About 25 years ago, Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Jacobson received a chilling "prophecy" from Rabbi Adin Even Israel (Steinsaltz).
""You will succeed greatly," the rabbi told him, "but the danger is that one day you will wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and discover that you are left with only a 'mouthpiece' – an empty instrument that can make beautiful sounds, but has no inner life.".
In a deep, personal, and moving lesson on Parashat Vara, Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Jacobson reveals his personal struggle with the feelings of "oral" - life beyond language and beyond.
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He reveals why external success, compliments, and approval don't fill the inner void, and how the search for perfection becomes hard work.
Through Noam Elimelech's revolutionary interpretation of Pharaoh's request to "give you a sign," we will learn how to change the frequency in life: from seeking external approval and impressing the environment, to a true inner connection and becoming a "conduit" to Divine abundance.
We will learn how to stop living from ego and the feeling of success and move to a sense of mission and a sense of privilege to be a conduit; how to experience true success, which is not tied to reality and free will, and how to maintain freshness, excitement, and truth even after decades of doing.
