A Mitzvah Is Never Too Easy

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[Music] welcome back to breslav campus a an amazing story regarding with Avram Stern arts that's the tradition that it was with him Rober Stern arts a great-grandson of Arneson lived for a time in an Eastern Eastern village of Ukraine called kremenchug and he was at a certain period like a rough illogical thority arrive there of the community and there was an incident in that city or another village nearby that Russian soldiers came with Jews tied around there with their arms like handcuffed and tied and the Russians threatened like this they said these Jews were caught stealing and doing something illegal we're going to torture and kill them however if we're given ransom money we will set them free how much ransom money about approximately thirty thousand rubles which was a lot of money so the Jewish community approached the Rav they told the Rav the Rav now's not a time to learn we have to do what's called pity on stream to redeem Jews who are being taken captive and what is then they told the story about these two Jews who were taken custody by the brother the Russian soldiers and their their life is hanging and there's an opportunity to save them right now if they raise enough money so the RUF closed his book and he went to certain houses of certain wealthy Jews that he knew had money and he approached them about the great Mitzvah and the Rav and they asked the robber wondering with the first house to rob the man said to the Rav the wealthy man said the rough how much money does they want me to give to Patel Police meets RPG on schwim so the Rav said I want you to give 5,000 rubles he said that's all just 5,000

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1. 0:00[Music] welcome back to breslav campus a an amazing story regarding with Avram Stern arts that's…
2. 0:31thority arrive there of the community and there was an incident in that city or another…
3. 1:03we will set them free how much ransom money about approximately thirty thousand rubles which was…
4. 1:33life is hanging and there's an opportunity to save them right now if they raise enough…
5. 2:04rubles take ten I'll give you 10,000 so the rough took the money and he was…
6. 3:05money to all the donors so he ran and give back the money to donors then…
7. 3:36soldiers were like smiling on they the Jewish community they brought the money for the ransom…
8. 4:06away the soldiers and the Jews were cuffed they were uncuffed by the soldiers and they…
9. 4:37difficulty involved when I saw that I asked for help and it came so easily even…
10. 5:08to really really worry and think and to ponder this is possibly not a Mitzvah and…

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