Rosh Hashanah Inspiration: The Sassoon Family Tragedy and the Great Gift of Teshuva

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

and the crowd had come to show solidarity to the sassoon family for one of the most horrific tragedies of recent memory loudspeakers would broadcast the indescribable pain of the masbidem it was exactly six months ago from today it was a friday night the silence of the night was broken by the crack of shattering glass and a quiet roar that grew louder and louder but the crackling sound of the electrical fire was not loud enough to wake up the sleeping children and surreptitiously the fire snuck up the staircase the mother of the house gail sassoon she wakes up but a wall of fire and thick black smoke blocks her way to the rooms where her eight children were sleeping she tries her best to reach them but is left with no choice she jumps out the second story window and runs across the street to get help she screams save my children please she's severely burned but she dashes across the street to her cousin's house she bangs on the door they could barely recognize her they didn't understand what was going on the first thing she says is please give me something to cover my hair then she screams call hatsallah save my children had sola came they put her on a stretcher and they she asked the hat solo is my hair still covered and she cries where are my eight babies gabby's sisler the father of the house never left for shabbos but that particular shabbos was different he's attending a conference meanwhile year fifteen-year-old sipora the

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1. 0:32and the crowd had come to show solidarity to the sassoon family for one of the…
2. 1:33but is left with no choice she jumps out the second story window and runs across…
3. 2:36sassoon's second child wakes up in darkness coughing thick black cloud envelops her chokes her blinds…
4. 3:38but he can't tell her the truth they're being taken care of he says meanwhile shabbos…
5. 4:38they look at each other they're being taken care of they tell him soon gabby's brother-in-law…
6. 5:42that when the heavenly court convenes at the sound of the shaifar do we understand now…
7. 6:43doesn't need any help do we understand what it means that barash hashanah do we understand…
8. 7:46that the rambam writes that before a person does chuva they may be so sullied in…
9. 8:58and i will open for you doors and openings that wagons could pass through hashem says…
10. 10:00whether it's to be more careful in learning in minion and fila whether it's to perform…

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