Life and Legacy of Rabbi JJ Hecht: New Book, order now Rabbijjhecht.com

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Aaron L Raskin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

so tonight's topic is Rabbi Jacob J Hecht his life his legacy and I want to begin with a question and that is how many people here can say that when you were six years old you knew what you wanted to be when you grew up well I did when I was six years old I had the great pleasure of going to my grandfather's synagogue very often and shot this morning when he would speak and I would see his eyes bulging out of his sockets I said wow I want to be like him he was a Dynamo everything he did was with his all with his nishamma with his soul not only his speeches or his radio shows but campomuna for girls release time program to help families husband and wives Stay Together and all of these powerful events that he did throughout his life as you will hear tonight from the speaker finally 32 years after his passing the book was produced 32 in Hebrew are the letters lamid days which means Lev heart it was a book produced with hearts and no doubt whatever my grandfather did was truly with love with his heart without further Ado I would like to call upon Rabbi my dear uncle the oldest son of Rabbi Jacob to address us this evening thank you [Music] I actually remember when Aaron Lee my nephew as a little boy wanted to uh was was learning how to be like his grandfather [Music]

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