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The life and legacy of Rav Yehuda Aszod, a leader of Hungarian Orthodoxy in the 19th century.
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[Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the garage prolific team members slain in west germany out of the 24 who were killed were out of the 24 who were killed were americans who had come to learn i say one million jewish children who were made to become losers [Music] it is never too little it is never too late and it is never enough especially for khaim shobh and pestle should have a refusal as well one of the most famous things about ruby huda assad is the picture that's taken of him which supposedly and this is a legend which actually might be true i wasn't able to fully verify it the more i looked into it the more it seems like that it's a consensus that this is one of those legends that might actually be a true one so if it is that's wild um if it's not it's you know also wild um so that they it's you know also wild um so that they took a picture of him post-mortem after he had already passed away they propped him up in a chair they dressed him in his shabbos clothing put a safer in his arms and they take a picture of him for posterity which hung in the homes of every good upstanding hungarian jew until the holocaust the uh funds that they were able to raise from selling this picture they used to marry off the daughters or daughter the youngest daughter i think was the only one that married avraham so they they were able to use it as a
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- 0:02[Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the garage prolific team…
- 3:37today in today's orthodox society in the united states and israel so who is not a…
- 6:44with great sacrifice uh sends him off to study in yeshiva um in in several places…
- 9:46since he was an orphan um in in in in poland and lithuanian russian yeshiva is…
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- 15:57germany but when he was still in nearby and eisenstadt for many years and then there's…
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