The Six Building Blocks of Jewish Identity -- Dallas Lecture

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the yeshiva dotnet and now without further ado to tonight's esteemed guest and speaker rabbi YY Jacobsen rabbi Jacobsen was the first rabbi invited by the Pentagon to deliver the religious keynote to the US military chief of chaplains and the NSA at the conference he was hailed as the Jewish Billy Graham one of America's premier Jewish scholars in Torah and hash kapha Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak YY Jacobsen is one of the most sought off sada sought-after speakers in the Jewish world he lectures to Jewish and non-jewish audiences and six continents and every state in the nation and serves as a teacher and mentor to tens of thousands of people globally a warm and motivational speaker rabbi Jacobsen has lectured on Hasidic teachings to Jewish and non-jewish audiences and published scores of articles on Jewish thought please give a warm welcome to rabbi Jacobsen [Applause] thank you so much for your kind and gracious introduction as I reflect on this evening I recall that anecdote about professor Albert Einstein that Viennese Jew who by the way his theory on black holes a hundred years ago has just been vindicated as they finally captured the first photograph of a black hole only 55 million light years away with the width of 25 billion miles and it looks like a bagel Einstein who's considered the greatest scientist of the 20th century was also a little absent-minded and once he was travelling on a train in Europe you know the trains in Europe the conductor would go from cabin to cabin ask everybody to give their ticket punched a hole in the ticket and he approaches Professor Albert Einstein dr. Einstein your ticket please he searches right pocket the left pocket his pants his jacket his hat under his chairs briefcase the ticket is gone the whole train is looking and the

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