The Jacobson Brothers Discuss It All: Rabbi Simon & Rabbi YY Jacobson

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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.

the yeshiva dotnet [Music] good morning Simon Jacobsen my dear and beloved brother yet why why Jacobson it's official Jacobson I'm the oldest in the family he's the youngest and we have the family he's the youngest and we have three siblings sandwiched in between boy girl boy their own boy and it's a pleasure to be here together we spoke a briefly a little about the structure and format here and we'll get straight to it so no need for long introductions you've already heard us independently and now we'll be here together so we'd like to do to really maximize the time in the fullest way instead of talking about one thing at length rather talk about many things and as much as possible and also things and as much as possible and also engage with you the audience so we're gonna do is we're gonna begin with a few questions that we'll ask each other and try to stick to not try the absolutely stick to short answers and short doesn't mean 45 minutes which is short by the way in relatively speaking but rather maybe two minutes and and then be happy to take questions from all of you and hopefully this will be a very meaningful hopefully this will be a very meaningful and reaching session for all of us I'll start with a question to my esteemed brother if if you were given the opportunity to change one thing in the system of all Jewish schools and education from grade one from free one day what would it be you stumped me it's an excellent question one thing would be a complete radical shift on the focus that instead of focusing on data knowledge and information talk about Jewish information to focus on soul on the Shama why are we here God sent us for a purpose that your entire life whatever

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