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Proud To Be A Jew - Rabbi Paysach Krohn (Chessed - Kiddush Hashem) STORY

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Rabbi Paysach Krohn

Rabbi Paysach Krohn shares a story about pride in being Jewish and performing chessed.

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tells it to me after they tell me the story says you want to know how to print my name how to spell my name right isn't that what happened tonight at the restaurant okay but anyway so what happened is it was a great story it's amazing charles abalafa tells me that ten years ago he was not as free as he is today because today because of the shalom fear of organization he became much roomer but he was so much room he was shown the shabbos but his parents were not from and they had a home in a very fancy area called guaduja which is 75 miles away from sao paulo and they call him one friday morning he said charles we'd like you to come to shabbat now we know that you're observant there's a synagogue not far it's an orthodox synagogue come together and you'll be with us for shabbat and you'll be able to pray in your synagogue so he told me it's very very dangerous in sao paulo you cannot even walk into a shul from the outside you walk into like a little cubicle and they video you and you're locked on both sides and once you get the okay then they'll snap open the other door for you same thing in an apartment building same thing at any school there's no such

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  1. 0:30tells it to me after they tell me the story says you want to know how
  2. 1:03and they call him one friday morning he said charles we'd like you to come to
  3. 2:04hashem please i want to be i don't want to lose my life what should i
  4. 2:34the guys without the shirts you know these real low lifes they come over to what
  5. 3:38sunset so the driver without the shirt says oh you don't think i know what a
  6. 4:10next to guadalajara it's a christian city they didn't want to have any connections to judaism
  7. 5:16he says it's okay i'll go and he takes him he gets in there before sunset
  8. 5:47and then he says you know your son told me you're jewish is that true she
  9. 6:51god but they forced me to go to those schools and they forced me to marry
  10. 7:21she says you think i want it could you take it away take it away and

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