Light in the Darkness - Inspiring Stories For Tisha B'Av.

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

okay so good evening from osamer in the middle of a blackout they say this uh the three weeks is a period of darkness and uh we're sitting here in the dark except for the emergency lighting but in kolza we want to learn some torah tonight and bring some light to the three weeks the satmar rav zaikaz title bomb title bomb was known as a fierce kanoi champion the defendant of jewish values and he had opinions which not everybody agreed with and he clung to them with fierceness and he wouldn't wouldn't move on them and what's less than well known about him is that he had a heart of gold he was very fearsome in some ways but he was a what they call a soft touch the story goes the one day there was this con man a guy called yosel who weaseled his way in to see the satmarov and uh he man he poured out this this tale of woe he was telling the samurai how his uh his wife was in and out of mental institutions and his son was about to be evicted because he couldn't pay the rent and his daughter was 29 and she couldn't find a shidduch one sorrow after another one problem after another until the

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