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Time to Transcend Pettiness

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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well uh um and and i feel like i know him of course i don't because like you and i like i watch him and i listen to him so just the fact that he's he's here today is is so special because he's he's huge right he he he really understands you know the jewish soul and how to reconnect reconnect to it and i'm i'm so happy that you know people now will have a chance in a few minutes to meet with him because he he really affected my own learning um it gives me a great pleasure to welcome tonight one of the world's premier jewish scholars in torah and jewish mysticism rabbi yasser jacobson rabbi jacobson is one of the most sought after speakers in the jewish world lecturing to audiences and serving as teacher and mentor to thousands across the globe he is considered to be one of the most successful passionate and mesmerizing communicators of judaism culling his ideas from the entire spectrum of jewish thought and making them relevant to contemporary audiences addressed by rabbi jacobson tonight thank you and welcome rabbi jacobson thank you for your very kind introductory remarks welcome to all of my dear brothers friends sisters many of you that i recognize here on zoom and all of us are connected and brothers and sisters and thank you for all those who brought us all together on this very special evening i have to say it's evening for you it's very early morning for me but uh torah transcends time and space because it connects us to something of eternity and therefore despite the differences in space and time we connect not only through the technology of zoom which we say gum zoom let's but we also connect in an

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  2. 6:49he would often tell stories of his experiences in siberia because who did stalin sent to
  3. 13:11and we continue playing and remendel would look at the yeshiva students after he would finish
  4. 19:32very very deep because your soul is a piece of infinity you are a derivative of
  5. 25:59that think about sometimes your own family members who make mistakes and they may hurt you
  6. 32:13where there's an act of criminal then forgiveness is actually forbidden because then i am an
  7. 38:05look how mistaken i was or look what a narrow perspective i was operating from or
  8. 44:20french naturalist his name was henry farber with caterpillars it's a brilliant experiment caterpillars follow each
  9. 50:39was all training for this moment if at this moment i'm not going to rise to
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