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Every Destructive Pattern Once Helped You Survive. How to Uncover Its Origins, Heal the Wound, and Become Free This Chabad Chassidic discource is the ultimate manual for healing trauma, addiction, and emotional pain. This is the first of a series of classes on the Maamar (discourse) Yafeh Sha'ah Achas (מאמר יפה שעה אחת) by the Miteler Rebbe, published in Maamarei Admur Haemtzarei (מאמרי אדמו"ר האמצעי קונטריסים).  The class by Rabbi YY Jacobson was presented on Monday, Parshas Toldos, 29 Cheshvan, 5787, November 9, 2026.   View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10024

You Can't Fake Shabbos: The Way We Eat, Pray and Live All Week Determines Whether Shabbos Becomes an Escape -- or a Revelation This class is the second and final in a series on the Maamar Yegaleh Lan Taamei, presented by the Alter Rebbe on Shabbos Tetzaveh, 5567 (1807), published in Torah Or Parshas Chayei Sarah. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, Parshas Chaye Sarah, 25 Cheshvan, 5787, November 5, 2026. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10023

I'm Healing My Relationship with Food This class is the first in a series on the Maamar Yegaleh Lan Taamei, presented by the Alter Rebbe on Shabbos Tetzaveh, 5567 (1807), published in Torah Or Chayei Sarah. The class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Monday, Parshas Chayei Sarah. 22 Cheshvan, 5787, November 2, 2026. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10021

Moshiach Is When the Two Faces Finally Meet This class is the fifth and final one 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 17 Cheshvan, 5787, October 28, 2026. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10016

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

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

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

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

Don't Let Your Violin Become a Doorstop: Work Hard, But Don't Surrendering Your Integrity & SerenityThis class is the first in a series on the Maamar Mayim Rabim, said by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Motzei Shabos Parshas Noach, 3 Cheshvan, 5738, October 15, 1977, in his room. Presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on 1 Cheshvan, 5787, October 12, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. Do not use your violin as a doorstep, and your telescope as a soup mixer. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10003

The Anatomy of Ecstasy: How Joy Was Reinvented at Simchas Beis HashoavahThis class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on 11 Tishrei, 5787, September 22, 2026. The joy of Sukkos cannot merely mean relief that the Yamim Noraim are over. Relief is valuable, but it is not the explosive simcha described by Torah and Chazal. Every night of Sukkos in the Beis Hamikdash, multitudes gathered in Jerusalem. Great sages danced and juggled flaming torches. Light flooded the city. Before dawn, a procession descended to the Shiloach spring, drew water, and carried it upward with shofar blasts. The water was poured on the mizbeach together with the morning offering. Was this joy only because Yom Kippur is over? That seems strange. So what is the secret of this intense joy? The Mishnah says (Sukkah 51b), One who never witnessed Simchas Beis Hashoavah, the Sages declare, never witnessed joy in life. But why? And why say it in the negative? And also why be “stingy” with joy? Maybe a person did experience happiness in another setting or environment! How can anyone state that “if you did not come to my wedding, you never saw joy!” It seems very strange. The class delves deeply into the secret of the schism of the water on day two of creation and how the joy of Sukkot heals the tension that has become part of the fabric of life. The class shows how the deepest gift we can bring into the sukkah is not perfection on the table; it is a living heart, present enough to channel joy, love, and the flow of Hashem. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9995

As I Find My Core, The Divine Bliss Is Revealed Inside of MeThis class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Wednesday, 27 Elul, 5786, September 9, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.    View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9992

The Sound of 'Tzimtzum:' What Our Generation Is Detecting This is the fourth class in a series on the Maamar Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashanah said by the Alter Rebbe for Rosh Hashanah 5571, September 29, 1810, which came out on Shabbos. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Monday, 25 Elul, 5786, September 7, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. In this section, the Alter Rebbe describes the greatest love story ever told; yet the ego refuses to believe it. How vulnerable and blissful to experience, in an embodied way, that I am the best thing that happened to Hashem?   How the Alter Rebbe healed the "trauma" of the "yesh," the sense of ego and separateness, which is the core of all our anxiety. Take your "yesh" seriously, but realize what is its true story: Hashem in His essence wantinbg to have an authentic relationship with YOU. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9990

How You Coronate G-d: You Feel Your Resistance and Choose Trust This is the third class in a series on the Maamar Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashanah said by the Alter Rebbe for Rosh Hashanah 5571, September 29, 1810, which came out on Shabbos. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Thursday, 21 Elul, 5786, September 3, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.  The Alter Rebbe explores the meaning of the Divine attribute of Malchus, responsible for generating the consciousness of separateness and finitude, which allows us to choose trust. Forget ego-death. Hold on to your ego, trauma, and anxiety and surrender it. You are my king, and I am your servant.  View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9989

What Happens to the Soul when It Departs from the Body? This is the second class in a series on the Maamar Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashanah said by the Alter Rebbe for Rosh Hashanah 5571, September 29, 1810, which came out on Shabbos. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Wednesday, 20 Elul, 5786, Sep. 2, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.  The class delves deeper into the two states of consciousness, Igulim and Yosher. Where we are submerged in the source, like the photon in the sun, the stop in the ocean, and the fetus in the womb, to where we emerge as "something," and the source turns into "no-thing." We discuss why Moshe did not want to be a leader, and why so severe a penalty for expressing a halacha in front of your Rebbe. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9988

If All Your Journeys Are Not Bringing You to Infinite Humility -- You're on another Ego Trip This is the first class in a series on the Maamar Yom Tov Shel Rosh Hashanah said by the Alter Rebbe for Rosh Hashanah 5571, September 29, 1810, which came out on Shabbos. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Monday, 18 Elul, 5786, August 31, 2026, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.  The Alter Rebbe asks how the sages could cancel for the entire Jewish nation the Torah mitzvah to hear Shofar on Rosh Hashanah when it falls out on Shabbos, just because some individual may come to carry it? The maamar delves into the theme of Igulim and Yosher, the higher and lower levels of unity, two states of consciousness: In one, the creation is submerged in source, with no visible identity; in the other, it emerges as an autonomous reality. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/9982