Purim 1953 with the Lubavitcher Rebbe

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okay welcome to this special class on the events of porm tud giml that's porm 1953 and just to give you a bit of background what how this class came about why we're here um my name is RAB sh and we've been studying a mic discourse from the called alenu which is about the lottery that h used or attempted to use lottery that h used or attempted to use as an instrument of destruction of the Jewish people God forbid and it goes into all types of deep explanation about seeming Randomness Divine Randomness Divine Choice um hashem's relationship with the Jewish people what that's based on and it's very very deep stuff we just finished studying that if you would like to study the actual text first of all you're in you're welcome to stud the text on your own but if you would like podcast platforms like Spotify or Google podcast or apple podcast uh or on Torah anytime you may be watching right now okay at any rate so if you would like to study the actual mimer the actual discourse there's where you can do it but this class came about because I'd mentioned that at the fa and at the Gathering where the rebba said that mimer there was this strange sort of occurrence which was understood to be connected to the understood to be connected to the mysterious sudden death of the H of that time of 1953 Stalin Yak so um that's what this class is about it's about what happened at the gimel 1953 and its connection to the death of Stalin uh before we begin our learning for tonight I want to dedicate tonight's class uh to the memory of YF

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1. 0:00okay welcome to this special class on the events of porm tud giml that's porm 1953…
2. 6:44didn't know who was running or what their policies were or anything like that he just…
3. 13:02it's it's an interesting coincidence but what okay so you should know that it's not far-fetched…
4. 19:18heaven but they've been in the world they know what money is so they got theab…
5. 25:31that would be mentioned like if the mimer was set in conjunction with an event such…
6. 31:44reading 8:00 p.m. New York time is 4 a.m. Moscow time at approximately this time after…
7. 37:21already fallen ill before long before the fa now it was porm it was on porm…
8. 43:33Thursday 2 p.m. New York Time 1 p.m. Moscow time doctors pronounced Stalin Dead when he…
9. 49:45and they were going to do terrible things and it was suggested it was like sort…
10. 55:59firstborn waged against their own leaders on shabas aod in 2448 the year of the Exodus…

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