The Heart of Ukraine: Life & Times of Reb Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1878-1944)

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

really want to welcome all of you joining us from all parts of montana it's really a great privilege and thrilling thrilling opportunity to be able to be invited by rabbi and robertson brook to this amazing evening commemorating a yard site of a great figure in jewish history a great personality a person whose life story still remains powerfully inspirational and i think relevant to our lives today many decades later so first of all thank you and i'm so happy to be here with every all of you who are joining us for montana wherever you're joining us from and again thank you for this great great opportunity so today as you know is the 20th day of the hebrew month of of and it marks as rabbi brook just mentioned the 76th anniversary of the passing of a person i would call and define as the rock of ukraine and i would like to dedicate this evening and the following few minutes to sketch some of the features of this remarkable person's life because a yard site an anniversary of passing is a time to commemorate a life to pay tribute to a life and most importantly to become empowered and inspired by the examples set for us by our great teachers leaders and mentors that can inspire us and infuse us with perspective and enthusiasm at this very day even if we're living in a different country and under different circumstances nonetheless every person has their ups and downs and we have our challenges and there's much to be learned from this extraordinary figure the lobacci rebbe is quite well known certainly in montana after rabbi brooks

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1. 0:32really want to welcome all of you joining us from all parts of montana it's really…
2. 6:09one was label all three very gifted kids gifted children great minds in the year 1909…
3. 12:21engulfed in this what was then called the great war later would be called the first…
4. 18:31educators religious leaders moyles shakhtar anyone involved in public jewish life underground most of them either…
5. 24:36jewish scholarship of the talmud of jewish spirituality and it was synthesized in his mind this…
6. 30:43and denied that they were jewish nothing jewish about them they're part of the socialist revolution…
7. 36:54his story is unique his father was a college student mark guerrari martha who lived in…
8. 43:00relatively speaking her comfortable home her city she was a rabbitson and she follows him she…
9. 49:39father again his mother ultimately left almata she went to visit her home but there was…
10. 55:48that israel had with russia the laboratory ever managed to get those manuscripts out of the…

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