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Clinging to Our Principles | Rabbi Uren Reich

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Vayimaen

A message on the importance of clinging to Jewish principles and values.

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[Music] this mid is called very appropriately V means to stly refuse even when it's painfully difficult yadik was feeling overwhelming pressure being a strange Foreigner in a place where was in power and was pressuring him as the gar says means to stubbornly him as the gar says means to stubbornly refuse and to cling to your principles and V is not only inir V takes the strength of character to do what we know we have to do and not do what we know we dare not do I'd like to share a story with you that I heard recently from my aunt the story the way she remembers it as a child about my grandmother Mrs stambuk of London Mrs stambuk of London was a young Widow in her 30s with nine children when her husband Ros passed children when her husband Ros passed away tragically and she brought them up heroically with tremendous determination that they should grow up to be B and mus when the war broke out one of the greatest difficulties in bringing up her children during the war was that she could not contact her father who lived in Switzerland who was a great and she couldn't continue to ask him all her questions and at one point London was being bombed relentlessly by the Germans

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  1. 0:00[Music] this mid is called very appropriately V means to stly refuse even when it's painfully…
  2. 0:31him as the gar says means to stubbornly refuse and to cling to your principles and…
  3. 1:03children when her husband Ros passed away tragically and she brought them up heroically with tremendous…
  4. 1:33being bombed relentlessly by the Germans and Sir Winston Churchill the Prime Minister of England made…
  5. 2:03his D and his at that time the only one she knew close to her that…
  6. 2:36till Monday she was very taken AB back it was a day before the boat was…
  7. 3:06there was a tremendous disappointment in the house a day later they heard on the radio…
  8. 3:38gain let's hold on to that one [Music] word…

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