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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.

[Music] the story of the rebbe's life parallels the story of judaism in the 20th century he was born in zarist russia at the turn of the century a descendant of the first rebels of chabad he survived the murderous pogroms that swept through zarus russia in the early 1900s as the communist revolution began to take root and power was seized by the bolsheviks he watched his parents walk the halls of power fighting for the rights of jews and judaism as a teenager during world war one his home was a center of relief efforts for the tens of thousands of jewish refugees who flooded their city in his twenties he met and studied with the torah giants of his times he married the daughter of the sixth lubavitcher rebbe in a wedding attended by jewish leaders from far and near living in berlin during hitler's rise to power he witnessed firsthand a modern society turning against the jews within it he left paris only days ahead of the nazi advance into the city then crossed the atlantic on one of the last civilian vessels to leave warlock europe [Music] when he arrived his father-in-law placed him at the helm of lubavitch's newly founded educational social and publishing departments as the center of world jewelry shifted to the united states he became the leader of the lubavitch hasidic movement at the time his strategy was considered risky even dangerous he taught his followers in addition to focusing inward on improving themselves to bring judaism outward pioneering the concept of modern jewish outreach as hundreds of thousands of jewish pioneers moved to the holy land he engaged and corresponded with their leaders during peace and conflict he embraced the people and the land of israel

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1. 0:00[Music] the story of the rebbe's life parallels the story of judaism in the 20th century…
2. 6:15health happiness and prosperity continued growth in your personal lives and in your communal lives may…
3. 12:44to bear on all of those various aspects of life and in doing so i think…
4. 26:56living in ghana comes with many difficulties both physical and spiritual wake up in the morning…
5. 33:22thought okay what else can i do i will have to do it all by myself…
6. 39:36of those jews now thousands of jews are watching that special program for gimel tammuz all…
7. 45:49that which hitler wanted to destroy it is the greatest happiness that a person can have…

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