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By Rabbi YY JacobsonReligion & Spirituality Education Judaism

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March 11, 2024 Struggling With Faith During Difficult Times - Rabbi YY with Chanie Apfelbaum
With Such Pain, How Do I Let Go?

This was an instagram live conversation between Chanie Apfelbaum (@busyinbrooklyn) & Rabbi YY Jacobson (@yyjacobson) about Struggling with Faith through difficult times. This took place on Sunday 23 Adar I, 5784, March 3, 2024.
1 hr 17 min
March 11, 2024 Why Will All Holidays, Besides Purim, Be Nullified in the Future? - Maamar Purim 5716 #1
How Transformation Thinks: The Uniqueness of Purim Even Relative to Yom Kippur

This text-based class, the first in a series, teaching a Maamar, a Chassidic discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe which he presented at a Farbrengen, on Sunday, Purim 5716, February 26, 1956, was taught by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Monday, Parshas Pekudei, 1 Adar II, 5784, March 11, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.
The class explores what it means that Purim is the only holiday that will not be nullified when Moshiach comes, and why there is argument about the status of Yom Kippur following the redemption.

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1 hr 12 min
March 07, 2024 At the Core of All Dysfunction There’s an Irrational Belief - Maamar Reishis Goyim Purim 5715 #9
Once I Confront the Inner Self-Destructive Voice, I Can Begin to Sublimate My Emotions

This class, the ninth and final lecture on the maamar Reishis Goyim Amalek 5715, was presented on Thursday, Parshas Vayakhel, 27 Adar I, 5784, March 7, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.
The class explores why and how Amalek is the root of all toxic emotions, and how Torah and Mitzvos represent the healthiest and most aligned way of living. Why do we deviate? Because of an irrational force inside of us.

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2 hr 5 min
March 07, 2024 Count Their Contributions - YY Moment

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3 min
March 05, 2024 The Last Lecture of the Lubavitcher Rebbe: How to Love - Parshas Shekalim Women's Class
Why Is It So Hard to Serve G-d With Bliss? How to Love Your (True) Self & the Other

This class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Vayakhel, Parshas Shekalim, 25 Adar I, 5784, March 5, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.
This Sabbath, Jews the world over will read, in addition to the weekly Torah portion, an extra Torah portion, known as Parshas Shekalim, or the "portion of the coins."
This section of the Torah records the mitzvah incumbent upon the people of Israel, to make a yearly contribution of a half shekel to cover the cost of all communal Temple offerings. A shekel was a specific weight of silver (about 16 grams) that was the standard coinage used by the Jews in the desert. The Jewish people were instructed to contribute a half-shekel coin, which was a silver coin weighing about 8 grams, to the Temple.

The Torah is extremely particular about the amount of the contribution: "The wealthy shall not increase and the destitute shall not decrease from half a shekel." I do not think there was ever again in Jewish history an appeal made setting a limit to the contributions of the rich!
What is baffling about this mitzvah is the Torah's insistence that the contribution consist of a half-coin, rather than a whole, complete coin. Why would G-d instruct the Jewish people to give a contribution that is not complete? Especially considering that the Torah demands all elements connected to the Temple service be as complete and perfect as possible.
In his final address, two days before he suffered a stroke, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, presented a profound explanation. This was Shabbos Vayakhel, 25 Adar I, 5752 (1992). It explored the question if a human being in his deepest place is a lonely creature, struggling with a mysterious and complex self in a way that nobody else can really understand or appreciate?

Many philosophical and spiritual disciplines eloquently describe the sense of solitariness that comes hand in hand with one's journey into the inner chambers of the self. The deeper you go, the lonelier you become. But the Rebbe presented a very different view, one which helps teach us how to live with love and joy, despite the pain and disappointment.
1 hr 49 min
March 04, 2024 How Do I Know Chassidus Is True? - Maamar Reishis Goyim Purim 5715 #8
When You Touch Your Yechida — Everything Becomes One

This class was presented on Monday, Parshas Vayakhel, 24 Adar I, 5784, March 4, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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1 hr 49 min
March 03, 2024 The Orphans' Father - YY Moment

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2 min
March 03, 2024 G-d Never Leaves - YY Moment

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2 min
March 03, 2024 We Are One Family - YY Moment

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4 min
March 01, 2024 Yechida — Where All Our Struggles Converge Into Oneness - Maamar Reishis Goyim Purim 5715 #7
At the Core of the Soul, There Is No Opposition

This is the seventh of a series of text-based classes on a maamar, Chassidic discourse, by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, "Reishs Goyim Amalek," presented at the Farbrengen of Tuesday, 14 Adar, Purim 5715, March 8, 1955.
This class was presented on Friday, Parshas Ki Sisa, 21 Adar I, 5784, March 1, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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1 hr 49 min