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He CRITICIZED the Rebbe | Letter #20 of 30 Letters in 30 Days

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Rabbi Shais Taub

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All right, we're gonna give a little stucker first as is our custom. We use the We like to use the Kabad Pushka app because it's fun and it's a good cause. Remember, we're learning in order to prepare a birthday gift for birthday and we also give Stucka. It's also part of the gift. There you go. [Music] Awesome. Okay. Fine. Let me silence the phone. Great. Won't hear anything over here. Um, yeah, silence. All right. We have a very interesting letter tonight. I want to thank Zan Bendit, who's a member of our 30 letters in 30 days team, who found this letter, not just the letter, but found the background. Um because it's you know very when you read anytime you read a letter the letter itself is enjoyable but then when you have background to fill it in it's like a whole other level of gishmach and this happens to be one of those cases where you have the background and I actually have archival uh materials to share with you. Fun fun. Okay so little background. The background is um well you know I'm not going to give back. I'm going to start reading the letter and as it comes up I'm going to mention the background. Okay. This is a letter from the eth volume letter 2249. Um the day is um which by the way is um site Brooklyn New York. And here are the titles. Ask Nimro Aldi Drud which is Steinberg. Okay. Who is this person who gets all these titles? This Dr. Steinberg Yitzk Nakman or Isaac Isaac

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