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The Queen, Mommy! | Rabbi YY Jacobson
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Rabbi YY Jacobson relates a story of the Queen of England and her mother to how we should view ourselves in fighting the Yetzer Hara. Want to get these videos on WhatsApp? Click here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/JQMXINfWghY0Zroy4zLOWL #vayimaen #shmiraseinayim #selfworth
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It's one of my favorite stories.
Queen Elizabeth the second,
who died in September 2022,
was once going on an outing
with her mother, the queen mother.
The Queen Mother
happened to be having a hard day.
You know, she was in a bad mood.
She was grouchy.
And at some point during their outing,
she snapped at her daughter
and she turns to her and says,
Who do you think you are?
And her daughter responds,
Who do I think I am?
The queen, Mommy. The queen.
I love this story, because I think
a version of this story
happens to each of us.
There is a voice in my head
or in my nervous system,
or a voice that
comes from outside of me
and it tells me,
Who do you think you are?
It makes me feel like a piece of garbage.
It makes me hate myself, loathe myself
and then I'm just
looking to numb my pain,
to escape my anxiety.
And it’s at such moments
where I have to be able
to look at that voice
and say,
Who do I think I am?
The queen, Mommy. The queen.
As the Mishna says,
Every Jew is a prince or a princess.
The Zohar says,
ישראל איתקרו מלכים
You're not just a son
of the king or the queen,
you are completely one with the king.
To be able to identify
the infinite goodness and value
in myself, in yourself.
And when I can really,
really pay tribute to that
and recognize that
and hold on to that truth,
automatically my thoughts,
my words, and my actions
want to reflect
that innate, intrinsic truth.