Gone, but not Forgotten: Obscure Chassidic Dynasties of Yesteryear

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A date which will live in infamy. Both of those projects, initiatives got off the ground because of the girl slain in West Germany Out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn in the covenant. I saved 1 million Jewish children who were made to be cut loose. Whoever heard such beautiful words? It is never too little. It is never too late. And it is never enough. So, looking forward to a Tisha B'Av episode and a Detroit part two and many other exciting and great topics uh following Tisha B'Av and over the summer. It's going to be um some some some interesting stories. So, getting back to um the story of lesser-known Hasidic dynasties. Uh what does it mean that it's lesser-known? Why is it lesser-known? Does it mean that it was very, very small and and had a very little impact um and that's why it was lesser-known or is there other reasons that it was uh that it was lesser-known? Uh it wasn't so well known. Um perhaps uh it was well known and it was very large, but uh it was so completely wiped out in the Holocaust that uh that it only later on became uh less well known. Um so, that's that's the questions you want to ask. Uh you know, sometimes there's even very large ones that today are I wouldn't say they're unknown. Again, I'm very particular with what I'm saying now. I'm not saying they're unknown because uh as soon as you say

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1. 0:05A date which will live in infamy. Both of those projects, initiatives got off the ground…
2. 4:11Some of those were some of the largest ones in Poland before the war. Of course,…
3. 7:49Dąbrowa dynasty when he became a Hasidic leader in his own right in that town, town…
4. 10:56Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Ungar. And he immigrated to the United States and was a rabbi in…
5. 14:00the Israel scene, so therefore that's the name Skierniewice isn't lost to oblivion, but it was…
6. 17:07entirely disappeared. Vaslui was a Vasloi Vaslui was a Rizhin branch that uh almost disappeared. Uh…
7. 19:40And his son was Reb Menachem Mendel Hager of Kosov. He started the Kosov dynasty. He…
8. 22:44who I mentioned was one of the most fascinating characters in the annals of the Hasidic…
9. 25:51also in Romania, the same area. Bohush was a very prominent Ruzhin branch in Romania up…
10. 28:5620th century. It was only limited to Eastern Europe that whole time. And here, so Vienna…

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