Shipwreck - A Story for Passover Preparation

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

with hashem's loving grace welcome to um beams with your host laser broodie today's podcast is entitled the shipwreck the benich high tells a story about two jewish merchants from turkey who were aboard a ship in the mediterranean a terrible storm hit the ship at sea and wrecked it the ship's crew scrambled to their lifeboats but the two jews reuben and shimla when they were left behind so they had no other choice they jumped overboard and the raging waves were a concealed blessing that threw them to the shore of spain after a horrific ordeal at sea after a horrific ordeal at sea this was only a few months after the infamous spanish inquisition took place spain in 1943 was not exactly a friendly place for a jew if they'd be caught they'd either be faced with a choice of death or forced conversion heaven forbid when they decided it would be safer to split up so reuven and shimon each sought refuge on his own several weeks later they found the ship that would take them back to their home in turkey when they met at the port after not having seen each other in almost a month and they tearfully embraced one another and exchanged stories while praising and exchanged stories while praising hashem with every other word reuven told shimon about the wonderful hospitality and joy amazingly his host was a vegetarian it was no meat or poultry in the home let alone pork the host ate grains fish and vegetables and there was no shellfish in the host household either with the day reuben left he profusely thanked this host for the wonderful hospitality and the host replied in a whisper you're welcome my brother i noticed how you washed your hands before breaking bread and after visiting the restroom and i

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1. 0:00with hashem's loving grace welcome to um beams with your host laser broodie today's podcast is…
2. 0:32after a horrific ordeal at sea this was only a few months after the infamous spanish…
3. 1:03and exchanged stories while praising hashem with every other word reuven told shimon about the wonderful…
4. 1:33and after visiting the restroom and i see the light in your eyes i know you're…
5. 2:04according to lacha but he wondered why his friend reuven was so lucky in meriting a…
6. 2:34past the non-kosher restaurant i couldn't resist the tempting aromas so i went inside and i…
7. 3:05assistance we first have to do everything we possibly can in making our own best effort…
8. 3:36hashem surely helps us and our sages promise whoever is careful in keeping the laws of…

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