Hesped For Harav Mordechai Leib Glatstein Zt"l - R' Daniel Glatstein

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

how are you as i said to live so long your life defied all logic eichmann selection lines crematoria you're pulled out at the last moment smuggling twillin into death camps with a gun at your head him in a flick every step of the way in your eighties the joke was you had the non-retirement dinner at 85 you pledged never to retire and then in your 90s you would go every morning to the kyle for davening for that me returning home three hours after you left zadie you said the hardest part about turning 90 was reading the rashi oysters and the gemara you could be at any sheer at any blood in shas and say along with the maggot sheer as if you learned the blood yesterday who could ever forget zadie when you were oily torah at 98 years old call me shalom you would think the man running to the oil attire was 30 years old 20 years old with such gevura with such as resource which says ava satora we all say where the amha nibhara were the chosen people whoever never heard of mordechai live gladstein say the words doesn't know what it means that we are the ahmadinfjar you pen the words in reference to seeing the warsaw ghetto thousands of skeletons littered with corpses faces distorted swollen you describe the rivers of blood you wrote the words how no imagination no matter how daring could possibly conceive anything we've seen or lived through no language has been created to describe the enormity of the holocaust you are the one who penned the words the yells of the women the weeping of the children their cries for despair and mercy ring in my ears till this very day

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2. 2:05oil attire was 30 years old 20 years old with such gevura with such as resource…
3. 3:38and yet somehow you emerged unscathed by these experiences one would have expected somebody to be…
4. 5:11to capture the greatness of your lifetime how did you do this was your best friend…
5. 7:19sadie today there's a great symphony it's a big yamcha today in the shaman there is…
6. 8:52did zaydi complete safer to him is coming to be macabre upon him the melbourne how…
7. 10:24in the seventh and final paragraph on one occasion we went to pittsburgh we visited say…
8. 12:26and he did not leave europe until every last survivor was able to either come to…
9. 13:59from the last day of shiva in the morning put him in the car put him…
10. 15:35you have to be toy there zadie was tauveya the meshiach he was metsape lagula more…

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