The Courage to Be Yourself: The Power of Inner Truth - Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Today we're going to go back to familiar stories. But really all the familiar stories are also unfamiliar stories because the stories have within themselves so many untold layers and dep of depth and dimensions that you can always go back to those stories and revisit. The Tanak says the Ni says about the meaning its size is longer than the planet earth and its breath is larger than the sea than the ocean which is referring to the fact that just like the water you know you look at the water and you know there's so much I don't know if you know but even today in 2026 there's still probably one or two million species of fish that we don't know about. We haven't gotten to them yet. And that's after thousands of years of research. So there's so many layers of untold depth that you could excavate and search and always see more because really you're talking about something that's infinite. So when you have an infinite reality, so how much did you get of it? As much as you got, you can always start over again because it's infinite. Now the distance between one to infinity is similar to the distance between 1 billion and infinity. So having1 billion dollars I mean it's nice to have a billion dollars. I'm not knocking anybody having a billion dollars. You'll do good things with it. But still the distance to infinity is equal like the distance of one to infinity or zero to infinity. And the same is true with the

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