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200 Years of Chabad History in Hebron with Avraham Fried

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Avraham Fried

A journey through the history of Chabad in Hebron, from the Mitteler Rebbe to the Rebbe.

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come let's take a Subway to the rebis property didn't you just leave the rebis property that's a good question let me tell you a story please stand clear at the edge of the platform fast in your seat belt the next stop is [Music] Hein that was fast from Kingston Station to KRON station [Music] [Music] the story ofab andon began about 200 years ago encouraged his to go to he wrote about the importance of buying land in the holy city ofon and even commissioned the building of aabad synagogue here later the community expanded significantly when the tamed sent his own family members to headed by the mb's daughter rebit the granddaughter of the alter re this house is called bet Romano in re this house is called bet Romano in 1876 Romano a rich grain Merchant from Istanbul built a large house on a piece of land he purchased outside the Jewish quarter in this house lived the chief Rabbi ofon the and established a Yesa here after the death of The house's Builder Romano his sons put the house up for sale and local Arabs offered a large sum tried to keep the house but was unable to obtain the sum then RAB shim hman a resident of wrote a letter to hman a resident of wrote a letter to the pleading with him for help D became personally invested in the project and managed to save bet Romano in 1911 after the purchase re founded the Tas emis yiva the ottoman Turks confiscated the house and his connected property and evicted the kabad Yesa in its place they set up a police station which was later taken over by the British in 1929 the

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  1. 0:02come let's take a Subway to the rebis property didn't you just leave the rebis property
  2. 0:34[Music] the story ofab andon began about 200 years ago encouraged his to go to he
  3. 1:06re this house is called bet Romano in 1876 Romano a rich grain Merchant from Istanbul
  4. 1:37hman a resident of wrote a letter to the pleading with him for help D became
  5. 2:091929 the re visited and viewed with deep pain the confiscated kabat property but was not
  6. 2:39deported from Kon in 1948 the jordanians occupied bet romano and used it as an Arab
  7. 3:10the miracle of the 1967 6 day war yusim and kevron were liberated the effort to
  8. 3:42bet Romano was finally reclaimed in and was established but the majority of the property was
  9. 4:13opportunity to be part of History a property fought for by the St the reab by
  10. 4:43the this is an incredibly rare opportunity to build ER is to rebuild Kon and to

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