Who We Really Are | Rabbi Naftali Reich

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[music] >> The legendary Ger Mashkiah Reb Gedolah Eisner Zecher Tzadik Livracha was walking in the streets of Lodz after the Second World War seeking out survivors, [music] those with whom he could impart words of chizuk, support, and encouragement. >> [music] >> And he noticed across the street there was a bochur, that was one of his former talmidim. [music] He went over to him, "Yankele, vos machst du? How are you?" Yankele wasn't wearing a yarmulke, of Yankele wasn't wearing a yarmulke, of course, it's his, [music] and he was a little shamefaced, and he said, "Rebbi," he said, "during the war I was sheltered in a basement by a Polish couple, a Catholic couple. They looked after me, and their teenage daughter every day gave me food and endangered their lives on my behalf. She was [music] very fond of me, this girl, and she proposed to me, and I'm going to marry her." "Yankele," said Reb Gedolah, "MAZEL TOV! BISACHUSON! WOW!" And he gave him a big hug.

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1. 0:03[music] >> The legendary Ger Mashkiah Reb Gedolah Eisner Zecher Tzadik Livracha was walking in the…
2. 0:34Yankele wasn't wearing a yarmulke, of course, it's his, [music] and he was a little shamefaced,…
3. 1:04gave him a big hug. >> [music] >> And then he said, "Yankele, do you know…
4. 1:34hug. And then he said to him, "Yankele, I'm not such a boki in Shulchan Aruch…
5. 2:05No mit [music] gutens. And sometimes to us ourselves, no mit gutens. [music] The yetzer hara…
6. 2:35the heilige Yesod Avodah on the possuk. [music] Hamelech says in Mishlei, "Mussar Hashem, the mussar…
7. 3:05It's true. It's hard. It's difficult. We are [music] very tempted with all kinds of rationalizations…

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