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CHANUKA: The Battle for the Jewish Home

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Rabbi Menachem Nissel

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further ado let's go straight into the sugar over here um i don't know if any of you have heard of a mechanical educator called rabbi dr moshe flesh okay i don't know if you've heard of him it's okay if you haven't and the year was 1915. the year was 1915 and the place was vienna and he was giving a hanukkah class and he was speaking about a woman by the and he was speaking about a woman by the name of yehudis in english we call her judith and she was one of the unspoken heroines one of the great heroes of the chanukah story the story that i'm about to share with you the version i'm about to give to you is not so well known but the woman herself needs to have special special mention because when rabbi flesh rabbi dr moshe flesh was giving over this class there was a woman that had just arrived from krakow a young lady from krakow a young lady single lady and she was listening fascinated about the story of yahoodis and she's thinking to herself why is it that where i come from people don't know how to tell our history with passion with a message with a power that can actually change our lives and she went back home to poland after the war was over and she started the basiaco moment that's it we're talking about sarah schneider and as we like to say that without the

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  1. 0:00further ado let's go straight into the sugar over here um i don't know if any
  2. 4:34cuddish moment of all so what happened there was the wedding of the century it was
  3. 9:09maybe that's going to solve all our problems let's be honest with you is moving us
  4. 13:44she says she disrobed herself and her brothers saw what was happening in front of their
  5. 18:24emitter derisive unifying god's name it's very hard to understand what the nature of the mitza
  6. 23:37they say that that same park cotton that exactly same pachorton that yaakov avinu saved he
  7. 28:12i want to share with you that it's not right what we do in our schools
  8. 32:57allow me at least to tell them your name a name is a person's essence i
  9. 38:06my home where i have my shabbos table where i make my say tonight and i
  10. 42:41i say you want to listen to non-jewish music that's why you have a car that's

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