Welcome to Monday Torah, a weekly online class with Rabbi YY Jacobson, a world renowned lecturer and spiritual leader of Congregation Bais Shmuel Chabad in Brooklyn.
This week he explains how Hashem showed Moshe that his entire life was not a failure as he thought. It was the same advice that Dr. Sigmund Freud, “father of psychoanalysis,” gave the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn<.strong> OBM.
This class, aired weekly on TheYeshiva.net and on COLLive, is one you don’t want to miss.
who read the title and arent interested in the whole video, the rebbe rashabs story is at 43:10
http://col.org.il/show_news.rtx?artID=55582
Recently released documents reveal the Rebbe Rashab visited Freud in his capacity as a neurologist for electroshock therapy to the Rebbe’s arm, not for psychoanalysis. This famous conversation was an incidental chat held on the side.
And we know that he did *not* consult Freud as a psychologist, but as a neurologist. That’s why he’s not mentioned in Freud’s diaries. Any conversation they had while he was being treated was just ordinary chatter between two brilliant people, not therapy.
Rabbi Jacobson passes along other’s ideas of WHY the Rasha”b went to Dr. Freud. It is based on a Reshima which is misunderstood. The facts as seen in Igros from the Rebbe Rashab is that the Rebbe Rashab went to see him because of his hand. He lost feeling in his hand and Freud was practicing Electric Shock treatment on the Rasha”b. It was during these procedures that the Rasha”b discussed these issues with Freud because (as the Reshima says) he was beNefilas Haruach. To suggest that the Rasha”b went to see Freud for counseling is misinterpreting the facts. Freud… Read more »
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HaShem has truly blessed R’Jacobson, especially from the view-point of his mental acuity and superb ability to articulate
Torah to both the scholarly and the simple.
Yashar Koach, R’Jacobson!
Who was giving who advice?