All Classes

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

80 Years Later: A Miracle in Auschwitz The heartbreaking regrets of the dying reveal an uncomfortable truth: We spend our lives seeking approval, hiding our authentic selves, and forgetting why we came into this world. Abraham and Sarah offer another way. G-d promised him a nation, a homeland, and an extraordinary future. At 137, he had no grandchildren and not even a burial plot. Yet he was blessed with everything. What did Abraham understand that we are missing? Why is a Torah portion about death called Chayei Sarah, the Life of Sarah? Because Abraham and Sarah reveal the secret of a meaningful existence: Live authentically, embrace your divine mission, stop chasing approval, and discover the serenity that comes from knowing why you are alive. This life-changing class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Tuesday, Parshas Chayei Sarah, 23 Cheshvan, 5787, November 3, 2026. View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10022

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

Why Do I Care That I Don't Care? How to Transform Your Emptiness Into the Greatest Breakthrough of Your Life This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on 18 Cheshvan, 5787, October 29, 2026.     View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10017

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

The Ugliest Man Rabbi Elazar Ever Met Was Himself: The Most Disturbing Talmudic StoryWhen Hagar is dying of thirst beside her dying son, the Torah does not say that G-d created a well or sent an angel with water. It says something far more startling: vayifkach Elokim et eineha — "G-d opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water." The water was already there. The salvation was already within reach. She was weeping over the absence of something that was fully present — she simply could not see it. Building on the Chiddushei HaRim (quoted by the Sfas Emes) — that everything a person needs already stands before him, if only he would open his eyes to see it — this class explores the quiet miracle that is harder than any splitting of the sea: not G-d changing our reality, but G-d changing the way we see the reality we already have. From Helen Keller's awakening at a water pump, to Otto Frank discovering the inner world of a daughter he thought he knew, we confront how even profound love can fail to truly see the human being standing in front of us. The class then turns inward through one of the strangest stories in the Talmud (Taanis 20b): Rabbi Elazar, flush with Torah and pride, insults an "exceedingly ugly" man — who, the Tosafos tell us, may have been Elijah himself, and who, on a deeper level, may have been Rabbi Elazar's own soul confronting his own ego. "Go tell the Craftsman who made me how ugly is the vessel He fashioned." We learn that the soul has no shame — only the ego does; that to call ourselves ugly or worthless is to speak against the One who created us; and that real growth comes not from self-contempt but from self-respect, from seeing ourselves as we were before the trauma and before the shame. We meet people only as deeply as we meet ourselves. The same open eyes that let Hagar see the well let us finally see our spouse, our parents, our children — and ourselves. The well is already there. Our work is to open our eyes. This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Tuesday, Parshas Vayeira, 16 Cheshvan, 5787, October 27, 2026.View Source Sheets: https://portal.theyeshiva.net/api/source-sheets/10015

Why Does G-d Allow Evil? Why Are Prayers Unanswered? And What If Judaism Feels Boring?

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