Stolen Identity | Rabbi Aryeh Kerzner

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[Music] Just recently in the news, there was a story about one of the most devastating and fascinating cases of identity theft in history. There was a fellow named William Donald Woods who was just going about his daily life in 1988 working at a hot dog stand and there was another guy a coworker guy named Matthew David Ka pickpocketed him and this fellow Ka stole his wallet and in that stole his identity he stole his ID he stole his identity he stole his ID he stole his social security number and he posed as woods to lead an extremely successful life. In fact he got married based on this fraud. He had children based on this new persona and he landed a very highpaying six figure salary as an IT at one of the most prominent hospitals in America based on this persona. He succeeded for decades with this fraud to the extent that because Woods wasn't Matslak, every time Woods tried to reclaim his identity, he got in trouble.

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1. 0:00[Music] Just recently in the news, there was a story about one of the most devastating…
2. 0:32identity he stole his ID he stole his social security number and he posed as woods…
3. 1:02reclaim his identity, he got in trouble. And in fact, he sat in jail for more…
4. 1:34of woods. You see, when we do a veras, we make mistakes. We make errors. The…
5. 2:04where it becomes ingrained in your DNA it becomes part of your persona you're a benyra…
6. 2:34and the a didn't embed itself in our persona. Only then are we truly able to…

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