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Chassidus Morning Class by Rabbi YY Jacobson
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Ongoing classes in the texts of the Baal HaTanya, and other Chassidic masters, exploring the inner soul of Judaism and its spiritual/emotional lessons.
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The Gift of Our Generation: Healing Dissociation - Likkutei Torah Reah Anochi #3
6d ago01:43:56Tap to summarizeDon't Ask About the Pre-Creation Secrets; You Are the SecretThis is the third and final class in a series on a Maamar of the Alter Rebbe, "Re'eh Anochi," which he said on Shabbos Parshas Re'eh, 29 Av, 5558, August 11, 1798, published in Likkutei Torah Re'eh. It explores the four letters of Hashem's name embedded in each soul. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Friday, Parshas Re'eh, 24 Av, 5786, August 7, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9981
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How Do I Know If I Can Trust Rabbi YY's Classes? - Likkutei Torah Reah Anochi #2
1w ago01:38:28Tap to summarizeBefore All Survival Templates, There was the a Candle on top of Your HeadThis is the second class in a series on a Maamar of the Alter Rebbe, "Re'eh Anochi," which he said on Shabbos Parshas Re'eh, 29 Av, 5558, August 11, 1798, published in Likkutei Torah Re'eh. It explores the four letters of Hashem's name embedded in each soul. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, Parshas Re'eh, 23 Av, 5786, August 6, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9977
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Can I Give Myself Permission to Feel Truly Okay? - Likkutei Torah Reah Anochi #1
1w ago01:42:12Tap to summarizeIs G-d Exaggerating when He Wants Us to Love Him with All Our Heart?This is the first class in a series on a Maamar of the Altter Rebbe, "Reah Anochi," which he said on Shabbos Parshas Reah, 29 Av, 5558, August 11, 1798, published in Likkutei Torah Reah. It explores the four letters of Hashem's name embedded in each soul. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Monday, Parshas Re'eh, 20 Av, 5786, August 3, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. This class discusses the Yud and Hay engraved in our soul and what that means in our lives: the experience of surrender, and the understanding of Hashem's oneness. We discussed how religion can be an external experience, and how the trauma of exile has snuffed out from so many the internal embodied experience of the Divine. We also explained why Hashem asks us to love Him with all our hearts and souls; is that not exaggerated? What if the deepest pain you carry — beneath the marriage, the parnassah, the worries about the children — isn’t what you think it is? In this breathtaking article, based on Rabbi YY Jacobson’s class on the first maamar in Likkutei Torah, Parshas Re’eh, the Alter Rebbe reveals a secret that changes everything: at Matan Torah, Hashem embedded His very name — the Yud and the Hei, “two friends who are never separated” — into your soul. It’s why even the most distant Jew is flooded with regrets he never invited; it’s why we numb ourselves with a thousand distractions. We aren’t broken. We’re homesick. And once you see it, you can never unsee it. This is the Torah the Baal Shem Tov came to reveal — the heartbeat hidden in the holy books all along — brought down by the Alter Rebbe in one of the classic maamarim of Chassidus, and opened up by Rabbi YY with warmth, humor, and stunning honesty. You’ll discover why “k’lo chashiv” doesn’t mean you are nothing — it means nothing can distract you from how deeply okay you are; why your soul’s stubbornness is your greatest gift; and how five seconds a day of this truth can make your soul dance with the very simchah the Baal Shem Tov revealed. Read it slowly. Read it twice. This one is life-changing — and liberating. The first maamar in Likkutei Torah on Parshas Re’eh is one of the classics of Chassidus — a foundational maamar the Rebbe would reference again and again, because it explains how the very name of Hashem is embedded in the soul. The Alter Rebbe delivered it on Shabbos Parshas Re’eh, Erev Rosh Chodesh Elul, in the summer of 1798 — 5558 — the last Shabbos of the era we call “before Petersburg.” Weeks later, he would be arrested and taken to the capital; after his liberation on Yud-Tes Kislev, his maamarim underwent a major transformation. What follows is Torah from that first era, and it goes straight for the heart.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9975
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Is Your Anxiety an Awareness of the Divine? - Likkutei Torah Achas Shaalti
2w ago01:42:22Tap to summarizeThe Strange "Debate" Between King David and Hashem: I Learnt It All From YouThis class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Monday, Parshas Eikev, 13 Av, 5786, July 27, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9973
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How to End the Darkness Forever - Mammar Keitz Sum Lachoshech #7
3w ago02:00:38Tap to summarizeThe Revolution of the Alter Rebbe on How to Transform the World at Its CoreThis is the seventh and final class in a series on the Maamar (discourse) "Keitz Sam Lachoshech -- there is an end to the darkness," presented by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on Shabbos Tisha B'Av, 5724, July 18, 1964, based on a Maamar said by the Rebbe Rashab 50 years earlier, on Shabbos Tisha B'Av 5614, July 29, 1914, the day World War I Began. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Friday, Parshas Vaetchanan, 10 Av, 5786, July 24, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9971
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They Decided to Divorce -- That's When They Discovered Their Love - Mammar Keitz Sum Lachoshech #6
3w ago01:36:31Tap to summarizeThe Great Danger When You Think You Don't Need AttachmentThis is the sixth class in a series on the Maamar (discourse) "Keitz Sam Lachoshech -- there is an end to the darkness," presented by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on Shabbos Tisha B'Av, 5724, July 18, 1964, based on a Maamar said by the Rebbe Rashab 50 years earlier, on Shabbos Tisha B'Av 5614, July 29, 1914, the day World War I Began. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Wednesday, Parshas Vaetchanan, 8 Av, 5786, July 22, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9970
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Science Without Fear: Beyond the Illusion of Separation - Mammar Keitz Sum Lachoshech #5
3w ago01:50:58Tap to summarizeThe Interface: Unveiling Oneness to the Fabric of ExistenceThis is the fifth class in a series on the Maamar (discourse) "Keitz Sam Lachoshech -- there is an end to the darkness," presented by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on Shabbos Tisha B'Av, 5724, July 18, 1964, based on a Maamar said by the Rebbe Rashab 50 years earlier, on Shabbos Tisha B'Av 5614, July 29, 1914, the day World War I Began. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Monday, Parshas Vaetchanan, 6 Av, 5786, July 20, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9968
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True Faith Is Not Afraid of Intellectual Honesty - Mammar Keitz Sum Lachoshech #4
4w ago01:53:09Tap to summarizeWhat Is Emunah? Faith and Reason -- Three ApproachesThis is the fourth class in series on the Maamar (discourse) "Keitz Sam Lachoshech -- there is an end to the darkness," presented by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on Shabbos Tisha B'Av, 5724, July 18, 1964, based on a Maamar said by the Rebbe Rashab 50 years earlier, on Shabbos Tisha B'Av 5614, July 29, 1914, the day World War I Began. This class, exploring the relationship between faith and reason and three different approaches to the question, was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Friday, Parshas Devarim, 3 Av, 5786, July 17, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.
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What a Blessing That Inauthenticity Causes Deep Pain - Mammar Keitz Sum Lachoshech #3
4w agoTap to summarizeAs consciousness collides with infinity, you crack open: our three-step journey to truthThis is the third text-based class of a historic series on the Maamar (discourse) "Keitz Sam Lachoshech -- there is an end to the darkness," presented by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on Shabbos Tisha B'Av, 5724, July 18, 1964, based on a discourse presented by the Rebbe Rashab 50 years earlier, on Shabbos Tisha B'Av 5614, August 1, 1914, the day World War I Began. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, Parshas Devarim, 2 Av, 5786, July 16, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9965
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FINALLY! The Rebbe Cracks the Code of Anxiety - Mammar Keitz Sum Lachoshech #2
4w ago02:15:34Tap to summarizeHow Healthy Is Your Relationship with the Rebbe? The Three Levels of Bittul in the Divine Light — and What They Mean in Our LivesHow Healthy and Authentic Is Your Relationship with the Rebbe? This is the second text-based class of a historic series on the Maamar (discourse) "Keitz Sam Lachoshech -- there is an end to the darkness," presented by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on Shabbos Tisha B'Av, 5724, July 18, 1964, based on a Maamar said by the Rebbe Rashab 50 years earlier, on Shabbos Tisha B'Av 5614, July 29, 1914, the day World War I Began. This class, exploring the three states of "Bitul" in the "Divine light," was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Wednesday, Parshas Devarim, 1 Av, 5786, July 15, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9966
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