#5 - The Life & Times of the Tzemach Tzedek

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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.

really didn't take children to laich because that was not the kind of environment it was I mean we're so used to theb giving incredible attention to Children this is new this is the Reb perhaps the previous Reb butab it was a very serious environment it was a very adult environment and children really did not go fromus traveled I I suspect from reading the story story that his father was a person of means he was not a poor man and he was able to afford to take his son along so he was an exception it was very unusual for children to be taken to laich and of course one of the the immediate grabs of the story is that A's mother's mother knew that her husband was very capable of forgetting about their son and as they're preparing for the trip she keeps on reminding her husband not to forget about him and reminding the little child to make sure not to get lost and it happens a couple of times over the trip that someone has to find him and bring him back to his father just a little detail in the story but he describes the journey to laich they had a wagon but nobody sat on the wagon they just put belongings on the wag they walked for weeks for days and they sang they they stopped they said they kept on walking he was a kid so his father put him on the wagon in fact at the very beginning of the trip his father actually left him behind his mother ran after the wagon to put him on the wagon he shouldn't be forgotten and he describes going towards

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2. 6:30serious I also told you the story that there was actually a consideration of making him…
3. 13:06refer to the so I wanted to mention because he was very he was very he…
4. 19:33I should have 12 tribes you but I forgot to ask for long life I don't…
5. 26:00I make every effort now of course as the typical person what does that mean to…
6. 32:44devastating blow didn't want people to see him anymore or people should come to him he…
7. 39:14that lived 77 years was 5 years younger thaned and passed away about a year and…
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9. 52:32you from now one you're a put on your hat and say and dutifully put on…
10. 59:02later it's over 50 years later and there was no succession after that once the Three…

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