Do We Have Free Choice? Part 2 - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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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] good morning everybody they tell a story an anecdote about I may have even shaded at one of the sheer I mean I don't recall there was a a rabbi a very innocent man who would sit up nights and learned and one night he was sitting and learning three o'clock in the morning and as you know in every Jewish shtetl in every Jewish City there was what they called us not ganas the local thief everybody has to make a living some way you got to put bread on the table support your wife and children and his occupation was he's the gun if he would steal he would do it with decency with sensitivity he wouldn't take more than he needs for the week's wage he would go in take what he needs support his wife and children and move on till next week and so one night he decided that this is the week he's going to go to the ROVs house and take what he needs from the rabbi's house how do you get into the house a boorish em the homes at gemonese you crawl in through the chimney you slide down the chimney you land wherever the chimney opens up in the home you do you work and you go on little did he know that they loved who was sitting up and learning Gomorrah and the chimneys

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