Struggling With Faith During Difficult Times | Rabbi YY with Chanie Apfelbaum

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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.

Crown Heights section Brooklyn and uh at the time your family lived on Eastern Parkway. I think uh 706 now. 706, yeah. Eastern Parkway the corner of Brooklyn right at the corner of Brooklyn and I had a very close friend who lived in that building. So, as a kid I hung out around that building and I just always met your brother and you know, we would always exchange some words and gestures of friendship and I really watched him grow up. Few years older than him. Your brother was born which year Ari? Well, he would be 46 now. So, do the Well, he would be 46 now. So, do the math. Yeah, so I'm five years older than him. And uh you know, we always uh also knew about the special relationship he had with the Rebbe's uh wife cuz as a kid they always said he would hang out in the Rebbe's house together with your father. So, that was well known and uh then of course uh the day of his murder will be enshrined in uh our memories. That horrific day when he was gunned That horrific day when he was gunned down because he was a Jew Yeah. at the near the Brooklyn Bridge and uh today is the yard site, right? 30 years. Yeah. 1994 we remember that day and uh yeah, it was right at a few months before the Rebbe passed away. In In Ari was shot coming back. I think the Rebbe was returning from the hospital. Coming from Manhattan back back to Brooklyn. Took the Rebbe's bullet. You know, he was the target Rebbe's car.

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