Rabbi YY Jacobson With Teenagers #2: Ask Tough Questions; Get Real Answer

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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.

Good evening my dear dear teenagers from all over the world. Welcome, welcome. I am thrilled to be here with you this evening during our second program. I do have to tell you that a few hundred questions came in. I'm not exaggerating. Approximately four or 500 questions came in and you can text your questions 8457774747. I just want to announce that this program is going to continue. Lots of teens have emailed us and texted us that you really wanted to continue. So we're going to continue God willingly. Need we'll have one next Thursday as well, 9:30 p.m. And we also have our classes with children for your younger siblings. We'll have Sunday at 2 in Yiddish for children and then a week from Sunday 4:00 p.m. in English for children all over the world. But for teens, we have it Thursday and once again next and it was very meaningful for me because it really is such a powerful message. So I was in Detroit some time ago for a Shabbaton partners in Torah and we were having Shabas lunch and I was sitting near a dear friend from Detroit and a great Jew, a pillar of the community by the name of Gary Turgo and he shared with me a little story that happened. He was sitting with the prime minister of Britain. Prime Minister of Britain was Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher was known as the iron lady because she was a very tough and strong person and she was the prime minister of England for many years. And he was talking to her and he asked her, "What was the most awkward or difficult moment for you during the years when you were prime minister of Great Britain?" And without skipping a heart's beat, she says, "Gary, I'll tell you. I remember it like today. The custom in England is

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