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Devorah Goldstein shares her inspiring journey from being abandoned in China to being adopted by a Jewish couple and embracing Orthodox Judaism.
A 1h 27m chizuk shiur by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz. Like every video on Lehallel, it was judged and approved under the Lehallel law before it ever appeared — no unreviewed result is ever shown.


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The opening of this shiur, in Living Lchaim’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
but he like totally turned around cuz he's like this is like so weird and he saw behind him on a bench was something that looked like a red rag so he went closer to investigate and he saw that it wasn't really a red rag but it was a red silk jacket and in the red silk jacket was a newborn baby like a couple of hours old the umbilical cord was still attached there was still that newborn film and attached to the jacket was a note that said May whoever find this baby May health happiness and Fortune find your way so that baby was me and my father father y the Goldstein saw a little Chinese baby by herself left with no one there they had a choice leave her and let the Chinese government take her or adopt her and change her life and their Jewish lives forever this is the story how one act changed Generations this episode is in memory of Miram Saras Yakov mosha and shim and David bakov this episode is powered by bipping the top software company in the world twillery the makers of the coolest pun intended clothes of the coolest pun intended clothes paid the ultimate way to cash in on your points and of course Chicago the best way to help Chicago people in need and win a Tesla here we go I'm yakob ler and you're listening to inspiration for the nation okay long time planning this very long time Mrs dvor Goldstein thank you so much for being here a lot to ask you but could you take us back to before you could remember where you're from and kind of
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- 0:00but he like totally turned around cuz he's like this is like so weird and he…
- 5:37days of payones and so he would call my mother usually every day around 10:00 just…
- 11:49tiny petite and um you know I'm not so I mean I'm short but I'm not…
- 17:26you know closer to Creation so we have that little uh right um and my mother…
- 23:31love and you know in was able to instill in us a feeling of a love…
- 31:10know it's funny because when I hear these names out there now like RAB dly you…
- 36:50embarrassed and she felt badly you know and she nodded to me and I kind of…
- 43:00tried to convince her to come with me but so what what was your was there…
- 48:37that's where there this journalist was from and um he asked my father if he could…
- 54:45baby becomes yours I mean my mother ra schwam is my mother um and you know…
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- Chizuk — 1h 27m, by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz
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