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Yiddish/English | Why Are There Souls With Special Needs?
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Satmar Rebbe Explains Why David HaMelech Wanted to Go Each Morning to Theatres Rabbi YY Jacobson's speech to employees and volunteers of "Rayim", dedicated to help those in our community with special needs. Presented on Wednesday, 23 Kislev, 5781, December 9, 2020, New Windsor, NY To watch more classes & to read Rabbi YY's articles visit: https://www.theyeshiva.net Follow Rabbi YY Jacobson: Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheYeshiva Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheYeshiva Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yyjacobson Twitter: https://twitter.com/YYJacobson Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yyjacobson/ #specialneeds #yiddish #rabbiyyjacobson
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okay yeah
now sometimes if you grow up with the
language
you feel more sophisticated if you hear
another language you know what i mean
you do see right away writer is going to
be muslim the
and there's english and scrambling right
okay
sure
is
foreign
is undersearchless they have a different
type of
missile a different type of mission
and i'll start with telling a story
that i heard from the bala mice himself
who happens to be my brother my older
brother
his name is and he shared with me the
story
they told me that he was once giving a
shirt to manhattan
and a man walked in sat in the back
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and this is a shield that's dedicated
for jews who didn't grow up with uh
jews from manhattan who come from very
different backgrounds but they want to
discover yiddish
this man walks in looks like 30 years
old 29 years old
that's the quebec in the back my brother
sees that he's crippled a little bit
it's hard for him to move
his motor skills are compromised he has
disabilities
he's there for six months never says a
word
he was shocked of hashem after six
months after the sheer
he asked my brother if i could talk to
you
first time they have a conversation
with
and the man starts talking my brother
sees his speech is also imperial
it's very hard for him to communicate
verbally and he says
i have a different type of story i was
born with a rear
neurological disease
my nelton and my tattoo mama was void in
manhattan
very affluent and they're part of the
social fabric of manhattan
heint is manhattan for de
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is
foreign
the doctor tells my mother and father
this is going to change your life
this boy is going to unfortunately have
to have constant medical care
and a lot of therapy it's going to
change your life after height
what a special needs trial does to a
father and a mother and a michelle
somebody who doesn't know doesn't know
they'll never understand they think
they're stressed
they're pressured yankee kim times or he
needs potato chips
this one doesn't have a menova we didn't
get the wicks there's no doughnuts we're
late for the hanukkah
party that's distressed
enough to explain to this crowd what
families go through everything changes
so mad off behind they're not taking me
home
take me home they'll put me in an
institution
they'll take care of me but they never
came to visit
they didn't want to connect 30 years i
never met my father and mother
my brother said they live in the city
yeah i never met them
i checked a check
make sure i have whatever i need a
part-time job i'll to get
but i never met my parents
i met your son tonight
i really think but boom
i clapped with the telephone there's a
dial tone
my brother thinks they got disconnected
okay he calls back
he's like you don't understand that i
hung up the phone on you it wasn't
disconnected i disconnected you
let me just remember he says give me
don't talk to me about this
mr christopher 11 who gives you a right
invite
and she says
my husband and i made a decision 30
years ago
don't ask us to revisit this decision
what my brother tells her listen
mention it
you know people who don't lost their
father lost their mother i know i told
somebody i knew your father
tell me a story about my father tell me
a story about my mother
tell me they'll tell me i never knew my
mother i never knew my father
so
it doesn't make sense say get fire say
get fire and what's going to happen
should
i stick it out you're not changing
diapers
he's not even asking to live in your
house what's wrong
my husband's decision
okay let's talk to your nightmares
afghanistan and
nighttime clapping the telephone i
roofed up the titan
when i get them to the russia he didn't
hang up on him he said lumber about
father says he could come for a visit
he could
house on top of central park in
manhattan
my brother told me i never knew that it
was such a big house i mean manhattan
came up and
something magnificent
some
you talk about the weather you talk
about the president of the united states
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which one you figure it out you talk
about in america sunday afternoon you
talk about football
seminars
it's good for him to meet his father and
mother and it's good for his father and
mother to meet him
they should be able to get to know each
other you're one you're a family
my brother tells me what happened next
opens his mouth and he says something to
his father and mother
it's the first conversation he's having
with his father and mother
since he was born he never saw them he
never spoke to them
all he got from them were checks
and he says these words in english and
my brother said i knew that he had to
in these words because it was not easy
for him to say
the words came out painfully so he had
to memorize the words he had to repair
it
he looks at his mother and he looks at
his father and he says these words he
says
mama he couldn't say mommy because his
speech was impaired he could say
mama he couldn't say mommy said mama
papa he couldn't say palak in america
pop
pow danny you couldn't do mama poppa
i am not perfect
but mama and papa you're also
not perfect mama and papa
i have forgiven you
for being imperfect i hope
one day you'll be able to forgive
me for being imperfect
that i secure from repressed emotions
that i secure
you become alienated from yourself that
is
he hugged his son my brother tells me he
says
why why at that moment i felt like a
shopkin
business
i didn't belong there but i found the
mens
i turned to both of them i think all
three of them i said
i think i'm gonna say goodbye have a
beautiful day
it was a pleasure thank you and he left
this and i felt like a shopkin without
getting the check
i left the house
they were reunited father mother and
child reunited that day
when i heard that it made me aware it
made me realize
this powerful powerful question
that is really a question that could
only come from such a person
and that question is
did i really really forgive
can i really forgive my child for not
being perfect
can i forgive my spouse for not being
perfect
can i forgive my parents for not being
perfect
and maybe one of the harder ones can i
forgive
myself for not being perfect
jews have a hard time somebody once
asked me what's the definition of a jew
i said if he doesn't feel guilty he
blames himself
can i forgive myself
everybody in this room i would say has
the privilege the schools
to deal in one way or another with those
neshamas
that were sent down to this world as i
said with a different mission
completely different
and we don't know the secret of any soul
we don't know
if you have a jew a person special needs
doesn't function well can't function
well
can think well can't hold a regular job
once a comment is
and they say give us one jew
nephesh means well give us such a type
of drew
if not we kill everybody
everybody
you have 20 000 people
they should all die come on does it make
sense
like negate for an occult perspective of
logic
doesn't make sense
perspective that you don't know the
value of an
it was based in the shop
and he was there for a long time the
money come to rain
and he was there for five minutes he
went out and he was upset
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the lift the kites the royalty the
maljos
it's a simple stone but as mosby this
quality that quality
i quality i'm sorry
garnish he got frustrated
he got frustrated and he
is
special needs
the shama i've developed
when i mentioned
the tacklers versus the indian
the regular nasir the regular mahalik
doesn't exist
or your wives know from experience all
of you that deal with this direct
the um direct
what's the point of these souls and i
don't
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that is there are souls they don't have
to come down
to work on themselves they don't have to
come down to be fixed
they don't have to come down some of
vares is
but when they come down they allow us
they allow us to do what we have to do
they given one's perspective
they make us normal they make us normal
they make us humble
they make us balanced they teach us
patience
we live in a world i have to always go
to the next thing
dina sharmas teach you there's no next
thing this moment is a present
they don't live planning tomorrow next
year millionaire three years a
billionaire
five years above jeff bezos
is that finally allen meisters and
williamsburg and the minerals
i'm
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who is the most important person
you're ever going to meet in your life
and the answer is the person you're
talking to
right now what is the most important
moment in your life and the answer is
the moment
you are present in right now and what is
the most important place you'll ever be
in your life and the answer is
i don't have to say it in english
so
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this is where it's at life is happening
right now
this is where it's all at these nashamas
live that way they teach it to us
they teach us to be present you know
that they are so sensitive they're so in
their own way they're so
sensitive
is busy with the phones and everybody
became a multi-tasker
you're sending what's-ups you're
listening to what's up you're nominating
presidents you're firing presidents
this doesn't exist could you be in a
relationship with me
could you touch me could you feel me so
these souls they teach
us they teach us what it means to be
human often
adl kite good skies
so it helps they don't hit in the
supermarkets they drain
the coffee table the cabbage table they
don't drink coffee
the innocence the purity
i don't know what they need faith
that they bring goodness to a world
even beyond of what we understand
consciously
when i feel a mere unconsciously
they also teach us
the inner was handled with assaulting us
is always
challenged to ask himself or herself
deep questions
they challenge you not with words but
with their being
they make they make us ask deeper
questions who we are
because
people are busy impressing each other
i'm trying to impress you
you're trying to impress me
is the kenoif more superficial media
mentioned nobody's impressing anybody
you can't impress me
and i'm not here to impress you so you
start asking yourself what's real
what's not real versus 11
11.
and the different version of the
different before should i explain
i plan to go to a savoy desire
i plan to go to tiatroyas to theaters
i plan to go to plays i plan to go to
coliseums
gymnasiums sports centers
i had a whole plan for entertainment
today
i had different plans i already put into
ways in the gps i put it away is mcgate
levi's playing the imagination
resolution welcome bottom
button i'll be right like the fizz
the way says sorry you got to make a
left
the fists
right
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bombs
in the flea i'm against that's like a
shimaka club
and by the way if you're doing it
already don't do it in the morning ask
the guys
for like seven in the morning for
sinking
okay so marble cake
but you have to know
i'm not the biggest but i know that
seven in the morning
you know what the answer is unbelievable
unbelievable ants
if i could say this it's a stops answer
but it's a real kabat scans you'll soon
see why
this is what he says he says the gemara
is october
gymnasiums and colosseums and stadiums
and gladiators
alts witness hypocrites
is
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foreign
the innocence the purity from david
elects it
versus hashem
section for children with special needs
it was sponsored by the government
a special section with special needs and
there was a special part of the day was
it for prayer for davonin
and they used to darwin every day the
1970s
one of the first things that they
outlawed was prayer in public schools
we don't want to send our kids to to
religious jewish schools
politics and corruption and they'll not
educate the kids
i said where do you want to send them so
the kids should come out mention
go to public schools i said listen
if you hear my spay in my life i said if
you hear my speeches you know
i have some comments about our schools i
make some comments about our schools our
yeshivas our systems
i don't think we're perfect you won't
suspect me from all people
that i think everything is perfect i get
accused of
saying things that you're not going to
say you're fine right i'm wrong
i said so you can trust me one thing you
go
whatever whatever you want one thing you
won't find not in the misift is not an
elementary school
metal detectors the menu doesn't say i'm
afraid that this
boy this boy yeah i found one that will
probably come in
come in with a rifle there's 26 kids in
their mouth
so just remember that remember that
it's not like even we have our problems
we have our problem
where do you think this comes from this
is a gift
thousands of years toys into your honest
it's a gift
card
and a priest and a minister and they
were sitting in starbucks
coffee latte for 9 50.
so what's up my name is
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so the priest says let me tell you what
i would like to hear at my leviah
israel somebody should say he was a true
servant of the lord and the minister
says
i would like to hear somebody say at my
funeral he was a real
friend you could rely on him rabbi how
about you
represent i would love to hear somebody
say at my funeral
you know i think he's moving
that's what i would really that's what i
would really love
schwarzkopf
so they asked him they asked him
what's your opinion about terrorists
should we forgive terrorists
she said it's not our job to forgive
terrorists it's god's job
our job is to arrange the meeting
we've got them
and solid them i told them
before your criticism appreciate this
appreciate the value of life
and i believe it's one of the great
siblings why
they became dangerous places
and values
because the school the the section for
special needs
is governmentally sponsored
church the state agape
is religion
the head of the hospital this is in the
70s
the llamas i think three or four pages
you're right to the head of the hospital
the head of the department
like in special needs children he said i
want you to think about something
special needs children
can't communicate with the world like
everybody else say happiness to potencia
but they're people and they're full of
love do you know how much pain they have
inside
we may not see it but they know that
people don't understand them
they know that people don't get them the
way they know it we don't even know how
they know it
because they operate in their own world
opposition is in this convention so i've
been right to grace in the summers
i've been hoping there's in
he takes a net he puts it down in the
pacific ocean farah yard side
with 10 inches
alexanus he makes a fool out of himself
in your dining room there's a goldfish
this is no fish in the pacific small
intended
he's swearing what was the problem
the holes in the net were 10 inches
of course there's no fish smaller than
10 inches your net can pick up
fish less than 10 inches first taste
the net that you use to catch the fish
that's going to determine how large the
fish are
the kylie was if used the instruments
i look at a person i can't communicate
with you
my net is 10 inches if candidates happen
so what do i say
you're not normal why are you not normal
because i
is everything is based on me
well maybe you could be a little humble
maybe there's other nets
but most of us we called
regular people
to the music
as analy and he said we the community
people we don't yet we don't yet
have the tools to be able to get them
and they know it they know it
who could understand them
he made their prey he made their genes
he made their chromosomes
he designed their cells he knows them
aina the boiler islam is the
eight-second
says do you know what
prayer means for these souls that they
can talk
every day to the only one who really
really gets them
and now you're going to take this away
from them
and keep them with people all day you're
going to take this away from them
then i realized we really have to expand
our net
or shrink our net
and the most powerful and impactful
things in life
you can't see with your eyes if you see
it with your eyes it's not too powerful
the biggest most powerful things you
never saw you never will see well
marshall
cardona karana
because you know how many coronaviruses
can fit on this
on the depends on the eraser of a pencil
you know how many
3.6 billion first days 3.6 billion could
fit on this
if i was the size of the corona you can
have 3.6 billion of me
on this but i'm not planning to lose so
much weight
so fast
who could see it we can we can see a
corona did the coronavirus have an
impact what do you say
god's fine not bad for a loser that you
can't see
not bad
again we'll find him keep it
so somebody says please relax
so i said let me tell you a story it
happened last december 2019
it's a fictional myself
i went to visit
tell me you have leadership skills mr
samanik he says me
that marketplace to buy a couple of bats
to feed my children
i don't have global limb
emitting the conversation his name is
he sneezed he sneezed
that's what he did and a few months
later
7.7 billion lives
were changed from this man who has no
leadership skills
and no global impact he just sneezed
and everybody went on lockdown besides
of course
just like glo i always say global
warming goes to miami los angeles
doesn't come to new york
the corona also didn't come to certain
places
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you'll watch my clips and you'll see
what i have to say about that at least
a few months
but in any case don't say you don't have
an impact
the person says what i don't do doesn't
mean anything
we waste the most powerful things we
don't
see the atom bomb
nuclear energy anybody ever saw an atom
nobody ever saw that electricity is
pretty powerful electricity
anybody ever saw electricity nobody ever
saw interest
the cells in your body the genes in your
body everybody ever saw a cell
it's pretty powerful stuff what we see
is not so powerful
it's what the eye can tough design
what the eye doesn't see is much more
real it's much deeper
the nets that we use to be typhus
reality is always
limited according to our twister when it
comes to these neshamas
we see it the worst thing i can do is
i judge him and i put him into the
category
of the normal people it's such a
guy it's such a cutscene it's worse
it's stupidity it's superficial it's
kindness
is essential to claudius
on behalf not only of those people but
on behalf of
claudius when you take care of my
brother or my sister
i say thank you
from the tipster
is
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yes
he sends him to somebody else
the story when that giver came to the
div the person said
i
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that's not fear i call you a mensch and
i call you a mensch
on you your wife says i serve and his
wife says
i said both i mentioned not fair so
you'll answer depends on the wife
depends on the speaker
but let me tell you what the sounds are
of sir he said
i've understated but look at the context
was truth
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no family no wives no children no more
no support
oh yaakov alone nobody's here
vulnerable vulnerable
you abuse him you exploit him you attack
i'm
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you deal with the vulnerable among us
with people who can defend themselves
and they're so vulnerable because
they're so innocent say they sinners
say lebanese
i want to be close i also want to be
loved
i also want to love i also want
connection
i also cry i also laugh
disabled abnormal
strange doesn't fit into society
doesn't get it yiddish
and you are the people who day in and
day out look at them and say
matavakish and then you listen to the
answer
mention of patience to freggin shilas
but they don't have patience to listen
somebody once asked me what's up nick he
didn't know he came in
i guess somebody called him
i didn't know what to say i said
somebody you ask him
my father is upset the bank wants to
take away the house
yankee was thrown out of yeshiva sort of
late
i didn't mean to hear vos herzeg he was
supposed to say
buddha
is
everybody is searching for their
brothers trust me i meet a lot of people
what do people want they want connection
that's what they want when divas are in
the grace of geniuses
we don't need connection they want it
even more they're just afraid they don't
know how to deal with it so they run
away to the books
they want it even more this is loytoy
and you give them that connection for
who don't always know how to say the
words thank you and make dinners
and diplomats and announce it
and
the first time in my life that i see
angels recently i don't see usually
usually i get up to give a speech
i remember to finish i was once out of
speech sabaton in
arizona sedona arizona
floyd robertson esther young rice
see is given from ghanaian
so i remember she spoke before me so she
was about shabbos sedona sedona arizona
that
is
and i heard this from her and since then
many many shabbatons that i went to
different communities i always tell them
stressed everybody's rests so far quran
suddenly you realize all your little
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young man
everything
and you put the iron on the left an iron
what is it i look at a person i
look at a child you say your stick
i look at the same person and i'm in a
bad mood i'm depressed
but i'm making up words but that's the
matter
guys
you have to change the i in the
perspective the same person
you look and you see a malach same
person you look
and you see something else
you look at these kids these adults
and you see malachim and in that process
you become aloha and you make the world
a beautiful holy place until that moment
in our stadiums
amen
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