Hi everyone. What an amazing crowd. Eager faces. Thank you everyone for coming. It's a tremendous privilege and an honor that we have here. Have anyone here met a real lord before? I didn't say the lord. I said a lord. Because if you haven't, this is the opportunity to hear a real Lord speak.

Someone who's doing amazing work all over the world, I'm sure.

Many of you've heard him speak before.

If not, you're in for a tremendous and amazing treat.

And he's now part of Yeshiva University faculty.

Round of applause.

His name of course is Rabbi, oh, he's got...

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, originally from England, of course.

He is the Kressel and Afrat family university professor of Jewish thought here at Yisheba University. Myself and Shoshana Shachda were told

a number of months ago that Lord Sacks would be speaking for us. And when I say us, I mean the Mechina students here at Stern College.

A round of applause for all of you.

Those of you are in the program, have been through the program,

or attending some of the classes in the program while standing room only.

Okay, guys, chill out, take a seat on the floor.

It's all good.

It's all coming in We're still coming in.

We are really thrilled to have him here.

Our program, Mechina program under myself and Mr. Shana Schechter, who's here over there.

She runs the program for us.

Has really grown and blossomed over the many years we've been running it together

and the appreciation we get from the students and the faculty really shows itself and this

is the gift that we get we you get to hear lord jonathan sacks speak anybody else, which is a tremendous privilege and an

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