Rabbi Jacobson's Life Story, Mission, Work, and Perspective on Our Times

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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.

of such a great man as our guest that we have tonight and never have i had the privilege or opportunity to interview someone on this caliber let's welcome the amazing rabbi y yy jacobson rabbi why why how are you wonderful thank you and i'm really pleased and privileged to be here with you thank you for your passion and enthusiasm now you give dozens of shirum weekly to thousands of people and few people if anyone gives as many shiorim on antoine and stam inspiration anywhere near the amount that you give now we know it didn't start all of a sudden in 2020 there's a rabbi yui uh we have a picture actually going back to when you were 15 years old i'm assuming in the 1980s i know i forgot what they called it but you used to sit and listen to the shirm of the rebel and the rabbi the rebel and you had to memorize them let's let's go back let's hear when did rabbi y and how did rabbi y y become rabbi while we're just going to put up that picture for you one second over here and then you're going to tell us what's happening and now you can tell us what's happening so my parents were born in the communist soviet union they suffered terribly there as jews religious jews my grandfather was arrested tortured they made it out from there because they hashem on false passports they ultimately came to the united states of america and they settled ultimately in brooklyn i was born in 1972 i grew up at the feet of the lava churaba

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1. 0:31of such a great man as our guest that we have tonight and never have i…
2. 6:13i'm saying it was deep deep you could say that again with the laboratory i mean…
3. 12:23historical privilege to be part of it well and and how much of that do you…
4. 18:34his life he was a journalist his whole life he was an interesting person he worked…
5. 24:48to um get to everybody and and it it's even more than that you managed to…
6. 31:32so there's a few that's how you know that it's light enough to be able to…
7. 37:18they're not part of an ego game of notzramas if you have export explored every alternative…
8. 43:29the fight for the good and the fight for the just for god is with you…
9. 49:37seeds of your shamayim seeds of ava sasha ava ava sister seeds of shahaman by lama…
10. 55:46to come give the sermons at their churches on sunday i declined gracefully but it was…

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