Chazaq Tisha B’Av Event 5774 (Date: 8/4/2014)

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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.

you can't even give it one day not even one day three weeks and we lead up to half a day I mean if we're serious about the Corbin business if we're really taking it seriously then you can't give in more than a few hours in the morning oh it's hot sauce okay we're finished with what's the meaning of this custom what's the meaning of this practice that halfway through the day we get off the floor I recently came across an article written by a Survivor a holocaust Survivor thank God Rabbi Kraft always this book so beautifully about these topics the name of this book I have it over here theological and halachic Reflections on the Holocaust there's an article here that gives a first-hand account of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising the article was written by a great RAV and Sadiq his name is Rabbi Mordechai lab gladstein Hashem should watch over him he happens to be my grandfather it's an article I had never seen before I just came across it about a month ago I would like to read it to you a first hand account he says I am the man who saw the Affliction of my people I am both the victim and the witness I saw the Warsaw Ghetto with thousands of skeletons extending their bony arms as if begging for mercy in life I saw the Warsaw Ghetto their face is distorted swollen Their Eyes Wide Open skulls crushed blood everywhere rivers of blood the blood of my brothers the blood of my sisters the blood of my father the blood

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1. 0:30you can't even give it one day not even one day three weeks and we lead…
2. 2:33of my mother writes my grandfather no imagination no matter how daring could ever conceive of…
3. 5:08says my grandfather they ring in my ears till this very day Hashem begging God to…
4. 7:46for water it's better without water this way death will sooner rid of rid us of…
5. 10:28that's the greatest Miracle you will ever see if you only knew how God's been looking…
6. 13:06how can a heretic not be absolutely ashamed by analyzing our situation in the world we…
7. 15:45wanted you is there any generation that could say to God with more feeling look how…
8. 18:24so as we sit on the floor and we mourn and we cry for the tragedies…
9. 20:58now is not the time to wallow in self-pity sipping your wine there's a world to…
10. 23:33upon is leaving in 1949 by the way before he left he found connections for every…

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