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I'm your host, David Bischofkin and this month we're exploring Teshuvra.

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There is a fascinating article that was shown to me by

Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, who's the president of Yeshiva University. He wrote an article about this,

I think a while back in Waius like Torah to go. It was an eye-opening article. It is called

From Ghosts to Ancestors, the Psychoanalytic Vision of Hans Lowell. I've never heard of

Hans Lowell before. The article is written by somebody named Stephen Mitchell. And it is a fascinating

article by the way that we relate to our own past. Each one of us has a past. We have parents,

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