As Long as a Jew is Alive | Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky

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

In the outskirts of the town of Izhbitza in Poland in the 1800s, there was a small little river. And in order to get from one side to the other, you had two options. Either you walked all the way around or there was a narrow footbridge that you were able to go across. Now, in this town of Izhbitza there was a young boy. This young boy, his name was Gershon Henoch. Now this Gershon Henoch’l was not just a regular little kid. He was, in fact, the grandson of the Rebbe. The Rebbe of the town of Izhbitza was none other than R’ Mordechai Yosef of Izhbitza, the Mei Hashiloach. And this little boy would grow up to become a big Tzaddik in his own right, the Radziner Rebbe, but the story goes as follows. This Gershon Henoch’l was a little bit of a rambunctious, energetic kid, and, for whatever reason, he wanted to get to the other side of the river. So he's running to go across with this footbridge. His luck, there was an old Chosid that happened to be in front of him, and this old Chosid is walking at the old Chosid’s pace. So as a kid, you know, he did something which maybe sometimes as an adult, we wish we can do, but we can't, which is he gave the old man a little bit of a nudge,

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1. 0:07In the outskirts of the town of Izhbitza in Poland in the 1800s, there was a…
2. 0:39the Radziner Rebbe, but the story goes as follows. This Gershon Henoch’l was a little bit…
3. 1:09like, you know, Can I pass? And so the old Chosid turns around and sees this…
4. 1:39So the old Chosid was very shaken by that, the Chutzpah, to say about the Chozeh:…
5. 2:11To compare me to the Chozeh? And he goes on like this, and the kid is…
6. 2:41Does that mean that we’ll be as great of a Navi as Moshe? No. Was the…
7. 3:11as long as a person's alive, they have to dream and aspire to be as great…

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