Remembering the visionary and trailblazer of Chabad.org, Rabbi YY Kazen.

[Music] well a vision is like uh the difference between someone standing in a valley and describing the Horizon and someone standing at the peak of a mountain and describing the Horizon a vision of someone was able to go beyond the details of the here and now and can see the bigger picture here's a man r cazin a single guy without resources transformed millions of lives mamish did not understand what he's talking about he tried to explain to me what the internet means cyberspace but I'd never heard of it and I didn't get it oh definitely the internet wasn't unknown no one knew what it was it was a wild concept you're dialing up similar to a fax machine which we were very familiar with you're dialing up to a connection and from there you have access to the entire world and I don't know what it is that that triggered it but I think in the I guess in the late 70s the early 80s new technology started to pop in I think that he felt that there's something in the air here to me it appeared uncharacteristic he went to the traditional kabad parents were died in the wool Russian frankly it it was quite revolutionary Kor was one of the first 500 websites ever to go online that means that it's older than Google it's older than Amazon it's older than eBay it's older than the New York Times website it really is one of the first websites ever and I remember him coming back once excited and said to me um I got a response from someone in Alaska someone who's a military US military in Alaska but he loved the that particular article and he was like his whole we call K his whole passion was involved in it I mean there he was working in his basement not earning a living he did not have it easy financially at all really uh put everything he owned into this there was no major organization that he was headed by or running he was the everyday guy with wild and crazy ideas that when he put himself to it just happened that's who Yi was I think Rabbi Kasin was unique in seeing that the human beings weren't the commodity that the soul was the end user the human being that could be positively impacted was the person that' be experiencing it and so it really creates a completely different approach to you know how technology was used it undoubtedly embraced every form of technology to the fullest extent I think Yi Kasin took that message that the de gave us and said yes Embrace technology further the word of positive the word of good the word ofra mitus to the masses to.org which he founded is uh in his basement is the biggest Jewish website in the world it was all dialup modems that made that sound you know you know that thing I can't even copy it whatever