Bill Clinton's Unforgettable Encounter With A Rabbi - 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.

Thank you. You know, uh, a woman once asked me and she said, "Rabbi Jacobson, could you find me a perfect man, a perfect husband?" So I I said, "I could try, but give me the definition." You know, perfect is a very relative term. What's the definition of that perfect man you're looking for? And she said, 'In my book, the perfect man is someone who wakes up 5:00 in the morning. He makes his own 5:00 in the morning. He makes his own bed. He makes breakfast for himself. Yeah, he is scheduled, principled, disciplined. He only surfs the web seven minutes a day. He only takes two calls a day. He does his own laundry. He doesn't see his wife as a slave. He makes his own food. He exercises and reads daily. Most He exercises and reads daily. Most importantly, you always know where he is. You're never secondguing where he is. He's stable, consistent, he's in the same place, and finally he goes to bed 9:00 at night. She says, "Rabbi, that's my definition of a perfect man. Where can I find such a guy? And I said in prison. You know, which is actually true. There was an American family. They were very proud of their lineage. They traced their lineage back to someone who came here on the Mayflower and they decided to write a book about the family history so that the continuing generations would know about their great ancestry. But in the middle

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