A $300 Million Dollar Kiddush Hashem Story!!

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

[Music] it started around eight o'clock and boom because a nice accurate General button still broke you can still see the orange blowing it's just no way to quantify this [Music] on December 11 1995 at 8 pm a boiler exploded in the largest textile factory exploded in the largest textile factory in America at the time the Malden Mills it burned the entire Factory to the ground the fire was so big it could be seen from miles away and it took an entire week to put out the fire completely at the time Mr Aaron feuerstein the owner the CEO of the company was celebrating his 70th birthday in the middle of the party one of the executives ran over to him and said Mr fewerstein Mr feuerstein there's a fire at the Mill by the time you got there the factory that had been built by his grandfather in the early 1900s was mostly gone which in the early 1900s was mostly gone which meant that overnight 3 000 employees who worked at Malden Mills lost their job as far as Mr feuerstein was concerned he was about to collect close to a half a billion dollars from the insurance company he was faced with the following decision either close the company and pocket the money or he can rebuild the company down south and hire cheaper labor over there and

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1. 0:00[Music] it started around eight o'clock and boom because a nice accurate General button still broke…
2. 1:02in the early 1900s was mostly gone which meant that overnight 3 000 employees who worked…
3. 2:02not only that he continues and he says every single one of you will continue receiving…
4. 3:05anashim in those circumstances where there is a moral vacuum do everything within your power to…
5. 4:06happened but recently when I heard about it again I wondered as Mr fierste is still…
6. 5:06them first of all the Torah as a young man when I read and studied the…
7. 6:08father Henry feustine he came over to this country in his teens and he read in…
8. 7:11but weren't treated like human beings they they were just terrific they wanted me to succeed…
9. 8:13show a beautiful piece of architecture I remember as a young man it was a fight…
10. 9:15[Music] God bless you and make you secure may God I see you through a security…

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