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Reuven Vershuvsky shares his inspiring story of surviving behind the Iron Curtain and strengthening his connection to Hashem and Torah.
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Rabbi Ruben vershivski's story is one of heroism courage faith and resilience in the face of extreme hardship and unrelenting challenges hear him describe how he survived behind the Iron Curtain and emerged with his connection to Hashem and his Torah stronger than ever another uh activity that I was involved in was traveling and it partially has to do with with the fact that I I love to travel more than my friends at that time I was in uh University today it's called Moscow State University of railroad engineering Railways engineering engineering Railways engineering uh we had uh official Railways uniform that we had to wear and we had official ID of Ministry of Railways Communications that made it easier for me to travel uh anyway I had to invent a way anyway I had to invent a way to be excused on shabbosim so I had to invent a way to get medical excuse I learned how to fake hypertension high blood pressure and almost every week I would have a blood pressure blood pressure going up and a letter from a doctor their doctor the university had its own uh doctors that they accepted only only papers from them so anyway I had already a way to get excused from uh coming to classes on some days some days it made it easier for me to travel uh the reason for travel was um make more friends to make more friends and I felt like we in Moscow we have the luxury of foreigners once a month we had a foreigner or twice a month we had aphroma yid a month we had aphroma yid f from London or from New York from Baltimore from yerushalayim visiting Moscow and we have more transmissions for him and learning groups you go to Kiev and as opposed to 300 Moscow ballet shoes you have eight or ten
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- 0:02Rabbi Ruben vershivski's story is one of heroism courage faith and resilience in the face of…
- 2:33some days it made it easier for me to travel uh the reason for travel was…
- 5:08to some places in Ukraine and when I can teach great or at least to have…
- 7:42through the door before opening the door that was accustomed in in Russia before you open…
- 10:24and they didn't know exactly why I came the only thing I they knew that I…
- 13:30they didn't know that they needed something to uh to make it a criminal case not…
- 16:05a person working with numbers and formulas and and and and programming uh he forgot his…
- 18:43the interrogation there was official part of interrogation with a police major uh interrogating and there…
- 21:20uh Rabbi Aaron Troy Dayan Aaron Troy contacted the chief Rabbi Lord jacobowitz who gave in…
- 23:57decided to uh incriminate me with stealing apps for him from Key of shul they had…
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