Moses' Worst Crisis: How We Inspire the People Who Inspire Us

Dr. Berk On Freud and the Rebbe

You didn't want to supply the group the additional resource?
http://www.jhberke.com/Freud_Lub_Rebbe.htm

- Most people I sent it to seemed to have enjoyed and respected it.

It was referenced in Alan Brill's work on Reb Tzaddok HaCohen " Thinking G-D"..
All the best looking forward to tonight.

Shmuel

jhberke.com

I noticed one thing that surprised me, in endnote 9, it says something about the Zohar that I'm not sure is correct.

Dr. Berk's Analysis

I read his paper on the meeting with Freud. I do not think his observations are correct. All of the ideas discussed in the Rebbe's discouses henceforth have their sources in discourses of earlier Rebbes in previous years.

Controversial Picture

Is it respectful to place a picture of the Holy Rebbe Rashab right next to a man famous for his unclean and perverted theories?

We cannot attempt to fathom the secrets of a Rebbe, of a Moses.

Feedback: Rabbi Jacobson is greatly appreciated

I would have thought that the Alter Rebbe, in his Tanya, might have covered such an inyan, of the tension between the heart and the mind? Did not the Alter Rebbe cover such dilemmas? Not to take away from the reason the Rebbe Reshab felt the need to visit Dr Freud, I was under the impression from the Chassidus I have learned, that the Farbrengen was one such way of receiving feedback.

Thank you

Rabbi this class tome was also cold water on a weary soul. Yasher Koach

Freud and the Lubavitcher Rebbe

As a psychotherapist and baalat tshuvah, I am very happy to have heard this talk that gives credit to Freud, the father of modern psychology, and in a way that integrates psychological concepts into your Jewish teachings. We all do need the kind of feedback from others that validates our contributions and suggests that we are here on earth and for a reason. Thank you, Rabbi Jacobson!

masterful

1. Tonight's was a masterpiece.
2. In the booklet Bakodesh Pnima, R Sholom Ber Gansburg tells a story of the Rebbe in his room complaining that he never gets anything done and is always behind, and how he responded about the hundreds of Baalei Teshuva, etc.

why?

it certainly is tough to get feedback. why?

Dear Rabbi,
You always deliver us profound message from above. But this time my personal appreciations that you managed not to dilute it with a drop of tears of your own…
Be blessed with cold (warm) water for your souls and a lot of Nahas from your followers as well as from your own children.

In the spirit of the shiur, Rabbi Jacobson, you are a master (Rabbi, teacher, thinker...)of shiurim - indeed, a non-pareille.
Even though I myself often wonder if students realize that teachers of all ages and experience enjoy positive feedback, perhaps I'm guilty of the same chisaron regarding your shiurim."Rabbi Jacobson needs my...?"
So, consider my words just a snippet of positive feedback.
As a student of psycholoy and psychoanalysis, I applaud your synthesis of Freud (deemed treif by so many who know nothing about his invention --The Talking Cure, and all that goes with it).
Clearly you separate the chaff from the grain. To bring the Rebbe Rashab, no less, as a visitor to Freud's famous house in Vienna, brought psychology into a sphere where it is often needed badly and dismissed as "meshugeh and apikorsus." I read the "G-dless Jew" by Peter Gay, and Freud by no means rejected his roots. He did not practice but was obsessed with his grandfather's piety and questioned why G-d chose him, "A G-dless Jew" to discovere a science that Hashem had already invented thousands of years before.
I also was dumbfounded by the humility and brilliance of the Rebbe Rashab to feel down because he didn't think he accomplished anything and to go to a secular doctor for advice.
Looking forward, as always, to Monday once again.

Amazing

The classs was phenomenal! Amazingly well presented and articlulated. Isn't it amazing that the Rebbe seeing the impact of thousands of shluchim in every corner of the world and the thousands he personally touched every week could still state -"lihelvel vlarik" because Moshiach hasn't yet come! What was the meaning of that?

PS I hope that YOU get the feedback to know what a HUGE impact you are having!!!

A request

This was an amazing class. I think this type of Torah can inspire hundreds of thousands and I want to suggest and request from all of you listening and watching to send links of this week's shuir to all of your friends and contacts. Let them "taste" this Torah, let them be inspired and uplifted. This shuir needs to get much more promotion and exposure. And each one of us can do our part.

Thank you Mr. Schottenstein for your helping making this extraordinary event happen.

feedback

Rabbi Jacobson;
You are a source of inspiration to me and my wife, from the moment I heard you years ago till today. Every Shabbat, we read your commentaries about the Parasha and try to hear your lectures in this setting.
Thank you, G-d bless you.
Daniel Burstein

a groisse yasher koiach from Brazil

If people agree or not with all that was said it looks like it doesn't matter (so much), as long as they stop and start thinking more about what is life's ikar and tofel... Just to make us think, rethink, think through or whatever - this is the key to the "inspiring spark" which makes us move forwards!
Regards from your listeners in Brazil (some of whom are using it extensively in their droshos, etc...).

I'll really like to know if you had the time to read through http://www.jhberke.com/Freud_Lub_Rebbe.htm and what do you think about it.

hatslocho rabo umuflogo im the Brazilian retreat (unfortunately I will not be able to be there)!

Thanks

Your web classes are absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much for being such a source of inspiration and hope.

Feedback from students

Very powerful lesson from Chumash and those 2 stories u mentioned. I called your Aunt Ceril Lispker last night to thank her.

A little feedback. Its interesting. Rabbi David Wichnin A”H mentioned on a tape, that when a teacher sees a student paying attention and their eyes are not wandering, this increases the Hashpa to the Talmid, This sounds like what you mentioned yesterday. The teacher (Moshe Rabenu) wanted feedback. Some might even use the word validation.

Yasher Koach

Rabbi Jacobson,
In line with the crux of this class I wanted to thank you for being a constant source of moral and emotional strength to so many from various disparate backgrounds - serving as a unifier of the Jewish people. The RBSHO should bless you with the strength to continue in this manner ad eiah v'esrim ubias hamoshiach kodem.

thanh you

i just feel corect to let know the feedback from your classes , in one word : amazing , keep up this magnificant shiurim !

Awesome

Thank you so much for your weekly classes online.
I download it to my phone and listen to your class in the car while driving my kids to school.
I never miss a class!
You have truly taught me so much!
Although I study regularly sichos etc. I truly enjoy the way you deliver it and I am inspired every week by your message!

Torah's inspiration.

The notion that one of the greatest Jewish leaders could experience such despair and depression that ultimately could make him pray for his own demise is something that is quite extraordinary. Ordinary for some - extraordinary for someone of the caliber of Moshe.
Yet this is precisely the reason why we as a people have attached ourselves over the centuries to the torah. We identify with the trials and tribulations that have affected some of the greatest people in our history, to see their vulnerability and the way they expose themselves in the face of a test shows us that despite their greatness, they never cease to be human.

Uplifting

This week’s Internet shiur was particularly uplifting and complete. Just inspiring those who inspire.

Keeps Me Going

I really enjoy, and get inspired every time I listen to your lecture.I am in Vienna, and every week we learn with jewish girls in the university, very often I give over your lecture.

So thank you so much! the inspiration keeps me going the whole week!

Thanks

Thank you Rabbi and thank you
David B. Schottenstein for all of this. Amazing and great!

Ramban

It seems that there is a contradiction in the words of the Ramban.
First he dismisses the necessity for the seventy elders saying, the Jews will still only approach Moshe because he took them out of Egypt.
In his last explanation he continues, perhaps when the Jews see the elders prophesizing they will not only approach Moshe but congregate around the elders to fulfill their desires.
What changed in this last scenario that the Jews would all of a sudden congregate around the elders despite the fact that Moshe took them out of Egypt - like the Rambn suggested above?

V'lo Yasafu

Why would the explanation on these words be any different than the expression used by Mattan Torah - "Kol Gadol V'lo Yasaf" which we know meant an unceasing voice or proclomation?

Freud was my mother's first cousin...

Bs"d
I am baali teshuvah Lubavitch for over thirty years and a licensed Social Worker and counselor who worked for two years in a lock down criminal mental hospital .
Freud and the Rebbe Rashab apparently influenced each other for the good, as Dr. Berk writes in his article. The Rashab must have some influence on Freud, and vise versa. We must also remember the Lubavitcher Rebbe had degrees in physics as well, so why is this meeting such a stretch of the imagination? Truth is truth, and sometimes we need to dig with the help of other yiddin', especially the tops in their field, so what? Freud's dad's family were frumme yiddin'.My mother once told me she was Freud's first cousin, but I don't know from which side, but I don't feel so ashamed after reading this article by Berk.

BTW, My grandmother's private math tutor was Professor Albert Einstein in 1913, who came Friday nights as a close family friend to the mansion she grew up in , but I don't know if they made kiddush. She said the Professor had a fantastic sense of humor.

toda raba from rehovot

thank you for ligthing up the
the most complicated corners of the parasha every week

critique

Do you ever get negative critique? And if yes, would you post it?

To Wondering

Our policy is to post all comments, as long as they are written in a respectful way.

Question

My question is on the shiyur. Listened twice now… What I am not clear about is why in this weeks parshah does Moshe Rabeinu finally hit the roof? In the previous complaints it was also about food? Is the point that he finally just “had enough already?”

To Nechemyah

Before they did not have the tremendous revelation, geluiom, of matan torah and the mishkan, so he could tolerate it. But now after all the geluim.... all the revelations, and still no movement!

Thank you Mr. Schottenstein

I want to express my sincere appreciation to David B. Schottenstein for making this most amazing Torah class in the world happen each week, literally inspiring and infusing tens of thousands each week. Each one of the thousands who hears these classes gives them over to at least 10 people. I know many a rabbi who use this for their weekly classes. This may be the most popular class in the world each week and I salute the Rabbi, his team and Mr. Schootenstein for this vision, passion and resolve.

I will splash cold water on my face and remember...!

Thank you Rabbi Jacobson and thank you David Schottenstein and family for this wonderful talk. As someone in a northeastern Canadian desert, where the community does not organize proper farbrengens, this year even Gimmel Tammuz has been overlooked, your classes keep the neshama alive. May you have lots of hatzlacha and always make your plane ! Amazing Inspiring and great! Shabbat Shalom! I will splash cold water on my face and remember...!

I Loved

I very much enjoyed it. Loved the idea and its most relevant message. A groyse yshar koach for the continued inspiration and enrichment.

The video is painful to watch

To Rabbi Jacobson, Shlita

I have written about this before. I am a HUGE fan! I'd love to watch these lectures. But I find it painful to watch because it keeps stopping and a circular thing appears across your face and the video stops and starts again.

It's gotten much better, but I know you can do better than that and make it play normally.

PLEASE!

We Love

I watch your classes with a bunch of students, and as you said in your last class always give feedback, event to people who are very successful.

WE LOVE your classes.

I would like to sponsor one in the near future IYH>

Thanks