The Last Words - R. Eliyahu Maksumov - TorahAnytime.com

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

There was a non-Jewish prince or nobleman from the Polish royal family, Potocki. And don't ask me how this happened, but somehow Potocki got involved with a rabbi and the rabbi started teaching him and he started to love the Jewish people and he started to love the religion. And he came to the realization that the Jewish religion is the real religion. And he decided to leave everything behind to become a Jew. And he changed his name to Abraham and they called him Abraham ben Abraham. You can look him up. Abraham ben Abraham the Ger. He was a convert, he converted to Judaism. His family when they found out that he converted to Judaism they were very upset, they were very angered by this. And they warned him. They said, "You better come back and you you better renounce your Judaism, you better return to us." And he was very stubborn and he displayed his unquestionable faith and he said, "I'm not going to turn my back against Judaism, I'm going to remain a Jew and I'm going to be standing as a proud Jew." And they said, "We're warning you that if you don't come back to Christianity, we're going to torture you." And he didn't care. And they came to Times Square, they went

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1. 0:00There was a non-Jewish prince or nobleman from the Polish royal family, Potocki. And don't ask…
2. 0:33He was a convert, he converted to Judaism. His family when they found out that he…
3. 1:03and they prepared a big fire. And they said, "We're going to throw you inside the…
4. 1:35They took him and they tied him up and they threw him inside the fire. But…
5. 2:06words? There was no one who understood him like you did. What did he mean when…
6. 3:07and all the king's men came and they had red carpet treatment and they put the…
7. 3:40people so greatly for all our mesirat nefesh that we had throughout history. And we're going…
8. 4:12And they're going to come to Abraham and Abraham the gear while he's in Gan Eden…
9. 4:42to us." It should say, "All the good that he has done to them." But no,…
10. 5:13reward that's waiting for us in the next world." And so, Abraham and Abraham was looking…

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