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What I Learned From the Rebbe on How to Impact People: Meaningful People Interview With Rabbi YY

6.4K views · Jun 27, 2025

Rabbi YY Jacobson

What I Learned From the Rebbe on How to Impact People: Meaningful People Interview With Rabbi YY

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Today's Gimmel Thomas. People are watching this probably in Gimmel Thomas. Maybe they're waiting in the line with a few hours trying to get there. Uh what is on the line? I'd probably say to hell. Yeah. Or listening to a podcast. Depends how old they are, you know. Um what what does the day mean to you? What does it bring up for you? For me, it's a day of gratitude and empowerment. Gratitude for the gift of our generation that God has given our generation with the soul of the labba. I once heard from the late Rabbi Jonathan Saxs, chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and he said that after the devastating concealment of Hashem's face in Awitz, Hashem gave the Jewish people a few smiles. He said and one of his smiles was the leadership and the presence of the Labava. So there's a lot of gratitude for the gift of the Reb's wisdom, love, direction, perspective. Yeah. Empowerment I would say is equally important and that is I have been privileged to have been empowered by the reba throughout my most formative years to be able to be an ambassador of light and love and hope and healing and redemptive consciousness. And I think on such a day, you know, I reflect mostly on how myself as an individual and I think

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  4. 7:44each was many. So it would begin a sika maybe for a half an hour or…
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