How Royalty Thinks

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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.

plate. The truth is, if getting to know him a little bit, I don't know how he does it. The The Rav knows no night. The Khabad Rav, Rabbi YY Jacobson. Thank you so much, my dear friend Rabbi Katz. As I walked in here this evening, Rabbi Katz came over to me and he said, "Some people are worried for you." I said, "Why?" And he said, "Cuz last time, 2 years ago, you couldn't get into the house. You couldn't get into the Mandela house. And tonight, most of the crowd is watching online. And in quantity, there's relatively a smaller crowd here. So, people are afraid, you know, maybe you're going to be upset." I looked at him and I said three words, "Just one life." The truth is, I was here last year, too, at Aussie's and Rachel's home, and I was speaking mamas to myself. So, just realize what an upgrade this is this year. I was looking at a camera. Aussie did me a favor and he sat down for a few minutes. He even brought his dog to fill up the room a little bit. Rachel sat down for a few minutes. Um So, this is an extraordinary upgrade by 9,000%. There was a Jew I knew. He was one of the great rabbonim of Melbourne. His name was Reb Chaim Hakayan Gutnick. He was a Telzer You remember my Telzer Yeshiva bocher? Came from England after the war, moved to Australia. And was a prominent rabbi there for many years until his passing. Reb Gutnick watched the rebuilding of the Australian Jewish community post the Holocaust. Coupled with the renaissance of Jewish communities, of course, in Israel and the world over. And he once shared the following story.

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1. 0:32plate. The truth is, if getting to know him a little bit, I don't know how…
2. 6:12You disappear. You disappear. The host disappears. One woman showed up to you know it's supposed…
3. 12:33dynamic, the entire future of this family and who knows of the Jewish people and who…
4. 18:47row. The rabbi gets up at the grave to officiate. And the teenager looks at the…
5. 24:53the Jewish people bedecked in white. He saw the ancient glorious collective soul of Knesset Yisrael.…
6. 31:08I ask one thing of God. This is what I beg, I plead with for. I…
7. 37:25insanity. Now, I ask you a question. When you're a fugitive, trauma after trauma after trauma…
8. 43:38and another little soup. And he looked at my father. He says, "This is what the…
9. 49:46You have to be able to walk out of and know that behind and beneath everything…
10. 55:59about the situation. And the Rebbe tells him in Yiddish, "Mefakoyef nisht a bruder." You don't…

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