The Trauma and Miracle of Russian Jewry

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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.

foreign left-wingers they can do it a little better maybe but the Russians have a traditional certain of them have a tradition of atheism that runs very very deep she was an atheist but they made up with her don't mix religion theology into history classes you teach history and we're good and she did a marvelous job kids were at the edge of their seats you know you can have history teachers that put you to sleep and you can have history teachers that Mesmerize you foreign they were dealing with the late 1800s and the early 1900s in Russia and she decided to quiz her class and she turned to the class and she says what was the most important event in Russian history in the year 1799. so one of the boys in the school says 1799 it's the year when the rabbi schneier Zalman of liade the outer River the author of The Tanya one of the great luminaries of Russian jury the founder of Chabad was liberated from zarist imprisonment of Powell the first she lost it that's 1799 some Rabbi who is irrelevant they brainwashed you they taught you garbage I don't know if that rapper ever existed even if he existed it's irrelevant even if he's relevant he should have been imprisoned if he was in prison he should have never came out and even if he did came come out it's nothing to mention 1799 is the year when Alex sander Pushkin was born whoo now since both of my parents are Russian my mother was born in kutais and my father was born in mamantovka name not far from Moscow so Pushkin was a household named by us because my father loved poetry and he loved pushkin's poems now you know that Pushkin is considered one of the greatest poets ever and in

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