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Rabbi YY Jacobson discusses themes of chosenness and resilience at Panama Yarchei Kallah 2025.
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be able to see the growth of this and of the community coming together with such aim is really thrilling and inspiring and a privilege and a gift for me personally to be able to be here with you during these special days. leading up to a new amazing, incredible year with God's grace and to be able to feel once again the warmth and the hospitality and the friendship and the brotherhood that this community is known for the world over is really a great gift and very very inspiring and empowering. So, thank you for the invitation. Thank you for the privilege and thank you for this and may God grace us all. May you have your most amazing year yet for you and your loved ones materially, spiritually with the most revealed abundant blessings in all of that your heart desires and a year of true victory and a year of true redemption. Amen. >> So I was once in Miami. I was at a lecture and I went out and I was late. I had to get to the airport. It was before Yum Kipper. I needed to get back home and my taxi didn't come and I ordered another one and it also didn't come. A few cars were not coming and it was very very late. And then I saw something. I saw
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