How To Get To Uman

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The opening of this shiur, in BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] in 1963 approximately don't take my word for it approximately 1963 there was the first group of American breast livers to travel to Uman by Robina Hammonds grave and that trip was very very expensive it costs people per ticket back then over a thousand dollars to pay for the ticket which 1960s was much more than a thousand dollars today we can multiply it by four by five by six so the ticket was very very expensive people went on that trip they literally killed themselves to get the money together there was one elder from the group his name was was Naftali Reichman of blessed memory he just simply wrote out a check and he joined the group he was number ten and for him there was the least obstacles from the rest of the compared to the rest of the group to get to money and it was a very emotional trip because it was a time of KGB Russia where the gates were closed and the government officially okayed and allowed this trip to happen it was even in the media in order to stress that the government was agreeing with the trip it was in the media the Russian media the world media and even the the the municipality the uman they prepared a nice welcome reception and meal for these ten Jewish people from North America coming to Amman this one after a rifleman made it easily and the other group of the people like who said they had to really kill themselves to get there so in the group when traveling to man the Astra man of tally how come you had it so easy

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