Why, God? Why?: A Survivor Returns to Auschwitz, 1943

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

It's the after the Shimaia, it's such a privilege to be able to sit with all of you. And to share words of his and clarity this Rosh Chodesh Av. Here we come to another Chodesh Av, another year mission of Av Memat and the Simcha that time period when we sit and we mourn and we reflect on the way things were and the way things will be but much more apropos and more relevant and more relatable for our condition, how things could be but somehow aren't. That way in which all of us are striving, yearning to come back to Yerushalayim to come back to what Chazal describe as the inner dimension of Yerushalayim as Yirah Shalem, Yirah in a more deep and relevant understanding awe to live with the awareness of Hakadosh Baruchu, Yirah Shalem, Yerushalayim, to live lives of consciousness of our creator, of Hakadosh Baruchu's love, of Hakadosh Baruchu's presence. And we come yet to another Chodesh Av where that is the very real possibility that all of us are striving to manifest in our lives, that all of us are yearning to see manifest in our communities, in our nation, in the whole entire world. But but we're not quite there yet. The Beit Hamikdash is still in a state of of destruction and disgrace. Yerushalayim is shattered. That place that's supposed to be Yerushalayim Habenuya Ki'ir Shechubra La'Yachdav the city of connection, the city like we mentioned of Yirah Shalem, the city where it's clear and it becomes clear to the whole world on its account that there's only one there's only Echad Yachid U'Meyuchad, that every experience of life can be an experience of Yirah Shalem, can be an experience of an encounter with the singular creator whose spirit pervades all. That city that's meant to be the hub of the the place of connectivity

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1. 0:00It's the after the Shimaia, it's such a privilege to be able to sit with all…
2. 2:36If it's built up. If it's constructed in the way that we know that it ought…
3. 5:51submerged. Within which the fish is immersed. Within which the fish lives every second of its…
4. 8:56that's that's so often lends itself to numbness and externality. So when we want to break…
5. 11:37samid, Shiviti, a vision. And he just writes his number 135633. So, I hope it's okay…
6. 14:50he's there in his place and that he's within me, and I cry out, "Rebbe, Rebbe,…
7. 18:03I can reach out and touch it with my hand metallic cobalt blue light. The same…
8. 20:45truck, unfinished sleep is still on his face, the dawn is cold and he keeps both…
9. 23:55where paradoxically we can feel more than any other month that Hashem is our Abba. That…
10. 27:09there will be great joy when we get out of this galus and the world is…

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