How do I forgive Hashem? How Do I Forgive Myself? How Do I Open My Closed Heart?

How do I forgive Hashem? How Do I Forgive Myself? How Do I Open My Closed Heart?

The Apology I Never Received for the Abuse - Yom Kippur for Sexual Abuse Victims

The Anatomy of Ecstasy: How Joy Was Reinvented at Simchas Beis Hashoavah This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on 11 Tishrei, 5787, September 22, 2026.
The joy of Sukkos cannot merely mean relief that the Yamim Noraim are over. Relief is valuable, but it is not the explosive simcha described by Torah and Chazal. Every night of Sukkos in the Beis Hamikdash, multitudes gathered in Jerusalem. Great sages danced and juggled flaming torches. Light flooded the city. Before dawn, a procession descended to the Shiloach spring, drew water, and carried it upward with shofar blasts. The water was poured on the mizbeach together with the morning offering. Was this joy only because Yom Kippur is over? That seems strange.
So what is the secret of this intense joy? The Mishnah says (Sukkah 51b), One who never witnessed Simchas Beis Hashoavah, the Sages declare, never witnessed joy in life. But why? And why say it in the negative? And also why be “stingy” with joy? Maybe a person did experience happiness in another setting or environment! How can anyone state that “if you did not come to my wedding, you never saw joy!” It seems very strange. 
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 112%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: #17324d; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The class delves deeply into the secret of the schism of the water on day two of creation and how the joy of Sukkot heals the tension that has become part of the fabric of life. The class shows how the deepest gift we can bring into the sukkah is not perfection on the table; it is a living heart, present enough to channel joy, love, and the flow of Hashem. View Source Sheets: <a style="color: blue;" target="_blank" href="https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9995">https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9995</a>

The Anatomy of Ecstasy: How Joy Was Reinvented at Simchas Beis Hashoavah This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on 11 Tishrei, 5787, September 22, 2026. The joy of Sukkos cannot merely mean relief that the Yamim Noraim are over. Relief is valuable, but it is not the explosive simcha described by Torah and Chazal. Every night of Sukkos in the Beis Hamikdash, multitudes gathered in Jerusalem. Great sages danced and juggled flaming torches. Light flooded the city. Before dawn, a procession descended to the Shiloach spring, drew water, and carried it upward with shofar blasts. The water was poured on the mizbeach together with the morning offering. Was this joy only because Yom Kippur is over? That seems strange. So what is the secret of this intense joy? The Mishnah says (Sukkah 51b), One who never witnessed Simchas Beis Hashoavah, the Sages declare, never witnessed joy in life. But why? And why say it in the negative? And also why be “stingy” with joy? Maybe a person did experience happiness in another setting or environment! How can anyone state that “if you did not come to my wedding, you never saw joy!” It seems very strange. The class delves deeply into the secret of the schism of the water on day two of creation and how the joy of Sukkot heals the tension that has become part of the fabric of life. The class shows how the deepest gift we can bring into the sukkah is not perfection on the table; it is a living heart, present enough to channel joy, love, and the flow of Hashem. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9995

The Anatomy of Ecstasy: How Joy Was Reinvented at Simchas Beis Hashoavah This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on 11 Tishrei, 5787, September 22, 2026.
The joy of Sukkos cannot merely mean relief that the Yamim Noraim are over. Relief is valuable, but it is not the explosive simcha described by Torah and Chazal. Every night of Sukkos in the Beis Hamikdash, multitudes gathered in Jerusalem. Great sages danced and juggled flaming torches. Light flooded the city. Before dawn, a procession descended to the Shiloach spring, drew water, and carried it upward with shofar blasts. The water was poured on the mizbeach together with the morning offering. Was this joy only because Yom Kippur is over? That seems strange.
So what is the secret of this intense joy? The Mishnah says (Sukkah 51b),&nbsp;One who never witnessed Simchas Beis Hashoavah, the Sages declare, never witnessed joy in life. But why? And why say it in the negative? And also why be “stingy” with joy? Maybe a person did experience happiness in another setting or environment! How can anyone state that “if you did not come to my wedding, you never saw joy!” It seems very strange. 
The class delves deeply into the secret of the schism of the water on day two of creation and how the joy of Sukkot heals the tension that has become part of the fabric of life. The class shows how the deepest gift we can bring into the sukkah is not perfection on the table; it is a living heart, present enough to channel joy, love, and the flow of Hashem. View Source Sheets: <a href="https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9995" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9995</a>

Healing Your Sukkos Stress: We Want Your Heart More than Your Food - Women's Sukkos Class

How You Coronate G-d: You Feel Your Resistance and Choose Trust <div>
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This is the third class in a series on the Maamar Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashanah said by the Alter Rebbe for Rosh Hashanah 5571, September 29, 1810, which came out on Shabbos.
This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, 21 Elul, 5786, September 3, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. 
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The Alter Rebbe explores the meaning of the Divine attribute of Malchus, responsible for generating the consciousness of separateness and finitude, which allows us to choose trust.
Forget ego-death. Hold on to your ego, trauma, and anxiety and surrender it. You are my king, and I am your servant. 
</div> View Source Sheets: <a style="color: blue;" target="_blank" href="https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9989">https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9989</a>

How You Coronate G-d: You Feel Your Resistance and Choose Trust This is the third class in a series on the Maamar Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashanah said by the Alter Rebbe for Rosh Hashanah 5571, September 29, 1810, which came out on Shabbos. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, 21 Elul, 5786, September 3, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. The Alter Rebbe explores the meaning of the Divine attribute of Malchus, responsible for generating the consciousness of separateness and finitude, which allows us to choose trust. Forget ego-death. Hold on to your ego, trauma, and anxiety and surrender it. You are my king, and I am your servant. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9989

How You Coronate G-d: You Feel Your Resistance and Choose Trust 

This is the third class in a series on the Maamar Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashanah said by the Alter Rebbe for Rosh Hashanah 5571, September 29, 1810, which came out on Shabbos.
This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, 21 Elul, 5786, September 3, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.&nbsp;



The Alter Rebbe explores the meaning of the Divine attribute of Malchus, responsible for generating the consciousness of separateness and finitude, which allows us to choose trust.
Forget ego-death. Hold on to your ego, trauma, and anxiety and surrender it. You are my king, and I am your servant.&nbsp;
 View Source Sheets: <a href="https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9989" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9989</a>

Forget Ego-Death: Hold Your Trauma and then Surrender It to Hashem - Likkutei Torah Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashanah #3

<a href="https://theyeshiva.net/jewish/9117/womena-noach-class-hamas-war-war-in-israel-the-power-of-every-single-one-of-us">Watch the full class here</a>

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Prayer in Adversity - YY Moment

The Most Powerful Jewish Weapon Rabbi YY Jacobson at a Q & A with Jewish Students on Campus, Thursday, 18 Cheshvon, 5784, November 2, 2023

The Most Powerful Jewish Weapon Rabbi YY Jacobson at a Q & A with Jewish Students on Campus, Thursday, 18 Cheshvon, 5784, November 2, 2023

The Most Powerful Jewish Weapon Rabbi YY Jacobson at&nbsp;a Q &amp; A with Jewish Students on Campus, Thursday, 18 Cheshvon, 5784, November 2, 2023

The Role of Jewish Students Today - Conversation With Campus Students

<a href="https://theyeshiva.net/jewish/9120/lets-get-real-rabbi-yy-jacobson-eli-beer-dr-akiva-perlman-the-hamas-war-clarity-courage-faith-and-unity">Watch the full class here</a>

<a href="https://theyeshiva.net/jewish/9120/lets-get-real-rabbi-yy-jacobson-eli-beer-dr-akiva-perlman-the-hamas-war-clarity-courage-faith-and-unity" rel="noopener noreferrer">Watch the full class here</a>

Far From Selfish - YY Moment

What Our Mother Sarah Understood About Yishmael; The Timeless Advice of Avraham and Sarah: “You Are My Brother” This class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Vayera, 16 Cheshvan, 5784, October 31, 2023, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. View Source Sheets: <a style="color: blue;" target="_blank" href="https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9124">https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9124</a>

What Our Mother Sarah Understood About Yishmael; The Timeless Advice of Avraham and Sarah: “You Are My Brother” This class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Vayera, 16 Cheshvan, 5784, October 31, 2023, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9124

What Our Mother Sarah Understood About Yishmael; The Timeless Advice of Avraham and Sarah: “You Are My Brother” This class was&nbsp;presented on Tuesday, Parshas Vayera, 16&nbsp;Cheshvan, 5784, October 31, 2023, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. View Source Sheets: <a href="https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9124" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9124</a>

The Cognitive Dissonance of Jews with Allegiance to the Left - Women's Class Parshas Vayeira

<a href="https://theyeshiva.net/jewish/9120/lets-get-real-rabbi-yy-jacobson-eli-beer-dr-akiva-perlman-the-hamas-war-clarity-courage-faith-and-unity">Wach the full class here</a>

<a href="https://theyeshiva.net/jewish/9120/lets-get-real-rabbi-yy-jacobson-eli-beer-dr-akiva-perlman-the-hamas-war-clarity-courage-faith-and-unity" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wach the full class here</a>

Days of Laughter Will Arrive - YY Moment

<a href="https://theyeshiva.net/jewish/9100/lecture-on-simchas-torah-massacre-gaza-war-in-this-war-we-are-all-soldiers-on-the-frontlines">Watch the full class here</a>

<a href="https://theyeshiva.net/jewish/9100/lecture-on-simchas-torah-massacre-gaza-war-in-this-war-we-are-all-soldiers-on-the-frontlines" rel="noopener noreferrer">Watch the full class here</a>

Our Inextinguishable Spark - YY Moment

Beneath the Pain There's Love - YY Moment

Our Children Will Remember This Time - YY Moment

Moral Insanity - YY Moment

The Lie of "Two Sides" - YY Moment

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