What Our Grandmothers Heard at the Gates of Auschwitz

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

whether it's a production a play or a concert thousands of people are mesmerized by the artist by the performers by the musicians by the singers the stage is set impeccably to perfection there's the right sound effects lights and shadows a real real top-notch production and suddenly a child who's lost just walks on to stage and what happens everybody's focus shifts onto this child you can have there i don't know mordechai been david davremel freed uh whoever your favorite uh performer is it doesn't matter you can have the greatest cantors hazonum singers that little child who's looking for his mommy and sheepishly just walks across stage managed to attract the attention of all 10 or 20 000 people in the room you feel bad almost right you can you feel almost bad for the singer you know he's trying so hard but everybody's attention goes to the child why and by the way it's always like that right i can be giving a sheer i think it's a pretty good chair but he's listening yeah then somebody comes in like late sits in the front or somebody comes in with food and everybody loses their attention and is attracted to that person i've been trying to understand for years why is it why is that perhaps one answer is it's the only part of the show that's not choreographed it's the only part that's authentic real raw it was not part of the plan there were no preparations for this somehow there's a real story here that emerges that doesn't exist in the

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