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[music] Jordi Cordish attended the University of Illinois. Besides being the scholar [music] at the university, he was also the captain of his lacrosse team. One evening, while Jordy was shopping at the kiosk on campus, there was a holdup. Bullets began to fly and a bullet lodged itself in his spine, causing him become a quadriplegic for the rest of his life. Now confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from the neck down, Jordy began [music] to think and he deeply thought about his Jewish roots. And slowly but surely with Jewish roots. And slowly but surely with the help of the rabbi on campus, he became a full-fledged Baluva. After a while, Jordi [music] now Aram Yehuda made aliyah Israel lived in the neighborhood of Bagan and became [music] close to the great pisk of Arbad. One day Rabbi Yehuda had a shila to ask of the place of God and he with his assistant that he had with him all day and all night they made their way to the yeshiva to pose the shila thought for a few moments and he [music]
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- 2:42have to recognize that we are limitless people we're not ishmal [music] and when we set…
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