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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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  1. 1 day ago

    You Don't Need a New Life; You Need New Eyes: Hagar & Helen Keller - Women's Vayera Class

    The Ugliest Man Rabbi Elazar Ever Met Was Himself: The Most Disturbing Talmudic StoryWhen Hagar is dying of thirst beside her dying son, the Torah does not say that G-d created a well or sent an angel with water. It says something far more startling: vayifkach Elokim et eineha — "G-d opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water." The water was already there. The salvation was already within reach. She was weeping over the absence of something that was fully present — she simply could not see it. Building on the Chiddushei HaRim (quoted by the Sfas Emes) — that everything a person needs already stands before him, if only he would open his eyes to see it — this class explores the quiet miracle that is harder than any splitting of the sea: not G-d changing our reality, but G-d changing the way we see the reality we already have. From Helen Keller's awakening at a water pump, to Otto Frank discovering the inner world of a daughter he thought he knew, we confront how even profound love can fail to truly see the human being standing in front of us. The class then turns inward through one of the strangest stories in the Talmud (Taanis 20b): Rabbi Elazar, flush with Torah and pride, insults an "exceedingly ugly" man — who, the Tosafos tell us, may have been Elijah himself, and who, on a deeper level, may have been Rabbi Elazar's own soul confronting his own ego. "Go tell the Craftsman who made me how ugly is the vessel He fashioned." We learn that the soul has no shame — only the ego does; that to call ourselves ugly or worthless is to speak against the One who created us; and that real growth comes not from self-contempt but from self-respect, from seeing ourselves as we were before the trauma and before the shame. We meet people only as deeply as we meet ourselves. The same open eyes that let Hagar see the well let us finally see our spouse, our parents, our children — and ourselves. The well is already there. Our work is to open our eyes. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Tuesday, Parshas Vayeira, 16 Cheshvan, 5787, October 27, 2026. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10015

  2. 6 days ago

    Frisch Teens Challenge Rabbi YY Jacobson - Q & A with Rabbi YY

    Why Does G-d Allow Evil? Why Are Prayers Unanswered? And What If Judaism Feels Boring?

  3. 6 days ago

    The Secret the Rebbe Revealed to Heal a Broken Generation - Mayim Rabim 5738 #4

    If You Could See What G-d Sees in You, Would You Ever Feel Worthless Again?This class is the fourth  in a series on the Maamar Mayim Rabim, said by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Motzei Shabbos Parshas Noach, 3 Cheshvan, 5738, October 15, 1977, in his room. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on 11 Cheshvan, 5787, October 22, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10011

  4. 20 Oct

    What If Everything Going Wrong Is Part of Something Going Right? - Women's Lech Lecha Class

    The Life You Planned vs. The Life G-d Has Planned for You: Why Surrendering Control Is the Beginning of Your Deepest Love and Truest SelfThe life you planned vs. the life G-d has planned for you: Why surrendering control may be the beginning of your greatest freedom, deepest love, and truest self. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on 9 Cheshvan, 5787, October 20, 2026. We tell the story of the plumber who entered a cockpit and saved an airplane, the story of Pharaoh’s daughter who stretched out her arm to reach the unreachable, and a captive in Gaza who prays for rain, and it saves his life. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10009

  5. 19 Oct

    This is the Moment G-d Has Been Waiting for Since Before Creation - Mayim Rabim 5738 #3

    Six Thousand Years of History, Infinite Worlds, and Unimaginable Sacrifice—All Waiting for You to Choose Love over FearTHE CHOICE IN TIME THAT FULFILLS THE DREAM BEYOND TIME: Before there was time, space, or existence, G-d dreamed of one moment, the moment you would turn toward Him. What if your next choice changes everything—even for G-d? The astonishing secret of how your smallest act of love and truth constitutes the purpose of everything. Hashem did not envision an idealized soul floating above struggle. Before creation, He held the image of you as you are here: human, vulnerable, facing concealment, and still capable of choosing truth and love. The world was created so that the love known beyond time could become a relationship freely chosen within time. This class is the third in a series on the Maamar Mayim Rabim, said by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Motzei Shabbos Parshas Noach, 3 Cheshvan, 5738, October 15, 1977, in his room. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Monday, 8 Cheshvan, 5787, October 19, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10008

  6. 15 Oct

    What If Your Anxiety Is Leading You to Your Deepest Love? - Mayim Rabim 5738 #2

    What You’re Most Ashamed Of May Be Your Greatest GiftThe flood within you may not be trying to erase your soul. Beneath the anxiety, shame, brokenness, and overwhelm may lie an intensity of light that once exceeded your vessels. Your deepest work is not to destroy that energy, but to build the vessels that can finally receive its love. This class is the second in a series on the Maamar Mayim Rabim, said by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Motzei Shabbos Parshas Noach, 3 Cheshvan, 5738, October 15, 1977, in his room. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, Parshas Noach, 4 Cheshvan, 5787, October 15, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10005

  7. 15 Oct

    I'm Still Single, and It's Breaking My Heart - Conversation with Older Singles, United Kingdom

    Does Anyone Understand the Pain of Being Single? Has Hashem Forgotten Me?Rabbi YY Jacobson addressed older singles in the United Kingdom on the pain, challenge, and opportunity of being single.   Ohel Sarah and Bonei Olam UK arranged the lecture, followed by Q and A, on Wednesday, 3 Cheshvan, 5787, October 14, 2026.

  8. 13 Oct

    Before the Shame, You Already Had a Name: The Tower of Babel - Women's Noach Class

    Stop Building Towers to Prove You Exist: The Burden of Shame, and the Search for Your True NameThis class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on 2 Cheshvan, 5787, October 13, 2026 View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10004

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    Rabbi YY Jacobson
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
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    1.5k
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