The Story of the Friediker Rebbe's Rescue from the Nazis (Rabbis on the Run Series)

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

should have a complete and a speedy refuah shlema. There's a fascinating topic we have tonight. We're not going to do it justice. None of the topics we cover do it justice. I can only speak for myself. The other Rabbis are extraordinary, but both because of the time allotment, but more importantly because of my own inadequacy. I'm not a scholar, I'm not an academic, nor do I have the time to research thoroughly, but I did try to call together as much information as possible to be able to communicate at least to be able to be somewhat literate on this issue, on this topic, which is a phenomenal story. It's a more recent story. The last time I spoke it was about the Rosh Rabbeinu Asher and how he ran away in the Middle Ages from France and Germany to Spain. There were no pictures, there were no letters that are extant. There's a lot of history, but it's somewhat unrelatable. It really is a long time ago. This story, in great contrast, is relatable. Not that many all most of us were alive then, but the Friediker Rebbe is not an ancient figure, but somebody who lived relatively in our time. He lived 1880 to 1950. He was the sixth Rebbe of Chabad, also known as the Friederkerab. The Friederkerab in Yiddish means the previous Rebbe. So, we know there was a tradition within Chabad that there would only be seven Rebbes. The seventh represents wholeness, completion. The Rebbe, known as today the Rebbe of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, zatzal, was the Rebbe, the last and final Lubavitcher Rebbe. So, his father-in-law was known as the Friederkerab, the previous Rebbe, Rav Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, also known by his acronym, Rav Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson. Rav Yosef Yitzchak is the

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2. 6:38Chabad. Lubavitch is the name of a city. That's where it was founded. After the Baal…
3. 13:211924, there was a relocation of Chabad. It had moved from Lubavitch, and now it relocates…
4. 18:53and that the likelihood is that he would get arrested and maybe be sentenced to death…
5. 24:59But he went there, he reported he went, and just 8 days after his arrival which…
6. 31:08this askanas, none of this uh Jewish communal leadership work. Now, I don't blame him at…
7. 36:46himself. And he spends significant time, if you listen to Yedu Gabbers um short version of…
8. 43:28decided to use their diplomatic connections and to apply diplomatic pressure and therefore Roosevelt himself backed…
9. 49:02even though he's of Jewish descent. Not only is Major Ernst Bloch, this decorated German army…
10. 55:06so on. Um 1941, the elected officials who had saved him saved his books. And uh…

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