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

let me begin with a story that was shared by the former chief rabbi of israel chief rabbi of netanyahu then chief rabbi of tel aviv and ashkenazic chief rabbi of israel for many years rabbi yisroel mayor lao and he said you know after communism fell and the gates of the soviet union were opened finally the iron curtain was removed and jews and others can emigrate from and jews and others can emigrate from the former soviet union to whichever country they wished you remember maybe in 1990 there was mass immigration to israel i think close to one million or more of jews and others from russia came to israel and because they were living under the tyranny of the communist regime for 70 years in which there was a strategic and successful attempt to uproot every last vestige of yiddishkeit of judaism of jewish of yiddishkeit of judaism of jewish practice of jewish religion naturally there was a question about many people whether they were jewish or not you know perhaps they intermarried perhaps their you know grandparents were jewish but they were not jewish so the courts the rabbinic courts in israel then were very involved with trying to help determine who is a jew just because you came out of russia and you called yourself a jew did it mean that you were actually a jew and this was obviously important rabbi laos says that one day he was sitting in the best and he was

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2. 6:10every single day in fact by day and by night as we explain in the beginning…
3. 12:45after the war broke out he escaped from the nazis and arrived in the united states…
4. 18:24island if you go through the list we know many of the talmidim of the of…
5. 24:31it's page 216. till now i was doing the end of 215 at the top of…
6. 30:37don't that's a form of dummy malayal my hands are filled with this blood here and…
7. 36:19home in ballistics but uh the other students were there and they come pace and it's…
8. 42:34depressed and melancholy and anxious everybody is upset everybody's they're not happy with each other there's…
9. 48:36reaches its conclusion but this is the crux of the story about the holy bashamtiv and…
10. 55:39if you would have been there you would have never been liberated how is that going…

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