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Why No Biblical Leprosy Today? - Likkutei Torah Adam Ki Yeyeh Apr 14, 2015

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The Meztora Was Actually on a Lofty Level
Why No Biblical Leprosy Today? Likkutei Torah Tazria Maamar Adam Ki Yeyeh.
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The Case For and Against Marriage - Lecture, Chabad of the Upper East Side Mar 31, 2015

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We Were Created to Laugh. Is There Anything More Funny than Marriage?

A hilarious and depth-filled talk on the true meaning of marriage and relationships according to the Torah and Kabbalah, delivered at Chabad of the Upper East Side, February 23, 2015.

Your 15 Step Program Toward Inner Liberation Mar 29, 2015

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How to Experience a Transformative Seder

At this lecture at Chabad of Aventure, Florida (8 Nissan 5774, April 8, 2014), Rabbi YY Jacobson explains how the Passover Seder is an opportunity to access freedom in our personal and collective lives. It consists of an intense fifteen-step program, a blueprint toward psychological, emotional, and spiritual liberation. This lecture consists of a brief description of the inner work taking place during each of the fifteen steps.

Yiddish: Five Levels of Personal Liberation - Likkutei Sichos Vaeira/Pesach Mar 29, 2015

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The Four Elements & the Fifth Dimension -- In Chemistry, Halacha, and Kabbalah

We say in the Haggadah: "Rabbi Eliezer says, every plague that G-d brought upon the Egyptians in Egypt was comprised of four plagues. Rabbi Akiva says:Every plague that G-d brought upon the Egyptians in Egypt was comprised of five plagues.”

What is the logic behind the argument? In this Sicha of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Likkutei Sichos Vaeira vol. 16), taught by Rabbi YY Jacobson in 1998 in Monsey, NY, shows how this debate mirrors a larger debate about the meaning of chametz on Pesach. Finally, we explore this argument in the psychological and spiritual life of the human being.

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3 Names of Pesach -- 3 Steps Toward Self Transformation - Likkutei Sichos Pesach Mar 29, 2015

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Self Abnegation, Self Actualization, and Rebirth

self-abnegation, self actualization, and rebirth The Torah calls it “The Festival of Matzot.” Twenty-two generations later, when the hundred and twenty members of the “Great Assembly” formulated a text for the daily and seasonal prayers, they added the name, “Season of our Freedom.”

Ultimately, however, the festival came to be called by the sages of the Talmud and everyone else by yet a third name—“Passover.” Why the three names? What do they represent? In truth, these three names reflect the three-step program toward freedom.

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How Matzah Protects the Integrity of Divine Energy Mar 24, 2015

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Likkutei Torah Maamar Lehavin Mah Shekasuv Behagadah Matzah Zu - Class 2

Tzav-Pesach - Maamar Lehavin Mah Shekasuv Behagadah Matzah Zu - Class 2

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The Four Sons Asking the Four Big Questions on Judaism - Sefas Emes Pesach Mar 22, 2015

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Judaism is Insane; I am Worthless; Who Needs G-d?; I Just Don’t Care

Who are the four children of the Haggadah? Why are they central to our Passover experience? What are their questions and why are these questions so important?

The premise to answering all of these questions is that these four children are not external to us; they are within each of us: within each of our hearts, there are “four children” who ask four distinct questions.

What are the four biggest questions on Judaism? 1) The strange laws that we simply cannot wrap our brains ahead. I get the justice aspect of Judaism, but black boxes on my head? 2) How can small people really believe that G-d cares about their actions? 3) I lead my own life and define my own destiny. I don’t need G-d. In our world of science and technology, the old needs are gone. 4) I simply don’t care.

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Burning the Chametz: A Talmudic and Spiritual Analysis - Pesach Class Mar 22, 2015

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Do I Have to Purchase Chametz to Fulfill the Mitzvah of Destroying It? Do I Need to Struggle In Order to Serve G-d?

The class explores the famous question of the Minchas Chinuch (By Rabbi Yosef Bavad), if the mitzvah the eliminate chametz before Pesach is fulfilled through the active action of destroying chametz, or perhaps via the passive reality of not having chametz.

The class discusses the ramifications of this in Halacha, and then explains both perspectives from a spiritual point of view. The two views represents two paths in the service of G-d.

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The Infinite Love of G-d Even to the Sinner - Likutei Sichos Vayikra Mar 16, 2015

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An Analysis of a Strange Rashi about a Community Sin Sacrifice Teaches Us About Our Profound Dignity

This textual class in Likkutei Sichos explores a strange Rashi about a Community Sin Sacrifice. We discover the infinite love of G-d even to the sinner and explores how G-d reacts to Jewish sins.

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The Subconscious Sin - Vayikra Class Mar 15, 2015

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Why Are We Guilty for Unintentional Sins? Four Perspectives

One set of sacrifices, set out in detail in the portion of Vayikra is the “chatas,” the “sin offering,” which was offered for an inadvertent transgression. But why should unintentional sins require atonement? What guilt is involved?

The sinner did not mean to sin. Had the offender known the facts and the law at the time, he would not have done what he did. Why then does he have to undergo a process of atonement?

The class explores four perspectives, which present the Torah’s approach to the moral life and the human soul. It culminates with a penetrating insight into the Torah’s appreciation of the subconscious personality and its impact on our behavior. The “Freudian Slip” originates in Vayikra.

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