Let's Change the World Together - Address to South African Jewish Community

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

thank you so so much my lips kur thank you so much to the entire South African Jewish community and all of you who are joining us from South Africa and those of you who are joining South Africa this evening or this afternoon or this morning wherever you are I want to welcome each and every single one of you it's my honor to be here with you and I'm thrilled so much that I have the privilege and opportunity to be addressing you at this really special time the title of this lecture and presentation was it's very challenging times but like every great challenge there's also tremendous and profound opportunity so welcome I want to especially thank the organizers and really I'm so thrilled to be here with each and every one of you welcome to South Africa we have I see hundreds or thousands actually of people joining us here virtually live from South Africa and literally around the globe what a special moment of unity the organizer of this event has been asking me for a while to come to South Africa for a big lecture tour but because of other schedule link I simply couldn't I I simply didn't have the time to do it and I spoke to him on the phone today and I said you know this is a little easier than a flight so there are silver linings and every crisis there are silver linings and this is easier than a flight that's also cheaper than a ticket

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1. 0:00thank you so so much my lips kur thank you so much to the entire South…
2. 6:27from their homes interested so I'm also gonna begin with a cute anecdote about a Jew…
3. 12:51you go if I cannot emerge from you a transformed human being a transformed nation a…
4. 19:29of me and with clothes on me and with some oxygen to breathe and some food…
5. 25:51the world has changed there's one question have I changed have you changed have we changed…
6. 32:12multi-millionaire a president the Prime Minister a leader from the greatest scholars to the greatest presence…
7. 38:40he was quarantined in wilderness he was quarantined in desolate places but he dreamt I got…
8. 45:22it means becoming the person that reflects the state of the world when machine comes well…
9. 51:43the coronavirus brought out our shared humanity and may this shared humanity spill over to good…
10. 58:07invite me for one of them and I'm gonna try to come over for a Sunday…

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