We Move Forward! | Rabbi Naftali Reich

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Sometimes we may feel demoralized. We may feel we're fighting a losing battle. Our mind has already been infiltrated by bad thoughts, and they keep popping up. And we're fighting, putting out fires all the time. Let me share with you a story that took place after the Second World War. A Yid, R’ Motel Zitnitsky, a teire Yid, a great Marbitz Torah before the war in Poland, a father of six children. And at the beginning of the war, his wife and his children were killed tragically outside of Treblinka, in the death pits, and he was able to move from one labor camp to another, from one concentration camp to the other. And at the end of the war, a bedraggled survivor, R’ Motel was recuperating in a DP camp in Sweden. It took a long time till he was able to stand on his own two feet. And finally, the day arrived where the Rav, Rabbi Jacobson,

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1. 0:07Sometimes we may feel demoralized. We may feel we're fighting a losing battle. Our mind has…
2. 0:37a father of six children. And at the beginning of the war, his wife and his…
3. 1:10introduced him to a Shidduch. He could start rebuilding life afresh and anew. There was hope,…
4. 1:43And one of his friends found him in a little side-room, next to the dining room,…
5. 2:14And Motel looked up. His face was streaming with tears. What Chuppah? When Chuppah? Where Chuppah?…
6. 2:47His friends said that in that thump they felt the resounding cry of Klal Yisroel, We…
7. 3:20we're moving forward, committed to living clean and pristine, connected to a life of חיים ברצונו.…

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