A Link in the Chain | Rabbi Moshe Elefant

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

War II, he had a neighbor in the next bed who had been a religious Jew and after seeing what was going on in that terrible period left being observant. And he said that what happened in Bergen Belin with the Nazis Yumak Shimom had begun again. They thought it was funny. It was sadistic that every morning the Jews would have to dig a big hole and they would have to jump over that hole and if you made it great and if you didn't make it as you fell into the hole didn't make it as you fell into the hole they would shoot you and kill you. Every day they chose a different barrack and one day they chose the barrack of where the blujb and this person was in. Everybody was sure the blujba would not make it. The Reb approached the side of the hole that he was supposed to jump and he jumped over. After him came his neighbor who also was successful in jumping and the neighbor told the Reb, "The reason I made it is because I grabbed onto you not physically but I

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1. 0:30War II, he had a neighbor in the next bed who had been a religious Jew…
2. 1:01didn't make it as you fell into the hole they would shoot you and kill you.…
3. 1:32grabbed onto you not physically but I saw if you can do it then I can…
4. 2:03situations in life that we think are difficult, realize that we have all the previous generations…
5. 2:33that will give us the strength and the ability to face all challenges. [Music]…

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