Divrei Hisoirerus Before Selichos 5776 - We Are Accompanied By Our Ancestors

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

would constantly Regale me with various tales and a mixture of Polish Yiddish English about life in Krakow and I can't say I understood even half the words that he was saying but uh many of his his stories were very moving he had a problem walking he walked with a cane because most of his toes were amputated and he was a short man strong like an ox he used to work in iron he's a beautiful human being and every year he would tell me about Lil Sleepless and Krakow I know exactly what he was saying but he said something to the effect that in Krakow you could feel it in the air Leo you could touch it you could feel it was like the trees were happening you felt it I'm not like tonight and he would say the the grandmothers would cook a special drink a hot drink the people when they would come home to be able to drink when they came home little Sleepless and the truth is there's something very airy about Leo slichres and perhaps we could explain it with an idea that's brought down in the same soifer so I'm sorry for rights and with two Myers silverberg also brings down in his um he brings us down for the morale and he writes that when we dive in slich house we're not alone we're accompanied by generations and generations of sadikim it's a kanyas our ancestors come with us to say Sleek Heights the first night of slichrist so we don't do it by ourselves

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1. 0:31would constantly Regale me with various tales and a mixture of Polish Yiddish English about life…
2. 2:37with uh River Victor Miller had a big slush to have a shy test to him…
3. 4:47you know towards the end of slikheis there's a Fila which is really baffling we say…
4. 7:02look at or what I say or what I think it's not true because Hashem is…
5. 9:07be better I want to improve myself what is the Passat the first step in avoidance…
6. 11:48the most shell of it he saw his father and he realized you know who I…
7. 13:53and I believe that one of the messages of the trilogram the purpose of this is…
8. 16:01about the princess probably on a WhatsApp or something like that and her reputation was ruined…
9. 18:15many years ago the greatest conductor probably in history was the Italian Maestro Arturo tuscanino turo…
10. 20:23only 119 showed up there should have been 15 violinists not 14. and the guy's looking…

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