Yehuda Geberer shares the story of Rav Moshenyu of Boyan and The Eternal Shema Yisroel at Auschwitz

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people will live forever and he turns to all those around him and says let's die as jews let's give meaning to our deaths let's die with ishmael's stroll and together they shout out can you imagine a whole gas chamber people led by one of the daily they're a member of the zunda commando heard this he wrote it down in one of his notes that he ended up burying lee blankfest also doesn't survive the war but his notes did and told us the story so the biannual rebbe is talking to an so the biannual rebbe is talking to an ss officer he's talking to the people around him who died maybe he's also talking to us here today who came to hear his story you came to hear what he has to tell us about how they decide to die about how this defiance in the face of the ss officer you're not going to succeed in destroying the jewish people he was right we're here we came back and we're here to hear about shema israel so it's at this place the darkest place on earth where the zunda commando

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1. 0:00people will live forever and he turns to all those around him and says let's die…
2. 0:32so the biannual rebbe is talking to an ss officer he's talking to the people around…
3. 1:02place on earth where the zunda commando every few days would get up and say kaddish…
4. 1:32of europe here and to come to hear what what what what did they do what…
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