70: Chanuka: The Great Escape

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

was niftar this year at the age of 104. 104 Rabbi David You know, he doesn't make videos and somebody went to ask him to make a video for Rabbi Scheinberg Yeshiva and he said, "I don't make videos." He says, "For Rabbi Scheinberg?" He says, "Oh, for Rabbi Scheinberg, then I have to." He said, "Did you ever wonder why Rabbi Yoshev Rabbi Scheinberg, you know, they were over 100?" Yeah, he says, "Cuz there's nobody to replace them." Somebody lives that long is cuz the knows that there's nobody in the world to take their place. Lived to 104. She lost children in the Holocaust, was tormented by the Communist, and managed to rebuild a family that is Shamrei Torah and Mitzvahs. May she continue to be a mailer to Yosher for her descendants and you so. It was interesting there was also someone who survived the Holocaust and lived to a very old age. They were sitting Shiva. Says my mother always wondered. Says the train came from her town and everybody was sent to the gas chambers except for her. And she said, "Was I not worthy to die as a Hashem?" And I told her daughter, I said, "Some people are chosen to live as a Hashem." And that's much harder. So, if went through the Holocaust, went through the Communist, and managed to build a Torah home that is such a tremendous thing. So, we're happy to to this week use it as a a Eli Nishmas for this wonderful wonderful lady and her family and all Kla'Yisroel should gain from her z'chus. Um the we're in the middle of our seminary series. Somebody asked me a uh are you done? I said, "Me? I'm just warming up." No, I'm not going to go on forever because, you know, I have other topics that I want to get to and I get uh

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