The Greatest Identity Theft - Rabbi Aryeh Kerzner

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

[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 Kairens, pickpocketed him. And this fellow Kairens stole his wallet and in that 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

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1. 0:00[Music] Just recently in the news, there was a story about one of the most devastating…
2. 0:30ID. He stole his social security number and he posed as Woods to lead an extremely…
3. 1:01got in trouble and in fact he sat in jail for more than a year based…
4. 1:33when we do a virus, we make mistakes, we make errors. The Zahora commits identity theft.…
5. 2:04your DNA, it becomes part of your persona. You're a Ben Tyra, the son of the…
6. 2:34persona. Only then are we truly able to really grow in our hashem and rise up…

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