The Contribution of the Maimonides to Judaism - Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Vakel other this monthshin mev 1986. I always davened Shabas and much of the week in 770 and already as a young child I had the place where I stood when the Reb would come down Friday night for Cababala Shabas. But as the Reba walked in to the shul, I like everybody else noticed, physical anguish on his face. And then I saw the Reb limping and almost had to be caught a few times to the point that for the way back they put tables that he should be able to lean on them as he walked out. Later I heard that it seemed like this was a case of very severe sciatica. Those whoever endured sciatica and a severe case of it could know the physical pain. And I think it was already the next morning that the Reba davened upstairs and this went on for quite a while. But that shabas was also shabas. So the Reb came down to Fabang and it was not easy to watch him coming down and reaching his place at the Fabang as a young child a baker actually shortly after Bitzvah I didn't understand much I still don't understand much but it was very obvious that at least from a physical perspective the Reb was in tremendous pain I asked myself What's the fabang going to look like? Is the Reb going to do a very very short fabangan? And it was already later years theba sometimes would fang much shorter maybe he'll do a very short fabang. So the will want to say something and fabang but we'll go up earlier. I was just thinking to myself, I didn't know. But every step literally you could see every step was korim. It was extremely it seemed excruciating. And as somebody who never saw the reb like that certainly not in

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