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Beha'aloscha A Triple Elevation

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The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf

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[music] >> All right, everyone. Good evening. Thank you for joining and we are on on the Parsha in My Life class. This week is Parshas Balak, which the content of the class is going to be all about elevating souls. So, today especially is a good time to elevate souls. And let me share with you something really interesting divine providence that moved my mother my mother to tears today. She called me and I'm going to fulfill my mother's wish in Kibud Av Em and honoring your parents to do to make this introduction today's class. So, my family from my mother's side my grandfather and my grandmother were Holocaust survivors. They were in the camps. Both of them lost their in their entire family. My grandma lost all of her siblings. Besides one sister that she survived. It was a famous story. It was written up, two sisters in Auschwitz. Very, very um powerful story. Now, my grandfather, my mother my mother's father, I think this is his mother and his siblings were sent to Auschwitz and the yard site is today. Which means we commemorate the yard sites. The Usually the women and children were murdered as soon as they arrived. It didn't take uh much longer. They were sent to the gas chambers. So, anybody that was weak with they they they worked very fast. The efficiency of the Germans of the Nazis uh in in exterminating, sadly. So, usually the way it it it is a tradition by most of the

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