A reflection on the life and legacy of Rav Dovid Trenk.
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[Music] when a great person passes away it's the end of their life because they have completed their mission in this world but for us it's only the beginning even three years after reby's passing we have to start again and again learning reviewing who rebbe was how great he was what made him great and most importantly how did rebbe become that way i cannot think of a better person to talk to about this than his rabbits and mrs leia trink who stood by his side for over a half a century and helped him accomplish what he has accomplished and the rabbits graciously agreed for me to interview her so all of us can be inspired to learn from rebbie's ways when the art scroll book was published just love them written beautifully by shirley basser the rebbitzen got a call from one mechanic who asked her it's hard for me to believe that such a person never existed but i have one question for you existed but i have one question for you was he born this way or did he work on himself and i said to him what do you mean i believe that he was born normal like every other person so it's obvious to me that he worked on himself but he had a lot of models of who he wanted to be like he wanted to be mike dress he wanted to be a reputable britney he wanted to be rabbi fighter male and he always talked about it and he told his own tommy them them i'm used about boys if you'll be good then i'll tell you this is passion the
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