The Lubavitcher Rebbe and the History of Aviation

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

what a an unbelievable evening this has been and uh yes as the introduction mentioned i've spoken in a few places and seemingly i shouldn't be too nervous about this this is right at home this is it's 25 minutes from my house but i'm i'm kind of awestruck by the job they gave kind of awestruck by the job they gave me we're celebrating that ebb's 120th birthday and they told me to speak about the rabbi in less than 10 minutes i don't know how to describe anyone's life a life a person's life in 10 minutes let alone someone who was and continues to be larger than life so i'll tell you what i what i decided so i'll tell you what i what i decided to do we're in the cradle of aviation museum in case the people watching online don't know we're in the imax theater cradle of aviation and amazing it's actually very breathtaking here so i wanted to talk about uh aviation history if that's okay with you okay all right so uh we have some brought some visuals okay so this is uh kitty hawk north carolina december of 1903. orville and wilbur wright the wright orville and wilbur wright the wright brothers flew their first flight for for ages human beings had looked to the skies and seen the birds fly and dreamt of human flight and it was an impossibility it was fantasy until that fateful day and their plane flew olive 12 seconds 12 seconds now the same time this was happening in north carolina a little boy was about a year and a half old

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1. 0:02what a an unbelievable evening this has been and uh yes as the introduction mentioned i've…
2. 1:03so i'll tell you what i what i decided to do we're in the cradle of…
3. 2:35very rare glimpse that the rabbit once revealed about his personal life and about his childhood…
4. 4:08transatlantic flight now a year later the rebbe would marry his partner in life rabbits was…
5. 5:43more official it's a whole operation and there are representatives all over the country all over…
6. 7:16and uh things are going at a fever pitch at this point um [Music] are spreading…
7. 8:48the teldens come out to be the first shliya couple on long island and they make…
8. 10:49and i should add that the captain of that entirely civilian crew is a nice jewish…
9. 12:21and today as we celebrate that ebba's 120th birthday civilians are buying tickets into outer space…
10. 13:52that little boy saw as a possibility as a reality as a reality not just for…

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