From a Posture of Exile to Redemption | "An Evening with the Rebbe," Chabad of California

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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.

or at least a very young man. I can't remember which year exactly but it was in the 80s in the 1980s. It was the night of some and I had a place near my uh father of blessed memory in the front of the shul in the front of 770 Eastern Parkway very close to where the labava stood prayed danced, celebrated some. The place was packed. A room that probably legally should fit no more than 2500, maybe 3,000 people was filled to capacity and beyond capacity. And to me, it looked like there were 7, 8, 9,000 people hanging from the beams and every nook and cranny had somebody. The fact that everybody survived and are here, some of us here to tell the tale was a miracle in and of itself. As you know, there are seven hkafas and I can't remember which one, but one of them they honored the Reb's legendary ambassador to the west coast of the United States of America, Rabbi Schlunan with that hakafa. I think they gave him what's known as Msiahra, which is a very large Torah that was began began in the 1940s by the previous labb. He said he wants to write a Torah to greet Msiach. The Rebba completed the Torah in 1970 and they would take it out once in a while, usually once a month. Shabas was a very big Torah. It's still used with a crown, a beautiful crown, but it's a heavy Torah. And Rabbi Kunan [clears throat] today he's even younger than he was then. Then he was also young. Today he told me yesterday he's becoming younger and younger. We went from the aresh from the front the ark to the beimma which was towards the back of the shul. They called it a then and of course you would encircle it and then dance.

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1. 0:33or at least a very young man. I can't remember which year exactly but it was…
2. 6:09I will not have the audacity to try to interpret what the rebba meant and why…
3. 12:21narrow entrance only one person could walk at a time. So now the classical Jewish question…
4. 18:36with a joke, with a story. His Fabangans could go for two hours, but also for…
5. 24:53Hopefully, we'll soon all be there. 6.6 million. That's not a small number. In 1946 47,…
6. 31:08sing? So, so ask the mag. What's a redundancy? He just said, "Open your heart, says…
7. 37:28when I internally I know that it's a gift to be a channel and if somebody…
8. 43:45anymore? You know what happens when parents actually don't have to live vicariously through the nas…
9. 49:58Talmud. And you could see that it's alluding to such transcendent and powerful truths which I…
10. 56:11Every teenager that I know in the world wants to let go of their ego. Everybody…

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