Unbreakable | Rabbi Eliyohu Meir Schmeltzer

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[Music] several months ago I traveled to Chicago for a Simka in the family and I got into a taxi and I told him exactly where we want to go we want to go to the Peterson Park neighborhood and he says oh that's the Jewish neighborhood I said yes it is as we got closer to the neighborhood to be precise St Louis and Peterson anyone familiar at the Peterson Park Jewish neighborhood he turns to me and he says we are now in the Jewish neighborhood I said how do you you know he says because the I'm looking at the people in the street I see the way the women handle themselves I see the way they're modestly dressed I see the way they conduct themselves it's obvious that this is a Jewish neighborhood and I said to myself that this cab driver a Haitian cab driver should understand what kadas AM is just by looking outside on the street and I was thinking where does this come from and I was reminded of a story that my brother a prolific writer writes the following story there was a he told I want to share with you an experience from when I was in the labor camps back in the war when the Nazis yakam conquered Poland they had to lay new train lines to be able to transport their soldiers so they had a lay track so they grabbed a bunch of yiden from the local labor camps the concentration camps they handed them crude sticks and iron picks to smash up the rocks in the road to flatten the road to be able to

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1. 0:03[Music] several months ago I traveled to Chicago for a Simka in the family and I…
2. 0:33street I see the way the women handle themselves I see the way they're modestly dressed…
3. 1:03a he told I want to share with you an experience from when I was in…
4. 1:33lay the tracks the train tracks ran on top of a graveyard and they instructed us…
5. 2:03smashing and it wouldn't budge and I continued to smash and then my iron pick smashed…
6. 2:33force and the top of the pig flew into his face and he walked away cursing…
7. 3:03said to myself the roots that were planted could not be budged it remained staunch the…
8. 3:34shine and every one of us could grab onto that root that root which sarne and…

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