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Kobe Bryant’s Passion for Basketball - Misplaced Humility Can Destroy It All

10K views · Jan 31, 2020

Rabbi YY Jacobson

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the yeshiva dotnet thank you very much of a Castleman crew solder are abundant in Russia Shiva's spear my honkin rabbi his rabbits ins friends brothers and sisters the entire community ladies and gentlemen Brooke Lemar boyo thank you for the invitation thank you for the privilege Thank You rabbi rag chick for extending the invitation it's amazing how you put this together within a few days and I'm really thrilled to be here now I thought when I was flying to Los Angeles today that my topic is huge smart option pay but as I landed and I heard the news about Kobe Bryant I come to offer condolences from the entire East Coast Jewish community to all my brethren because I see that in California today there was no other topic being spoken about besides the tragedy the helicopter tragedy which claimed the life of Kobe Bryant his 13 year old daughter and the other seven victims and it was obviously a basketball star of the west coast of California and like everything the baal shem tov says everything you hear when you see is a lesson and perhaps a lesson from this person is number one you have to learn how to be a player and not a spectator to be involved and not just a fan and number two another great quality of Kobe Bryant he was a unifier a grand unifier I have an older brother some of you know him rabbi shimon Jacobsen and he shared with me once that unsuppressed era every year at Suncoast area those of you who remember the geography of 770's - Parkway on Simcoe Styron note there was a phenomenon called the cast the cast was cables that

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