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Yossi Ben Shushan

Yossi Ben Shushan

Rabbi and Certified Alcohol & Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) in Cleveland; mashgiach ruchani at Yeshiva High School of Cleveland; specializes in parenting, teen addiction, and crisis intervention.

Jun 2, 2026

20:14
And h- and how do you get people to do it, though? 'Cause it's easy for us to say you should be vulnerable, but there are barriers.
20:18
Yes, I, I, I go about it two ways.
20:20
I- it's, it depends on, a lot of it depends on the age, and a lot of it depends on the...
20:25
Number one is meaning, right? It's a big Viktor Frankl, uh, concept.
20:29
If you give a man meaning behind doing anything, he'll do it, and they find, I f- I found this among men all over, that if they thought they were doing something for their kids, right? Let's say they're afraid of heights, but their kid is on a balcony or something.
20:43
They'll run out onto that balcony in two seconds to get their kid off of the bal- And all of a sudden, no one's afraid of heights anymore.
20:48
You know, they're afraid of, uh, snakes, but, you know, there's a snake next to their kid or whatever.

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40:52
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