Coronavirus: Teenager's Program #4
Rabbi YY Jacobson
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Rabbi YY Jacobson live with teenagers, Thursday, 13 Iyar, 5780, May 7, 2020, 9:30 PM EST
Coronavirus: Teenager's Program #4
Rabbi YY Jacobson
Dedicated by Lore Steinmetz, as a zechus for refuah sheleima bekarov to all Cholim in Am Yisroel.
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Rachel -3 years ago
loook at my texts-
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Rachel -3 years ago
please
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Rachel -3 years ago
Using Gmail with screen readers
SearchComposeLabelsInbox16StarredSnoozedSentDrafts94More MeetNew meetingJoin a meetingHangoutsHangouts More15 of 324Question to Ask the RabbiInboxMirel OrlofskyThu, Jan 7, 8:11 PM (5 days ago)to meRelationships: In Judism, What is a good relationship to have with one's divorced parents?
Good & Evil:
Prayers: How can I keep praying for something I want i.e. peace between my divorced parents, and when it doesn;t happen, I get upset?
I want to make friends however, I've been given physical and mental challenges that take up a lot of my time. Plus with Covid, it's very difficult to meet anyone. Why did Hashem make me this way and make it so hard to make a friend to talk and listen to??
Moshiach: & Miracles: Why does the world hate Jews? Jews learn Torah to know what we are allowed and not allowed to do. Non-Jews don't want to know this. They want to make up their own rules. Jews become the conscience of the world - explaining what is right and wrong according to G-d.
Welcome Hashem Into Your Life - Thank Him Every Day!10Rachel kornblum8:16 PM (8 minutes ago)---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mirel Orlofsky
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#CluelessGirl -3 years ago
It is ok to have a non intimate relationship with someone of the opposite gender in your teens? just to be friends because i really enjoy his company i dont have any attraction to him in any way and would never consider marriage.
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Watch part 1
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Sam -3 years ago
Course not god thinks its bad for you
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lost soul -3 years ago
wdym? y?
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Sam -3 years ago
God, the grand master of this world, decided, in his great knowlage, that boys are supirior and must not mix with girls.
To think otherwise would be heretic and questioning his wisdom.
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Bracha Bas Fradel -3 years ago
I am not a teenager but I did listen to your answer to the girls about the role of Jewish women. I feel very strongly that the core of the question is not being addressed and I would like to help clarify what the question is and the direction that I think is needed in order to reach the girl's question. As early as in the fourth day of creation, when Hashem made the two luminaries and then made the moon smaller and it complained, Hashem tried to appease the moon by giving it the stars, etc and even then as the Midrash says that every Rosh Chodesh we bring a Korbon to atone for making the moon smaller. On the other side of time, it says that when Moshiach comes, "Isha tesovev gever" , It is clear to all, that the world is being run as a patriarchal society. It is a fact that the most important thing to do is to learn Torah, and a woman is not commanded to do so and thus until the time of Moshiach plays a supportive role to men. Of course, women are important, but in order for peace to reign in a girl's heart, truth must be acknowledged. Even if they don't like it, they like less to be appeased with what they see is not the whole truth. Just one simple fact that the Torah is always addressing men, and only specifies when addressing women is an indication of it. There is so much to be said about it but my purpose is in asking you not to be apologetic but rather this is how Hashem, in His infinite wisdom wants it to be.
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Libby Green -3 years ago
That's not true. and if it is why does god allow marriage.
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Anonymous -3 years ago
hi as rosh hashana is coming up soon iyh i was wondering..am i supposed to ask sum1 for forgivness what i did top them if they dont know abt it? i dont know what to do..thanks so much
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Anonymous -3 years ago
qustion for rabbi yy
the qustion before was by someone i know
she is very chatty as u can tell what she basically what she wanted to say is
1. is there a shidduch crises?
2. does everyone have a bashery
thankk u for all you do
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sam -3 years ago
Any one can choose to marry who they want there is no "crisis" they just want you to marry eirlier because to many are going and getting an education about the wider world and wake up during that time.
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WHAT IS THE SHIDDUCH CRISES -3 years ago
what is the shidduch crises? does everyone have a bshet
what is th eshidduch crises? does everyone have a bashert?
i mean cmon everyone ahs their own opinion this issue, its because of this its bc of that. i mean is there actually a crisis? people claim there are not enough GOOD boys and too many GOOD girls, cmon GOOD is suh a stupid word everyone has their own definition of it. its like the word normal. yeh, so maybe you have to comporomise, by hey isnt that what life is all about? should a girl worry aboout it when she is in shudduchim? and anyway doensnt everyone have a bashert? actually speaking abt basherts does everyone actually have one, how can u miss one? do ppl who die young (lo alenu) have one, do ppl who never marry (lo alenu) have one???? dead confused here pls answer me, i welcome suggestions from anybody. oh and btw thank u so so muhc for this amazing program its so cool, half th questions i have never thought of but the way u anwerit make it make so so muhc sence. anpther awesome thing is half the questions on here re so cringeworthy to ask on public, like i do not think i would get up in a class and ask this or maybe i would, i dunno... nayway thank a mill
a teenage girl in england!
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me -3 years ago
yes is it true all of this shidduch crsis thing ... me and that person where both wonering..can u pls explain???/
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anon -3 years ago
hi sara k,
i know u
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ben l -3 years ago
hi
i think i also know her!
does she have blavk hair and braces?
around 15 yrs?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
When is the next program in this series?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
When is the next program in this series?
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Chaim -3 years ago
Caim
When is the next class
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Is rabbi YY doing a program tomorrow?
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Esti -3 years ago
Nope. I asked him He said he's taking a break
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Is rabbi YY doing a program tomorrow?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
let say i am reading or listening to stuff thats inappropriate for a jewish kid, and i know it and i want to stop but i am enjoying whatever im doing. how can i strengthen myself to stop?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Thank you rabbi yy for all the amazing lectures! They have really helped me, especially the ones on emunah and bitachon!
My question is; i really want to shteig in avodas hashem and do tshuvah on all my aveiros, but i have a problem with the step of azivus hachait and i would really like some guidance!
Thanks in advance!!!!
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Hackel family -3 years ago
Thank you so much!!!
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Anonymous -3 years ago
is it normal to dream about all the attention you're gonna get after you die?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
i'm only in my teens so i'm thinking maybe it's too early to think about that? but i really think about it every day...
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Anonymous -3 years ago
can you trace where all questions come from? Like who submitted them, through ppl's email address?
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Stuffed Animals -3 years ago
what is chabad?
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sam -3 years ago
stuff and noncence, you know what it is
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Kayla -3 years ago
how can it trust rabbis when so many of them keep contradicting each other? It's so confusing. everyone says something else and it gets me really confused. How do I know who's right and who's wrong? Or are most of them right and I just have to choose whom to follow?
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Sam -3 years ago
You can be sure that they wont contredict themselves about giving tzedokoh. Especialy if it goes to his wages.
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Yael -3 years ago
Thanks you're awesome. I was so disappointed when you said you won't do a program this week :(
What makes you decide whether to address a specific question or not? I submitted at least ten since you started this program a month ago and none of them were addressed yet. I want to know, is there something wrong with them, or maybe it's not interesting/relevant enough? I mean, I'm a little disappointed...
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Sarah -3 years ago
Is the Rebbe really Mashiach?
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Abra -3 months ago
Sarah, and those wondering:
The Mashiach will be from one linage from the great House of Jacob (fire) and The House of Jesse (burning embers) whom King David is decended. This Mashiach will be known as the Lion of Judah (once known as Ariel), whom will be the future annointed King of Israel (Unicorn) and Judah (Lion). Judah to be restablished in Israel. In regards to Rebbe, no, as no man is allowed to choose or nominate the Mashiach from the royal linage, as only the G-D of Abraham has this divine right to choose the righful future royal Mashiach heir. As was done in the days of King David.
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Mickey Mouse -3 years ago
I have an addiction to music but I don't see how it harms me. Everyone says it's crazy how I walk around in headphones all day but I really don't see it that way. it's not like an addiction to drugs or alcohol or anything like that. The worst way in which it can harm me is by possibly damaging my hearing when I'm seventy years old. So what? I'll wear hearing aids when I'm seventy. Big deal. Is it still bad that I"m so addicted? I'm really having trouble seeing the problem in this. please explain why everyone thinks this is destructive behavior.
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sam -3 years ago
I always wonderd. How does micky mouse find big enough earphones?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Question:
Thank you Rabbi YY for all your great programs during coronavirus!
Rabbi YY has spoken much about how Hashem infinitely loves us and how we should show utmost love to Hashem and to every single Jew. I have learnt that love must be prefaced with fear of Hashem. What exactly does fearing Hashem entail? what does it mean to have Yiras Shomayim? please can you briefly explore this subject?
Thank you very much!
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Zohar
How do we know that zohar is true? It was a private revelation from Eliyohu hanovi to reb shimon bar yochai.
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Chana -3 years ago
Adam and eve
Why do we have to suffer because of Adam and Eva's sin?
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Sarah -3 years ago
I've always wondered about that...
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Pain
Due to medical conditions past and present I have a lot of physical pain from medical treatment and physical pain in the body and I have to a very hard time dealing with it, can you advise how to deal with it? Am I allowed to complain and express frustration?
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BlondeGirl -3 years ago
yes u are allowed to complain but u must complain in the right way. the yidden in the midbar did not get punished for comlaining over the lack of food, water, rather it was the way they complained that they got punished for.
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Dear rabbi
why is intimacy a prohibited topic for teens? I mean we all have question and since we're are "kind of not allowed" to ask we draw conclusions ourselves (which in most of the cases are missing a lot of important information)
i know this is a sensitive topic, but could you give us some guidance? I feel like we really need one now even more
thank you for everything you do
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Rabbit rabbi yy has a class on this.
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Where Can i find it?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Question for Rabbi YY
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Question for Rabbi YY
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Zalman M from Venice Beach -3 years ago
Question for Rabbi YY
How are we the 'chosen' people, if Hashem only offered us the Torah after the other nations?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
We are the choosing people, hence we were chosen for choosing!
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Menachem montreal -3 years ago
I listened to your Q&A tonight and you reminded me of this Vort:
Thought you might like it..
You spoke about the image some have of Hashem.
“we were created in Gods image; the problem is that we created God in our image…”
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Leah Lowinger -3 years ago
thank you so much rabbi yy words can not explain what you do for me and my friends i am jealous of your gan eden hatzlachah
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Chaya -3 years ago
Question for Rabbi YY
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Anonymous -3 years ago
The feeling that they have hope and a future.
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Chaya -3 years ago
Question for Rabbi YY
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Anonymous -3 years ago
That his life is too precious for that; I would also try to get expert help needed.
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Sarah -3 years ago
I was in the same situation. Please seek out professional help immediately
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a l -3 years ago
rabbi yy, chazak ubaruch! btw what did ur bobbe do to deserve a descendent as you
rabbi yy, chazak ubaruch! btw what did ur bobbe do to deserve a descendent as you
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a l -3 years ago
or zeydeh or rebbi etc
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Tamara Katzman -3 years ago
Question for Rabbi YY
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Yossi -3 years ago
Question for Rabbi YY
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Anonymous -3 years ago
1. Time was also created during creation. So before creation there was "before" creation because time is also a creation.
2. Hashem learning Torah is a way of saying that Torah is Hashem's mind and wisdom -- of course, He learns Torah, that is His mind, and the Torah are His ideas. Just as person with his mind studies ideas or conceived conepts, Hashem studies Torah -- His mind and thought process is represented by Torah.
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Shmuel Jacobs -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
He does make one weekly.
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Anonymous -3 years ago
He does make one weekly.
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Anonymous -3 years ago
He does make one weekly.
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Anonymous -3 years ago
He does make one weekly.
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mimi -3 years ago
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a l -3 years ago
can you think of one person who youve helped? if yes then you cant imagine the ripple effect of that one good deed. if not, then go ahead and do one , even just one...
[actually im inspired by your question, and youve helped me ! :) if you read my comment here ! and even more so if you will comment your thoughts about it. thanks]
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mimi -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Yes, really.
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Sam -3 years ago
What sbout m?
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Sam -3 years ago
What about me?
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ahuva green -3 years ago
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Chaya -3 years ago
Question for Rabbi YY
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Anonymous -3 years ago
The census was for those who can go into the army. Even for men, it was not under 20 or over 60.
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Sam -3 years ago
wommen can also go to the army?
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Eli mizrachi -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
When someone loves you so much, do you want to sin against Him or be close to Him?
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Zev Volf (Zevi) Edelstein -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
This might help. https://youtu.be/vq6hN12nwPU
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Anonymous -3 years ago
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT QUESTION
This question has always been really bothering me and I need a satisfying answer. I want to know: What's up?!
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sam -3 years ago
Gods up, hells down.
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Anonymous -3 years ago
How do you balance being a father? And making time to answer many teenagers and children's questions..
What is your priority?
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a l -3 years ago
how? hashems will
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Is there a way to speak to your parents about something that is bothering you in their relationship? Or does that breed on Kibbud Av Vaeim?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Yes, but do it with respect.
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Kaila -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
We do not know the answer to that.
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dina -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
1. Perhaps in some ways, but they still may vary in so many ways.
2. It means their souls are deeply connected to music.
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Hi Rabbi YY,
You saw the president. You were able to handshake.
Now, obviously Hashem is greater than the president. How do we have that immense connection and feeling when we speak to Hashem, to have it even more than when we see the president in his physicality?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
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Yaakov Caroline -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
He tried to do whetever he can, but ultimitely Hashem is the ruler of the world and Hashem is the only one who decides when Moshiach will come. We must do what we can to hasten his coming.
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Tzvi -3 years ago
I think It is Important to say That the way It was before 5750 and after ,is very different.The rebbe Before that year never said that we have finished everything all our work and now we are ready for the redemption And all we have to do is accept it and get ready to greet mashiach Which means that it wasn't like all the other great tzadikim That tried tried to bring mashiach and it was like a plane trying to have emergency landings but they're not successful maybe something happened closer to it but not Physically down here But when the rebbe says He did everything he can and he is giving it over to us he's saying that he so to speak brought the plane to land and now it's not going back this is where we are now we just need to actually put it down and it's not like he he's giving us the whole hard job he did all the really hard stuff and now the few sprinkles on the bottom that have to be finished that's our job and it's much much closer than before and when somebody gives something over to somebody else To be called giving it over means that you have it so he had it- The power to do it And he did whatever he can and now the left over Is given over to us With the power to do it hat is how i heard mashpiem explain it bderech efshar but it makes the most sense ty
Mashiach now!!!!
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Tzvi -3 years ago
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Zalman -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
I think you should find an expert to talk to about all this; it is a serious issue and you need someone good to help guide you. Can your parents help you find a really good therapist?
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S -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
It means that you are even stronger.
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Surie -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
If they are helping you follow a path that brings you deep inner fulfillement, or the opposite.
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Devora -3 years ago
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a l -3 years ago
i think moshe rabeinu asked ur question....
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Listne to my emunah series, class #9.
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Sheva -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
I guess that means that the best alternative was for it to turn out the way it did, even if we can't see it or understand it.
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Yitzchok -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Right, sometimes this step was required to prepare them for the right one.
Or sometimes, they did not put in the work they needed to put into the relationship.
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devorah -3 years ago
if all the teens who leave yiddishkeit are really souls on a ascent/ journey, how does that make sense- ive heard of teens who tried commiting suicide, but they got stopped just in the nick of time. so if c"v some teens WOULD try to end their lives, how would that be an ascent? that is just ending everything during the descent. please clarify this for me.
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Every person who c"v takes their lives, must come down again, because their mission was not finished. That is why suicide is not a good idea, on any level. As it is not eliminating the pain.
Ultimately, though, they will return and reach even a deeper and a higher place.
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Anonymous -3 years ago
if they reach a higher place shouldn’t we all do it?
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ahuva green -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Yes it is okay to cry; I will be addressing the company where he worked, Sunday evening 930 AM. We will post it on the website.
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Ahuva Green -3 years ago
Can somebody plz post the link? I was looking for it...
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ovadia babekov -3 years ago
thank you so much
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ovadia babekov -3 years ago
thank you so much
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Yisroel -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
If you do not see, research the topic a bit, or ask someone who may know.
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chana perel engel -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
He knew that all of his gifts came from Hashem! and perhaps if someone else might have had them, they might have utilized them even better.
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esther -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
You love their inner Divine core. You love the Jew inside of them. Not their sins or mistakes. When you love their Neshama, it can never have a bad influence on you.
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anonymous -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Learn Chovas Halevavos Shaar Habitachon.
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Levi Maximov -3 years ago
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Racheli -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Listen to ‘friend’ by nechama cohen
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Zev Volf (Zevi) -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Maybe listen to the “birds and the bees” by the rabbi. It’s on theyeshiva.net
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Maybe listen to the “birds and the bees” by the rabbi. It’s on theyeshiva.net
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Sam -3 years ago
Cos god decided that if you where alowed as much freedom then men you would think that you where created equel, but actualy, god created girls to get married and satisfy men.
Or at least thats what the torah and tulmed (according to all, wirrtten by men), would want you to think.
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בערל -3 years ago
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Ari Friedman -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
??
can girls go live?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
yes
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Anonymous -3 years ago
on a previous show he said yes
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a l -3 years ago
maybe try this : [ untill rabbi yy answers] share with her ur respect and love for her. after she accepts and feels it, explain your problem to her, and that your asking if and how she can help you with it, without sacrificing your closeness together
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Ari Friedman -3 years ago
Ari Friedman
How can we use the virus to boost our connection to hashem??
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Chaya -3 years ago
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Menucha -3 years ago
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Sholom Ber -3 years ago
Maybe this will answer.
There is a saying that "music is the pen of the soul."
That means, that the person who wrote the song put a bit of his soul into the song, which you are absorbing into your body and mind.
For example, listening to Hardcore rap, that places a little bit of coarseness into ou, affecting who you are, without you realising it till later. and You take a bit of that person into you.
Do you want to be Your True self Fully, or partially you and partially someone else that you don't even know?
I relate to this, because i experienced it myself.
I hope this helps.
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Sholom Ber -3 years ago
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random person in th universe
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Dear rabI I see you talk a lot of changing yourself for better, in your perspective what is a good change?
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I feel like Hashem wants too much from me!
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s.m -3 years ago
thank you so much for an amazing awareness in this program. what is your opinion on what is a true friend?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Hi,
I am struggling with something that pretty much every other Person these days struggles with, but for some reason it feels worse for me. I can't find balance. either Im on my phone all day to the point where I cannot even do anything else and I become irratable and depressed, or I'm completely off. I went off my phone for a week and it was amazing. And then I ditched an entire day of school just to sit on my phone. it's not sustainable especially in these times when I haven't been able to see my friends in person for months. I don't know what to do or how to find an equilibrium. Are online friends real friends? How to I balance my life with my "online" life?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
first if all,i want to thank you for such an amazing program. i always wondered about moshiach. what happens next? we always learnt in school that once someone is niftar they are in gan eden forever. what is forever? thanks so much
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Anonymous -3 years ago
struggle
hi rabbi jacoson i am really strugling to be with my older sister and she has to much imotions and it is very frustrating to be in an atmosfair were her emotions rely on me do you have any advice cus it is very hard?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Perhaps the mission of the child was not to do mitzvas but to inspire others to do it...
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Rainbows in itself is not bad, only it’s a symbol that reminds you that u did bad and must repent.
think abt it... Hashem made a seemingly pretty thing as his symbol of rebuke. The kindness!
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Sam -2 years ago
Its the symbol of LGTBQ+, so it's bad. Don't question God.
Anyone who questions God's infinete love will burn in hell for all eneternity - some rabbi (I forgot his name)
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Someone thats currently lives in a frum community -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Dear Rabbi YY,
How do we truly have bechira, free choice, if we cannot choose to be Jewish. Once we are born Jewish there is no way to opt-out? How does this fit into the concept of bechira? Please explain.
Thank You!
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Shlomo -3 years ago
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Dear Rabbi YY,
I have been listening to a lot of Torah Anytime shiurim lately and have noticed that a common theme that seems to keep reappearing is "how special we are". I am constantly hearing how each and every yid is special and has a tzelem elokim and is amazing. I keep on hearing how important it is to love and believe in yourself in order to be able to do anything in life (i.e give to others, love Hashem etc.). No matter how hard I try to see my strengths and greatness, I keep on coming back to the thought that I am worthless. How do I make myself TRULY believe in y own greatness and see my true kochos?
Thanks for providing this incredible platform for us to ask our questions!
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Anonymous -3 years ago
dear rabbi yy i am a 17 year old boy and i was expelled today from yeshiva [my principal decided on making yeshiva] for the third time this year alone. i was forced to commit something i didn't. i was abused by him physically and emotanialy sevral times already. dear rabbi yy please adress this question on behalf of me and so many others who expierienced such hypacracy and trauma.thank you.
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Avrohom Dov Manchester -3 years ago
Understanding Talmidai R Akiva
Dear Rabbi Jacobson,
Please can we have a brief explanation of the sin of the talmidim of rabbi akiva? It was obviously not simple case of disrespect. Most importantly how did R Akiva not pick up on this behaviour and educate his talmidim accordingly. Many thanks
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david -3 years ago
dear rabbi yy jacobson i am a17 year old boy and i really admire you please adress my question. i am a bachur in a chasidishe yeshiva, and today i was thrown out of yeshiva for good when i was expected in doing something i didnt commit. my menahl has thrown me out 2 times this zman alone he has abused me physically sevral times already. and im really dependent on youre asisstance please rabbi yy if you can guide me in this situaion it would really improve my life and the lives of so many others who are treated so unfairly and paiinful. with thanks trust and admiration to youre advice.
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Shmuel -3 years ago
U would get professional help from a therapist and try to join a diff school.
And if there's one line u should know it's that hashem only gives someone a challenge he can handle.
If it's hard, u have a high soul
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Anonymous -3 years ago
we believe in and rely so much on the rabbis! why/how can i trust them
dear rabbi jacobson thank you thank you for these shiurim they always hit the spot and are very uplifting!
Q: how can i have confidence in the ideas that are in torah shebeal peh -- meaning the logical views of the chachamim, in gemara and rishonim and acharonim, and in seforim, that we are supposed to understand. cant i argue? intellectually speaking it is very hard to say that their ideas were always right. werent they just ppl like me and you? why are their opinions absolute?? it just feels that people make the opinions in the gemara and in seforim in general "super holy" and invincible bc their "SO deep" when it really looks just lav davka to me. if its a holy thing higher than logic or supra-rational divine insparation then im fine with that. but how can we trust ppl with their human brains just bc they lived 300 or 1000 years before us?? who said the mesorah of torah shebeal peh is even that reliable with 1500 yrs before anything was written down??
hope its a bit clear. thank you so much.
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Avrohom Dov Manchester -3 years ago
Great question I've just listened to Rabbi Yy series in Emunah His explanation is tremendous you will be amazed feel connected and so strong after listening Hatzloch
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Anonymous -3 years ago
thank you. which episode?
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A girl from brooklyn... -3 years ago
Role of a Jewish Woman
Hi rabbi Jacobson, i would really love if you can explain the role of a women/wife i really dont unserstand it. ( i sent in the question the last 2 classes) and would really appreciate if you can address it!!!!!!
I feel like the torah was created for the men and we do like the shlakshamash / behind the scenes jobs??? laundry...cleaning...cooking... serving...
P.S. and like just to add to the problem what is the beracha Shelo asani eisha what is it supposed to make me feel??
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mendy -3 years ago
quarantine? maybe not?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Yes, we know the other side...
But imagine if for the week before Purim we would have all been home, how many would have been saved? Look how many deaths just in our communities.
Of course, we know the other side and all the challenges as you say; but should we therefore allow all our elders to perish, and many young as well?
BTW, even if they are careful, it is not the solution, as when young people mingle the virus spreads to everyone. Even elder people need care, and need food, and get packages, etc.
So what is the answer? nobody knows. But look at Israel. They are not driven by the same agendas as others; many of their doctors are deeply spiritual and sensitive. Set see how they dealt with this.
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Binyamin -3 years ago
The choice of living
Although all people have free will, we are kind of forced to try our best because otherwise we're punished. How is it fair that God put us in the world without a choice?
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Binyamin -3 years ago
Prioritizing in learning
There's so much I don't know and so much to learn. I know that there are basics I have to know that I just never get around to learning. One day I'll hear a rav or rebbi say it's important to review what you learn in class and the next day I'll hear a speech about the importance to know tanach and then I'll hear that you need to know halacha well and next I'll hear that a certain sefer is a classic and you have to learn it, and so on... If I do everything I and others feel I should know, I'll cover very little.
How is it possible to properly prioritize and know what to spend my extra time learning?
Thanks!
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Binyamin -3 years ago
Learning priorities
There's so much I don't know and so much to learn. I know that there are basics I have to know that I just never get around to learning. One day I'll hear a rav or rebbi say it's important to review what you learn in class and the next day I'll hear a speech about the importance to know tanach and then I'll hear that you need to know halacha well and next I'll hear that a certain sefer is a classic and you have to learn it, and so on... If I do everything I and others feel I should know, I'll cover very little.
How is it possible to properly prioritize and know what to spend my extra time learning?
Thanks!
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Leibel V -3 years ago
Dear rabbi
as a bochur from London of 15 years of age, i travelled to spend tishry in Bobov were i am still to this day.
on the 13 of tishry i think it was 1979 i went to 770 i wanted to see the Rebbe i got there at the beginning
of the fabreng and at one point the Rebbe told them to sing the above nigun. i noticed that the Rebbe gave
it a lot of energy which i took on board because of the translation of its words. But during the current crisis
it has a new meaning when one makes a minyan one counts the ten men also with the above that is what the rebbe was
being meramez that davening with a minyan is a real privilege and don't take it for granted.
mit gzunte bruches
libel
london uk
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Someone from ch -3 years ago
The stigma of hat and jacket and white shirt ( as a bochur)
it is hard to me to express myself in a short way, nevertheless i didnt wanted to skip this oportunity,so i'll try it:
Why when im not wearing the hat and jacket (to be honest i use it the most for davening in shul and shabbos) i have this feeling that people (this is a frum town) in a certain way look down at me? Like:
"ah this guy? I always see him at the street with a shirt, he doesnt seem chasidishe" "hey look this guy its not a chassidisher bochur, look how he goes to the grocery store, etc".
I mean i understand that it is just a garment as Tania teaches us about. But still whats bother my mind is the aspect of "קרא ליה מכבדותי" meaning that clothing speak how i CHOOSE to express myself (so the fact im not with a hat and jacket all the time may lead people around me to think i am "out of the system") But not always is confortable to walk with a hat that falls all the time, a jacket when its hot, and a white shirt when im sweating like a animal (this is just examples)
I perhaps had exaggerated, but its for the sake of explaining my concern. And being that im a bochur perhaps it would affect me when it will come the time for suggesting someone.
Thank you in advance and i wish you all the best!
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A girl from London -3 years ago
challenges
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Devora -3 years ago
I was wondering the same thing...how does the concept of being able to overcome challenges have to do with ppl who left yiddishkeit, they obviously couldnt deal with what they we're given. Thank you "girl from london," for asking this question which has been on my mind since 7th grade when my teacher taught this to us.
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Who am I.
Rebbe has explained that our essence is a piece of G-d. Rebbe also explained that we have a Nefesh habehami that naturally pulls us away from doing the will of HaShem. So what would we call the “I” that experiences life, ie the one that is listening to this shiur right now. Who is the one that chooses to be inflow with their essence and not let their yetzer hara take control of the wheel? In Yiddishkyte what do we call the observer, the one that chooses?
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ovadia -3 years ago
if you have a not yet realigest family mrmber how can you try to be mikarv then .thank you
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Chaya -3 years ago
I suffer from anxiety, and have many fears and worries that i must confront on a daily basis. Now during the virus, these worries are obviously greater.
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Chana -3 years ago
Question for upcoming teens Q and A with Rabbi Jacobson
Dear Rabbi Jacobson,
When coronavirus started, I felt so unsettled, everyone around me was getting nervous, the governments were at a loss, every single person in the world displayed their lack of security and vulnerability, and it was being absorbed by me. The first thing I needed to do, was watch a shiur of Rabbi Jacobson, and in my mind I thought, if Rabbi Jacobson displays any emotion of stress or anxiety, then that’s it, I wouldn’t be able to handle it. But bH, I watched your shiur and you just sat there radiating happiness and simchah, and I felt so relieved. I was now assured that it was good, and I was able to continue.
Please Rabbi Jacobson answer my question, by telling me what is the secret to your strength of Emunah and Bitachon? I want to feel it also, all the time! I desperately want to have menuchas hanefesh, and be able to live a true happy life!
What do you recommend of something practical that I can start to do, to enable myself be genuinely at peace with everything that happens in life (in essence - complete and unwavering Bitachon)?
Thank you for your time, and thank you for each and every one of your shiurim, they have helped me so so much!
Chana
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