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Rabbi Berel Wein - Emunah and Goral - the Miracle of Eretz Yisrael

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Rabbi Berel Wein

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[Music] in part one of the miracle of Israel the saved remnant we saw the shock of the American and Allied forces discovering the horrors of the Nazi death camps the problems and challenges facing the survivors after liberation and their search for family and loved ones who may have survived we saw the stark reality of we saw the stark reality of anti-semitism after the war the displaced persons camps and the indifference of the world to the survivors plight [Music] we saw their crisis of faith and the remarkable personal stories of faith after the Holocaust [Music] we saw the untold story of Sephardic jewelry during the war jewelry during the war [Music] the efforts of briefs huh the escape movement that smuggled survivors from Europe to Palestine and the unfolding drama of the British naval blockade that tried to stop them we saw the armed resistance of the Jewish freedom fighters against the British and we saw the dramatic story of British and we saw the dramatic story of the Exodus and the 4,500 survivors on it who were shipped back to the death land Germany now to faith and fates the miracle of Israel was struggle for the state and how it came into existence [Music] [Music] [Applause] with world opinion swinging in favor of the refugees in Europe and the establishment of a Jewish state the Zionists in Palestine into the DP camps still needed the help and influence of world Jewry to support their cause especially in America [Music] in America although not everyone is

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  1. 0:00[Music] in part one of the miracle of Israel the saved remnant we saw the shock
  2. 4:48oppressors now public opinion in the world would not accept it at a certain point the
  3. 9:30Stalin closed the doors on Soviet immigration the effect of this was that now several million
  4. 14:07Redemption aren't exactly the most appropriate Jewish role models so there's a basic theological problem and
  5. 18:45[Music] and the Arab stood up and said over our dead bodies and walked out I
  6. 23:59Arab anti-jewish aggression escalated within the first week sixty-two Jews were murdered by the Arabs over
  7. 28:46Arab struggles were not so much against the Jews at first but different Arab chieftains and
  8. 33:33partition of India with great movements of people on both sides in Europe in the end
  9. 38:13who had remained his lifelong friend Zionist leaders approached Jacobsen to prevail upon Truman to talk
  10. 43:06nation and for us survivors for sure it meant a lot that we can be in

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