Rabbi YY Jacobson - Gimmel Tammuz Farbengen With the Jewish Community of Argentina

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I'm going to share with you a story that I observed with my own eyes. I did not hear it from somebody else. I've seen it myself. However, I did not know the meaning of the story until decades later. The year was 1989. It was Simra. I was a yeshiva student at the time living in the Brooklyn in the Crown Height section of Brooklyn. I grew up in the environment of the labba of blessed memory whose 26th yard site the Jewish world is commemorating this evening or tenon that holiday the end of sukat 1989 I was a young boy at the time how old was I uh I think 16 years old, probably 16 years old. 16 or 17 years old. And uh I was there in 770. The Reb was dancing the hakus, the joy was extraordinary, the inspiration, the enthusiasm. Generally dancing hakus with theb oner and simra was an unforgettable experience. I still can feel the energy and the electricity. In fact it was astounding then it remains astounding now. Reb was then in his high8s. He danced and danced and danced. Teenagers couldn't keep along could couldn't uh maintain that momentum, that energy, that ecstasy. In the middle of the dancing, a Jew walked in and I saw it cuz it was very close to the place where I was. His name was Rabbi Yakov Yehudah. They used to call him JJ. JJ He Rabbi JJ He was a very wellknown Jewish figure and personality in New York. A rabbi, a teacher. He had a radio show, very well-known activist, social activist, head of an organization called NCFJ, the National

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1. 0:00I'm going to share with you a story that I observed with my own eyes. I…
2. 6:16and Rabbi wasn't like a family relative. He was aid. He was a kabat. He was…
3. 12:31telling me. Walking from East Flatbush to 770 on the night of Sim Torah. He walks…
4. 18:47pursue Hashem faster and with more ferociousness and might than a lioness pursues her prey. But…
5. 25:02that hashem tells us to do he also does himself. So made these two institutions. It…
6. 31:09mindstaggering. before the second world war I mean under Zarist Russia and then the first world…
7. 37:35If he doesn't sing, I'm going to have to sing. [laughter] I'll sing.…
8. 44:35shut off one faucet, you have to shut off all the faucets. And sometimes all emotions…
9. 50:46of the letter. I got it years later. The Reb then spoke about it that year…
10. 57:02for my light, for my inner diamonds. But the challenge here is that this person who…

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