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  Rivkah Ozersky -7 years ago

  Dear Rabbi Yoseph Yizchok Jacobson Shlit"a,
  I love this class.
  Especially the images you bring from stories of Rebbeim like the one of the Dubnov Maggid, Rabbi Yaakov Kranz, about the King's diamond.
  I like to see it as a Midrashic story where the King is THE KING of Kings.
  The diamond is our divine soul.
  The child is that yetzer in us, that willingly or inadvertently succeds in making us fail, sin, living a scar, a scratch.
  The experts are the science or techology teachings of the nations of the world, who can't grasp the nature of the scratch.
  Aaah...but the Yideleh Jeweller Craftsman...he's the Yiddishe Neshamah, the experienced Rebbe that shows us the depth in the Process of Teshuva according to His Will.
  The ugly "scratch", suddenly becomes the focus of our mind.
  Now that scratch prevents us from enjoying the previous light that used to emanate from the diamond. In our despair we look for solutions in the wrong places.
  We follow teachings that cannot help, voices that send us even deeper into the abyss. Until we hit Rock Bottom.
  And when from the deepest pits of our despair we shout and cry for help, and yearn for change, where only He Can Hear us, He hears us and Rescues us. Then He Sends The Yiddeleh Expert Diamond Cutter, a Rebbe, who like a Soul "Whisperer" guides us through Teshuva out of Love.
  The Chassid Rebbe like a diamond cutter knows the Art of utilizing the very scratch, the"deffect" in the soul to its advantage.
  It's called Teshuvah from Love, the Long Shorter road, is that process through which we work meticulously on ourselves digging deeper and deeper to where the Light of our Pure Neshama can Shine its brightest.
  Like the scrupulous carving and sculpting from the very scratch the shape which will allow the Brightest Light that would have being impossible to perceive, before the sin.

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  ock -11 years ago

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  Erica -13 years ago

  Beautiful class.
  
  Where is the intro music from?

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  Kayo, Tokyo -13 years ago

  Merciful One
  Baruch HaShem
  
  After I listened to this shiur, when I recited Shama, I realized HaShem is so merciful that even our sins can be One with Him.

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  Kayo, Tokyo -13 years ago

  Thank you for comfort
  Baruch HaShem
  
  The relationship between Tashlich and water drawing is especially fascinating. Personally, I have committed so many grievous sins and it is truely because of those sins as you teach, I did not make a mistake or commit sin when I chose Orthodox Conversion. It is such a comfort and understand from my experience that I can reclaim my sins as catalyst to be closer to HaShem.

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