Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Chayei Sarah (Video #53)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yehoshua Balkany’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

good evening I hope you're weak since last week was productive successful and plentiful uh this week on November 8th it is the 84th anniversary of kristallnacht and Crystal Knockouts in Germany when suddenly all the police and fire people suddenly all the police and fire people went wild in the most beastly fashion destroying left and right beautiful Sewells that were existing in Germany the question of Sherman Schwab posed ones was why was it called Crystal not which means the shattering of the glass it could have been a much more descriptive title describing the day as such ugly disc destruction and so much of the history of the Jewish people in that country being totally decimated and completely destroyed so he explained and said that the reason that the befitting name was shattering up the glass was because was shattering up the glass was because the concept of shattering let's not forget that Germany was one of the most cultured communities in the world people went once a week to the opera house they wore white bow ties and Tails they wore white gloves they had tremendous museums throughout the country and many museums throughout the country and many private people possessed treasured art and in pictures and all sorts of things which molded a country into a cultural center but without Torah and Torah ideals and godliness they became so destructive in the most beastly disgusting fashion in the most beastly disgusting fashion like it says that there were 300 shocked them 300 ritual Slaughters who when they finish acting One Night in came the Nazis and they checked at all 300 something but many of them refused to take off their white gloves because they said to the Jews I mean we are cutting your throat and we don't want any blood on our hands so isn't it the prim and

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6. 26:28but the gemara saved them a first and once and point out something else by telling…
7. 31:43something to him he knew that he was a Godly Man and that if he said…
8. 37:32that he went going down to Missouri and he didn't have the money to pay the…
9. 42:42his loyal servant but at the same token money is not at the level of that…
10. 47:53every Friday now when she passed away and and after she lit the candle the candle…

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