:29sound and within seconds all of them go for cover, you know, and it's fascinating how…

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