A Torah shiur on Zimri, R Akiva, and the escape from Budapest.
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foreign good evening ladies and gentlemen tonight happen to be in lakewood new jersey back by the house of my talmud shemsher bless gal his wonderful family he opened up his house to me this past summer we ran all the classes from this basement shams gal and his family and his rabbanite to be zohed to bring up great banim in a house of torah and we should all be zohar to see great nakhat from him and from his children in claudius i'm great hakkar tatov to those who give us a hand in spreading tauran claw israel oh i know that last week we spoke in detail about this incredible trip that literally as at the last moment myself and two friends two talmidim took to budapest to hungary we went on the yard side of the great we went on the yard side of the great rabshaya ben ramosa rib shiala karistier and i know that thursday night's class was in fantastic detail of the miracles and i cannot underestimate when i emphasize again the miracles that we watch that we saw every step of the way the entire trip on the way there the actual experience where typically the actual experience where typically i'm told that ten twenty thousand people generally show up to the yard side of rep shia the fact that hungary had a lockdown from 10 pm to 5 am was i guess an opportunity in a way because came 10 o'clock most of the people left we were there in the cave with a hundred guys at eleven o'clock eighty guys
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