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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.

[Music] i [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] man [Music] [Applause] hey me [Music] [Music] my [Music] i [Music] am [Music] [Music] to you and your families better claudius role they tell a story that in the city of poison in poland was a city of rebecca it was a baltichaya it was a jew he blew shayfu for many years this was his kazoke this was his thing and then somehow the raw fell that he got caught up a little bit too much and what they called then the haskala the enlightenment modernity so he demoted him from blowing the shafter kiyashay from rosh hashanah instead he gave him another job he had to give him something his job was to blow chauffeur by the end of naila this jew was progressive and he had connections ran to the marshal to the governor and if amassed the rabbi he informed on the rabbi he said just because i'm more progressive and i'm more open-minded and i'm more liberal and i'm more in touch with the times he threw me out of a position i held for so many years and he got rid of me it's not fair so the governor called in there of poison for an interview and he said i hear that this is what you did he says on the contrary not i demoted him i promoted him sir he says your honor what is the holiest day in the jewish calendar even this gentile knew he said jim kippur so he said he used to have a job on rosh hashanah i promoted him to him kipper now he has a job on him kipper he used to blow chopper [Music] the woman says oh i'm so sorry i apologize i heard that you threw him out he says no i elevated him so he calls back

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