Rabbi YY Jacobson presented the keynote lecture at the dinner of Agudas Achim synagogue in Philadelphia, on Thursday 4 Shevat, 5783, January 26, 2023

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“Your Life Is G-d’s Autograph”

Lecture to Philadelphia Russian Community

The Trauma and Miracle of Russian Jewry

In honor of the 76th Yartzeit of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1878-1944), Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine,&nbsp;father of The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi YY presented this lecture about his life and times, to the Jewish community of Montana.

The event, headed by Rabbi Chaim Bruk, Chabad of Bozeman, took place on Monday, 20 Av, 5780, August 10, 2020.&nbsp;

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During the Darkest Days of Communism, Unshakeable Faith & Compassion

Zoom Lecture to Montana Jewish Community

The Heart of Ukraine: Life & Times of Reb Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1878-1944)

This women&#39;s class was presented on Tuesday Parshas Reah, 21&nbsp;Av, 5780, August 11, 2020, streaming live from Rabbi YY Jacobson&#39;s home in Monsey, NY

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Why Are Jews Captivated by Hollow Movements & Ideologies?

Women's Re'eh Class

Revolutzye!!! 

Rabbi YY Jacobson addressed via zoom the children of Beer Yeshayahu, a school in Monsey, NY, named for the great Chassidic Tzaddik Rabbi Yeshaya Steiner of Kerestir, Hungry, in honor of his 95th yartzeit on 3 Iyar, 5780, April 27, 2020.

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The Story of Reb Shayele and the Mice

Zoom Chat With Children About Reb Shayele Kerestirer

What Reb Shayele Can Teach All of Us About Judaism

Three men, a Frenchman, an Italian, and a Jew, were condemned to be executed. Their captors told them that they had the right to have a final meal before the execution. They asked the Frenchman what he wanted.

“Give me some good French wine and French bread,” he requested. So they gave it to him, he ate it, and then they executed him.

Next it was the Italian’s turn. Give me a big plate of pasta,” said the Italian. So they brought it to him, he ate it, and then they executed him.

Now it was the Jew’s turn. “I want a big bowl of strawberries, ” said the Jew.

“Strawberries!!! They aren’t even in season!”

“So, I’ll wait…

In MetLife

Yesterday, January 1, 2020, I attended a gathering of 90,000 fellow Jews, at MetLife Stadium, in New Jersey. They all united to celebrate the completion of a seven-year cycle of studying the 2,711 pages of the Talmud.&nbsp;

At the mass event I noticed Jews, men and women, of all ages. But my heart swelled with tears and pride as I noticed one Jew, close to 100, an Auschwitz survivor, who attended the celebration together with four generations of decedents. I noticed some other twenty Holocaust survivors dancing together in MetLife.

And I recalled a story recorded in the Talmud,<a href="javascript: void(0);" name="_ednref1" id="_edn1" onclick="ty.scrollTo('_ednref1')">[1]</a> the one about the execution of Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon.,

Rabbi Chanina was a sage of the Mishna who lived in Sachnin in the Galilee during the second century CE, during the reign of Adrian who wished to decimate Judaism. In open defiance of the Roman edict, Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon publicly taught Torah. The Romans caught him and sentenced him to be burned, his wife to be killed, and his daughter to be subjected to the life of a prostitute.

The Talmud related how he was executed. The venerable sage was wrapped in a Torah scroll—perhaps the very scroll that he had held in open violation of the Roman edict—and surrounded with bundles of vine branches. Lighting the pyre was not enough for the Romans; the sage's demise was to be slow and painful: Clumps of wool were brought, soaked in water and placed over the heart of Rabbi Chanina. His daughter—herself sentenced by the Romans to a life of disrepute—cried: "Father, must I see you thus?"

With tremendous courage, Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon calmed his daughter: "If I alone was being burned it would be difficult for me. Now that I am being burned and the Torah scroll is with me—He who will seek a reckoning for the insult to the Torah scroll will seek a reckoning for my insult."

As their teacher was nearing his end, the students sought to garner a final lesson: "Master, what do you see?" As the flames scorched his holy body, Rabbi Chanina shared a lasting image:

"The parchment is burning, but the letters are taking flight!"

Seeing their master's pain, the disciples urged: "You too—like the Torah whose physical shell is being destroyed—open your mouth and the fire will enter you, and your soul will ascend with the letters." But the sage refused. "It is better that He who gave the soul should take it back, rather than a person inflicts harm on himself."

The Roman executioner, seeing Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon's sacred majesty, turned to the sage: "My master, if I increase the flame and remove the clumps of wet wool from over your heart in order to end your suffering, will you bring me to the life of the world-to-come?"

"Yes."

"Swear to me."

The sage complied and the executioner immediately increased the fire and Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon's soul departed. Without waiting, the Roman executioner jumped into the flames and a Heavenly voice resounded: "Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon and the executioner are prepared for the world-to-come."

The Image

The sage is burning, together with the Torah scroll in which he is wrapped. And when his students ask him what he sees, he responds: "The parchment is burning, but the letters are taking flight!"

I will dare to ask: How absurd was the question of his students. What were they thinking? Here their Rebbe is burning alive, what types of question was this: “What do you see?” What is he supposed to be seeing during such savage suffering?<a href="javascript: void(0);" name="_ednref2" id="_edn2" onclick="ty.scrollTo('_ednref2')">[2]</a>

And what is the meaning of this response about the parchment burning and the holy letters soaring? What was he trying to convey to them?

What of the Future?

Perhaps, the students of the holy sage stood and watched the demise of both their Rebbe and their Torah, being destroyed together. At such a moment, they asked one question: Rebbe! What do you see? “Mah Atah Roeh?” This exact term is found in Jeremiah chapter one, where G-d asks the prophet “What do you see?” referring to a prophecy about the future, and a future of destruction.

The students were asking Rabbi Chaninah “What do you see” to constitute our future? With you—the preeminent sage of Israel—and the Torah going up in flames, what does the future hold for our people and faith? Where are we to invest our “stocks?” In the portfolio of Torah, seemingly meeting its doom, or in the portfolio of Rome seemingly on top of the world? Tell us, dear Rebbe, “what do you see?”

They, of course, remembered the first vision of G-d to Moses. How did Moses encounter the presence of G-d for the first time? In a burning bush. “And he saw that the bush is aflame but it is not being consumed.” The meaning of that vision, as the Midrash explains, is that the Jewish people will burn but they will never be consumed. But how will this happen? Wondered the students of Rabbi Chaninah, as they watched their master and the Torah being consumed by a raging blaze of hate! The burning bush was not being consumed, but the Sage and the Torah scroll were going up in the flames.

Rabbi Chaninah’s response remains one of the most powerful and moving messages that has defined and sustained our people: "I see the parchment is burning, but the letters are taking flight!"

The Torah consists of two parts: the parchment and the letters; the body and the soul; the physical matter and the ideas, the spirit, the message. The people too consist of two dimensions: the physical reality and the inner soul. The parchments of Torah, as well as the “parchments” of the Jewish people may be subjected to destruction and annihilation, but the letters of Torah—and the letters of the human spirit—are soaring. They never die. They endure, and they are transplanted into new places and new times.

After Auschwitz 

Seventy-five years ago, our parents and grandparents watched the parchments of 6,000,000 go up in flames. From 1933 till 1945 the Germans burnt 100 million Jewish books as well. They were determined to destroy every last fragment of Jewish parchment.

I am still amazed every day how that generation managed to rebuild life from ashes. How? Somehow, they gazed at the burnt parchment, and they said to themselves: The letters have soared! Their spiritual essence, their message, their values, dreams, loves, passions and traditions will continue to live in us.

As the flames engulfed his body, Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon saw the letters “porchot,” a Hebrew term that means not only soaring, but also blossoming, blooming, flowering and flourishing. While the parchment burned, the letters of our Tradition had already taken flight, like a seed box carrying the kernel that will grow into a new tree. This is the eternal charm of the letters of our Heritage: Out of the ashes they rise; and borne by the winds of history, they are supplanted in new fertile ground where they can once again take root and thrive.

Our generation took to heart Rabbi Chaninah’s words: The letters took flight… and they landed in the yeshivas, in the shuls, in the homes, and in the hearts and souls and communities of Jews in Jerusalem, New York, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Moscow, Brazil, London, Chicago, Toronto, and Johannesburg. Wherever there are Jews, those words continue to stir, to arouse, to inspire and to resonate.

Yesterday, I observed the miracle of the letters transplanted on the soil of the Unites States blossoming. Tens of thousands of Jews celebrated their completion of hundreds of millions letters of the sacred text of the Talmud—the letters, words and ideas which have sustained our people for four millennia and continue to give us courage, meaning and the dignity of purpose.

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Parchment Burning, Letters Soaring

Siyum Hashas

Dancing with 90,000 Jews

​100 years ago, a seamstress in Krakow, Sarah Schnirer, founded the first Jewish girls school Bais Yaakov, which soon turned into a movement, and revolutionized Jewish life. Rabbi YY Jacobson delivered the keynote address at the gala dinner of the flagship Bais Yaakov school in Boro Park, celebrating the 75th year since Bais Yaakov came to America.

This riveting lecture, presented on 14 Sivan, 5777, June 8, 2017, explores the unique voice that women bring to Torah and Judaism, and why our generation so deeply needs it.

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Our Generation Needs to Rediscover the Woman's Voice in Judaism

Keynote Lecture Bais Yaakov Dinner

100 Years Since Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Revolution

A Vain Battle

If there was ever a battle fought in vain, this was it. Or at least,&nbsp;so it seemed at the time.

The year is 1924. Vladimir Lenin, the father of the communist revolution, is dead;&nbsp;over 900,000&nbsp;people pass through the Hall of Columns during the four days and nights that Lenin's body lay exposed to the public.

Josef Stalin succeeds him as the new leader of the Soviet Union. During the following thirty years, he would murder 50 million of his own people. Jews and Judaism would be one of his primary targets. He sets up a special government organization, the Yevsektzye, to ensure that Russian Jewry in its millions embraces the new ethos of Communism, introducing a paradise constructed of bullets and gulags.&nbsp;

Stalin would rule with an iron fist till his death in March 1953, when four million people would gather in Red Square to bid farewell to the tyrant still revered and beloved by much of his nation and by many millions the world over.

At his home in Leningrad (today Petersburg), a 44-year-old rabbi, heir to some of the great Jewish thinkers and leaders of Russian Jewry, summons nine young disciples. He offers them an opportunity most would refuse: to take responsibility for the survival of Judaism in the communist Soviet Union; to ensure that Jewish life and faith would survive the hellish darkness of Stalin’s regime. He wants them to fight—in his words—“till the last drop of blood.”

They embrace the mission. He gives his hand to each of them as a sign that they are accepting an oath, one that would transform their destiny forever. "I will be the tenth, he says; together we have a minyan"...

 
An Underground Revolution

The nine men were dispatched throughout the country. With assistance from similar-minded colleagues, they created an impressive underground network of Jewish activity, which included Jewish schools, synagogues, mikvaot (ritual baths used by Jewish woman for spiritual feminine reinvigoration), adult Torah education, Yeshivot (academies for Torah learning for students), Jewish textbooks, providing rabbis for communities, teachers for schools, etc. Over the 1920s and 1930s, these individuals built six hundred (!) Jewish underground schools throughout the U.S.S.R (1). Many of them last for only a few weeks or months. When the KGB (the secret Russian police) discovered a school, the children were expelled, the teacher was arrested. A new one was opened elsewhere, usually in a cellar or on a roof.

One of the nine young men was sent to Georgia. There were dozens of mikvaot there, all shut down by the communists who buried them in sand and gravel. This young man decided to do something radical. He falsified a letter written supposedly by the KGB headquarters in Moscow, instructing the local offices in Georgia to open two mikvaot within 24 hours.

The local officials were deceived. Within a day, two mikvaot were open. Several months later, when they discovered the lie, they shut them down again.

And so it went. A mohel (the person performing the mitzvah of circumcision) was arrested, and another one was dispatched to serve the community; a yeshiva was closed, and another one opened elsewhere; a synagogue was destroyed and another one opened its portals in secrecy. It is a chapter in Jewish history unbeknownst to most.

But it sure seemed like a lost battle. Here was an individual rabbi, with a small group of pupils, staging an underground rebellion against a mighty empire that numbered in the hundreds of millions, and aspired to dominate the world. It was like an infant wrestling a giant, an ant attempting to defeat a military tank. The situation was hopeless.

Finally, in 1927—ninety-three&nbsp;years ago—they lost their patience with this man. The rabbi behind the counter-revolutionary work was arrested and sentenced to death by a firing squad. Foreign pressure and nothing less than a miracle convinced the KGB to alter the sentence to ten years in exile. It was then converted to three years, and then—quite unbelievable in the Soviet Regime where clergy and laymen alike were murdered like flies—he was completely exonerated. The 12th and 13th&nbsp;of the Hebrew month of Tamuz (this year it is July 1-2), mark&nbsp;the 96th&nbsp;anniversary since he was liberated from Stalin’s death sentence in 1927.

The individual behind the spiritual mutiny was the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950), who became the leader of Chabad in 1920, after the passing of his father. He selected nine of his young pupils to wage battle with him. The one sent to Georgia, falsifying the KGB document, was my grandfather, Simon Yakabashvili, my father’s father (1900-1953). He, together with hundreds of his colleagues, Chassidim throughout the Soviet Union, was arrested in 1938, tortured mercilessly and given a 25-year sentence in the Gulag. Most of his eight colleagues who accepted the oath never made it out of Stalin’s hell. They perished in the Soviet Union.

(My grandfather, Reb Simon, made it out of the USSR, but died several years later at the age of 53 in Toronto. He died on 2 Tamuz, 5713-1953, leaving behind there young sons, Gershon, Bezalel and Sholom. My father died in 2005, my uncle Bezalel died seven years ago. Their mother, Freida, passed on in 1954, one year after her husband. She was 44. One child remains, may he enjoy many long and healthy years).

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Investing in Eternity

More than nine decades have passed. This passage of time gives us the opportunity to answer the question: Who won? Stalin or Schneerson?

one century ago, Marx's socialism and Lenin’s communism heralded a new era for humanity. Its seemingly endless power and brutality seemed unbreakable.

Yet one individual stood up, a man who would not allow the awesome war machine of Mother Russia to blur his vision, to eclipse his clarity. In the depths of his soul, he was aware that history had an undercurrent often invisible to most but discernible to students of the long and dramatic narrative of our people. He knew with full conviction that evil might thrive but it will die; yet goodness, holiness, G-dliness—embodied in Torah and Mitzvos—are eternal.

And he chose to invest in eternity.

He probably did not know how exactly it would work out in the end. I am not sure he believed he would survive. But he knew that his mission in life was to sow seeds, though the trees were being felled one by one.

Cynics scoffed at him; close friends told him he was making a tragic mistake. Even many of his religious colleagues were convinced that he was wasting his time and energy fighting an impossible war. They either fled the country or maintained a low profile. Some great rabbis at the time felt he was trying to do the impossible and it was futile.

But more than 90 years later, this giant and what he represented have emerged triumphant. Today, despite uneasy times in Russia, in the republics of the former Soviet Union stand hundreds of synagogues, Jewish day schools, yeshivot, mikvaot, Jewish community centers. Since communism fell, the Lubavitcher Rebbe (the son-in-law of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe who was liberated in 1927) sent hundreds of ambassadors to create a Jewish renaissance. They span the entire length and breadth of the country, from Siberia to Tashkent; from Tbilisi to Krasnoyarsk. Over the last 30&nbsp;years, they have built more than one hundred (!) full-time Jewish day schools, in which more than 100,000 Jewish children received a Jewish Torah education. As this summer&nbsp;season began, dozens of Jewish day camps opened up throughout the former Soviet Union with tens of thousands of Jewish children who will enjoy a blissful summer coupled with the celebration of Jewish life.

I have a cousin, Rabbi Yerachmiel Garelick, who serves as the Chabad ambassador to Western Siberia. Jewish women had to travel for seven hours to visit a mikvah. He just completed building a magnificent mikvah in Tuman, Siberia!

And the Chabad couple in Birobidjhan,&nbsp;located on the Trans-Siberian Railway, near the China-Russia border, where Stalin wanted to exile three million&nbsp;Russian Jews, opened a Glat kosher restaurant there.

Last Chanukah, a large menorah stood tall in the Kremlin, casting the glow of Chanukah on the grounds where Stalin walked with Berya and Yezhov. On Lag Baomer (a Jewish holiday), thousands of Jewish children with kippot on their heads marched the streets of Moscow with signs proclaiming, "Hear oh Israel... G-d is One." Jewish life is bustling in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, etc.

Visiting Russia last summer, Russia’s Chief Rabbi, Berel Lazar, pointed to a massive Jewish school he built in Moscow stretching over a full block. “Right across from here were some of the main offices of the KGB, where the orders to decimate Judaism came from,” he said.

Across the street was a massive Jewish museum, one of the nicest I have ever seen, attracting thousands of weekly visitors, and telling the story of the Jewish people and their heritage. “How did you get the money for this?” I asked Rabbi Lazar. He smiled and said that the first million came from the private charity of Vladimir Putin. "The rest was easy."

I then entered, two streets over, the Marina Rashtze synagogue in Moscow, a massive and beautiful 8-story structure. Hundreds of Jews were praying and studying Torah. &nbsp;&nbsp;

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Comrade Stalin is dead; communism has faded away as hopelessly irrelevant and destructive. The sun of the nations is today a clod of darkness. The ideology of the Soviet Empire which declared "Lenin has not died and Stalin will not die. He is eternal," is now a mockery. Stalin and Lenin are as dead as one can be.&nbsp;But the Mikvaot built by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1927, they are still here, from Siberia to Moscow, to Tashkent.

&nbsp;If you will visit Russia this coming Shabbos, I am not sure you will find anybody celebrating the life and vision of Stalin, or even Khrushchev,&nbsp;Brezhnev, and Andropov. But you will find tens of thousands of Jews celebrating the&nbsp;liberation of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1927 and the narrative of one holy man’s triumph over one of the greatest mass-murderers in human history, sharing his vision,&nbsp;committing themselves to continue saturating the world with the light of Torah and Mitzvos.

So on this Shabbos, the 12th of Tamuz, lift up your glasses and say L’chayim! L’chayim to a Rebbe who inspired such heroism in so many disciples, many of them who paid the ultimate price. L’chayim to the incredible Jews of Russia who maintained the embers burning for seven decades, and then—when the opportunity came—fanned them into glowing flames. L’chayim to my dear Zeide, Reb Simon, whom I never met but whose life story is engraved in the core of my heart.

Today, we have many battles to fight, and plenty of darkness to conquer. It is easy to become cynical or depressed, leading to emotional paralysis. But our greatest leaders always knew better. They never allowed the mask of evil to define the narrative of history; they ensured that another story would dominate our imaginations and actions.

So can we.

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1) This figure was given to me by Rabbi Sholom Ber Levin, chief librarian of the Central Lubavitch Library in Brooklyn, NY.

Stalin Vs. Schneersohn - 96&nbsp;Years Later: Who Won?

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96 Years Later: Who Won?

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Tisha B'av Video: Napoleon & the Jews - The French Revolution Vs. the Tanya

This radio show, with Simon and YY Jacobson, was broadcast on Motzaei Shabbos, 20 Iyar 5775, May 9, 2015. In honor of his tenth yartzeit, two children paid tribute to their father. Gershon Jacobson, and his career as a Yiddish journalist for 50 years, and editor of the Algemeiner Journal.

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In Tribute to his 10th Yartzeit, Simon and YY Jacobson Discuss their Father's Career as a Yiddish Journalist for Half-a-Century

My Father Gershon Jacobson & Jewish Journalism

This lecture presented at the A-Time Shas-A-Thon on Sunday, Shevat 26, 5775, February 15, 2015, when hundreds of Jews completed Shas together. A journey into the story of the Jewish nation, the power of Torah, and how to view the future of our children and our nation.

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shimon hatzadik

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reb akiva

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A Nation Continuously in Question: The Future of the Jewish People

Siyum Hashas A-Time  Lecture

This class tells the story of the final fays of Rabbi Schnuer Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812), founder of  Chabad, while escaping the French Invasion of Russia int he summer of 1812. Why did the Rebbe despise the French Emperor Napoleon so deeply?  

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The Final Days of Rabbi Schnuer Zalman of Liadi, Founder of  Chabad, Escaping the French Invasion of Russia

Why Did the Alter Rebbe Despise Napoleon?

The Story of the Yeshiva Tomchei Temimmim -- Part 2. The Yeshivah Which Produced Revolutionaries

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The Story of the Yeshiva Tomchei Temimmim -- Part 2

The Yeshivah Which Produced Revolutionaries

Shabtei Zvi, The False Messiah (1) - How Did He Capture the Soul of the Jewish World?

Shabtei Zvi, The False Messiah (1)

How Did He Capture the Soul of the Jewish World?

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