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  Shmuel Ben Yehuda -1 year ago

  36:00

  "wholasale approach"

  human nature gets attracted to things that are easier to itself (i.e. self opening slidding doors on vans)

  it is for everyone and always easier to tune into music and song then simple repetitive tunes ( nusach) but our mesorah is to keep that tanug limited to only shabbos and yom tov ( togteher with the chulent) ( yes-leil shishi chulent permenantly damaged the concept of machulei shabbes ( which should have a everylasting effect etched in the memory of our youngsters rememebring the beauty of shabbos through the smell of chulent wafting throught the house! if you eat your birthday cake every day! then your birthday will not be anything to appreciate) therefore offering this concept of song to everyone is defintily not the way sleichos is supposed to look ( imagine standing before a judge bec you were indited and you start singing some song with guitars and food ) and of course it inspires, but it is our life task to

  1. get inspired from our nusach hatfillah ( and guard our environments not to have access to easier methods)

  2. say Thank you hashem by moidim in middle of davinging ( not #TYHing on a bumper stickers)

  3. try to break our heads on a gemara without translation

  etc etc

  from 54:00 & on

  "A god of dread"?

  whatever that might mean but thats very close to a mecharef umegadef. and that needs a public clarification.

  I even saw someone chasting a frummer yid in shul that nudged someone not to talk during leining  that he is serving a " bad god"

  Ribono Shel Olam !!!

  This conversation confuses the very essence of our faith, such content is highly sensitive and if ever needs to be discussed with utmost awe and within highly classified environment ..

  The rambam writes real teshuva is that a person should be crying constantly.

  do not call contemporary hihurei teshuva (or even donations or tikun etc.) "teshuva" !!

  it is probably the

  echtu v"ushiv" chazal talk about

  Dagger?

  we are talking here about everios letaiuvoin!!!! not lehachus 

  only hope!!!

  unformatinatley it spills over to the entire klall yisroel ( such hashkafa spreads like wildfire) and is burning the very fabric of our sub-consiousness

  Rabbi YY 

  you are prob more elquent then any spoken word in the frum community the last few decades, but there needs to be some  psychoanalysis of where this is going. failing to do so, is a serious diservice to our heritage and destiny. 

  KSVCH"TV

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  Mendel Zilberberg -2 years ago

  Mishpacha -- I think a public apology is in order --

  I commend Rabbi YY for his candor -- but the fact that Rabbi YY emerged as bulletproof does not mean the interviewer was not firing buckshot (disrespect in the extreme). If you think I am wrong - do you think if it was any other was a Rosh Yeshiva who regularly gives shiurim to hundreds ( not thousands as is the case with Rabbi YY ) of ehrliche yidden -- they would be asked about finances, or who their Moreh Derech is  because their Rebbe (mentor) has gone to the Olam HaEmes.

  I hasten to point out that The Yeshiva.net does not have a paywall.  Does anyone stop and think how the technical and administrative staff (aside from Rabbi YY get paid) or what the mothly bills for the many many terrabyes of storage and access rights cost etc. etc..  Furthermore,  Rabbi YY has traveled the world at the request of hundreds of Jewish communiities -- should he do that for free.

  Sould we not be upset when Rabbi YY is so inappropriately questioned by a person sitting on a professional soundstage promoting a commercial purveyor of whatever sells without backlash. . 

  Secular Journalism is replete with people who relish the thought of "catching" faith leaders off guard -- while the attempts were easily dealt with -- it does nor excuse the lack of respect that was conspiuously absent.  

  I could go on but my point in writing this is because I find the questions posed as being a real Chutzpah -- and I think a public apology L'Cvodo and L'Chvod Torahso is in order.

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  • Anonymous -2 years ago

    Nah 

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  Nechi Levitin -2 years ago

  Yisroel Besser did a fantastic job. He is representing a Magazine, and as he noted in the beginning of his speech, he needed to stay 'neutral' so that his organization does not get tarnished. 

  If for a second they thought this would be content that they would not want to publish, they wouldn't!

  It's a win-win. the Mishpachah gets to take credit for an awesome interview of authenitcity, of someone they respect, without explicit endorsement. Brilliant marketing move on their side.

  And even though R' Besser was asking questions so that Rabbi YY could explain his ideas, I cringed when he asked the question "if people knew that they could do teshuva, they would feel easier doing Aveiros". Rabbi YY answered eloquently, but any thinking person would realize that the question has no basis. And I would venture to guess, based on the compassionate and wonderful articles that Rabbi Besser wrote, with his nuanced insught into the human psyche, knows this as well.

  Rabbi YY - Yasher Koach! For, well just being you! You have absolutely NO IDEA how many people you touch, how many people you save in the literal sense of the word, Sei B'Ruchniyus and Sei B'Gashmiyus.

  Tehi Maschurteich Shlaima Me'im Hashem.

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  matel -2 years ago

  קטע מעקבי הצאן, פרק הדור (כל הספר, והפרק הזה בפרט, הוא required reading #1 לכל הורה ומורה!): 

  כבר התעלה [הדור החדש] בתכונתו מלהיות מעמיד אופי לחייו מפני בריחה מפחד איזה שיהיה, בין מוחשי בין ציורי, בין חומרי בין רוחני... הוא מוכשר רק להתרומם, ללכת באורח חיים ההולכת למעלה למשכיל, אבל לא יוכל גם אם ירצה להיות כפוף ושחוח, נושא עול ונטל, אשר לא יוכל למצא בתוכו רושם של אור חיים, לדעה ורגש; הוא לא יוכל לשוב מיראה, אבל מאד מוכשר הוא לשוב מאהבה שיראת הרוממות תתחבר עמה.

  I'm not saying that כבוד תורתו should have mentioned this nekuda in the Mishpacha interview -- I think that איק litvishe keilem (which I greatly respect and admire) were already sufficiently overwhelmed with all of your Pnimiyus -- but lemaysa, this inyan is so yesodisdik (albeit teef, and seemingly sacrilege) and needs to be gotten out there.  It's not just that due to the weakness/lowness/brokenness of the dor that emphasizing love/ruach/etc became a 'necessary evil'; venahafoch hu: its from their geulahdik malah!  Which is in line with the emerging Toras haGeulah!

  A gut gebentcht Geuhlahdik yahr, for you, your mishpacha, and and all שומעי לקחך!

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  baila -2 years ago

  ​I wanted to say that I admire the way you answered the questions.
  I admire the fact that you were honest about the fact that you are relying on a hetter to take money for your lectures, and that you admitted that the rambam holds against it.  I understand that you do need to make a living. You need money to pay for yeshiva tuition and all the expenses of a frum lifestyle. You are making an honest living, and not doing fraud (as far as I know).
  I liked the way that you answered the interviewer when he said that when his child wants to touch something dangerous, he is strict and will make it clear that it is not acceptable.  I wanted to add something that I would tell that interviewer.  That interviewer loves his child and his child knows it, and because he loves his child, he won't allow him to do something that will hurt him. I'm guessing that this interviewer doesn't only keep his child away from knives and matches. He also gives his child food. He also gives his child clothing. He also gives his child physical affection. He makes sure to give his child whatever the child needs.  
      If a parent were to only keep his child away from dangerous things without providing for the child's needs, would anyone say this is a good parent???
      If a parent doesn't hide the matches, knives and guns, and then punishes the child for touching them, is that a good parent?  

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    Nechi Levitin -2 years ago

    Very deep and insightful. Yasher Koach.

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  yitzchok -2 years ago

  one of a kind

  great mind and heart in the right place

  we need many many more of people who can express the kind of ideas that    YYJ does

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• Anonymous -2 years ago

  AMAZING!!!!!!!!

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  SN -2 years ago

  As always, Rabbi YY, you say it exactly how it is. If only everyone can grasp the depth and power of your words. So inspirational. 

  Thank you.

  A mom of several kid in pain.

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• Anonymous -2 years ago

  Not only for those in pain.

  As the entire Jewish world prays for Moshiach, people like Rabbi YY are actually helping us get there. How blessed we are to have a teacher like you. One who leads by example with honesty and humility. The depth and breath of Torah that you share so generously and wholeheartedly, illuminates our lives. It enables each and every one of us to touch EMES, to experience G-dliness as something tangible and real, to understand who we truly are and the power (and responsibility) that comes with it. The positive consequences are immeasurable. The message you share is not only for those who have experienced pain or trauma. This message is for every Jew, no matter how spiritually privileged you are blessed to be.

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  ralph -2 years ago

  I watched the interview with sruly besser. Great interview he always does a great job. I have one point where I think he's mistaken and I'm not sure if you realize this. The whole idea is really for most  yiddishkeit should be taught differently, scary, trembling hell, etc but these kids need to focus on the positive and loving part of yiddishkeit.

  But this is not the case everyone the biggest lamdan needs this also. I'm in BMG the cream of the crop of the American yeshivish system , I'm not saying its a majority but many big talmidi chachmim and lamdanim are seeking and searching for this positive part too. there is simply a thirst for this.

  2 people who sit next to me who have never opened a chasidish sefer in their lives and laughed at it and always looked at it as some science fiction (as i used to also) are now learning chasidus. Why?

  Simply because they were given a taste of it.

  Now yes they obviously not saying sleichos with music and not doing "kumzits yiddishkeit" everyone on their level, and some need it to be brought out more externally. But at its core it's the same, many people not only weaker kids even lamdanim the best of the best want some sense of purpose and hell, yom hadin is not enough for them.

  One last point we need to ask how many people again I'm talking about talmidi chachamim just get cynical with the negative way and just laugh at yiddishkeit as a result? they doing everything right but just are numb inside. One yungerman turned to me one day in the middle of elul at the start of Musser seder in BMG and said I cant believe people still doing this playing this game.

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  • Anonymous -2 years ago

    I agree. 
    
    I teach in a Bais Yaakov, and the girls are thirsting for a positive take on Yiddishkeit. 

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  Isaac -2 years ago

  He was not disrespectful at all. Nor was he being rude or tough. He loves Rabbi YY and wanted to give him an opportunity to express his wisdom and perspective. So he kept on digging for more. Yes he kept on asking to that the rabbi can have a chance to explain things also to people who may have a different view. 
  this was no personal attack. It was an invitation. 

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  Yaakov -2 years ago

  i almost could not watch. he kept interrupting. you, however b"H responded with courtesy and passionand torah and chassidus.
  yasher koach, you really handled yourself very well. may you be well ad 120 bsimcha

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  Jochanan Wilmans -2 years ago

  Heartbreaking. Touching the very core of my soul. May many desperate young and find The Way out into the most beautiful relationship with HaKodeshBarchu

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  Sarah Goldberg -2 years ago

  Yasher koach

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  Cirel -2 years ago

  Just finished watching. Mr Besser really tried kvetching you through the wringer.  To use the Rebbe’s expression (about the Rebetzin) you “came through with flying colors”.
  Riding high!

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