Rav Asher Weiss: Reflections on My Mother’s 4th Yahrtzeit

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

So as I said at the beginning of this year, today was the oret of my late mother and I feel at a big just to speak about my mother on my father and that entire generation of Holocaust survivors. So my mother and father were both born in the same little in Hungary in Salish. They didn't really know each other before the war. They married and fed invald in Germany under the opaces of the klesenberi after the war and that was in a duration which we cannot even understand they're godless. So going through gehenn my mother lost her grandparents her parents the very same day they arrived in oitz and she and one brother out of five were sent to life. Three other siblings, parents, grandparents were immediately sent to the gas chambers and to the crematorium. She passed away four years ago and she left more than 500 descendants, all of them. As I mentioned before, she was an amazing woman, extremely intelligent. She loved Tyra. And in I explained the expression and in this is a refrain again and again. And I explained is not something he once said. Each of these great said hundreds of and teachings and mus was his moto. This was his this was the way he lived. This was what his life symbolized reflected that is hu. So I think of all the and all the thoughts I heard from my mother probably the most significant and she said this many times why is it before we say the before is because the very first in And interpretation is you need to give away your life. loving. One of the interpretations is so when things go great, you thank when tragedy strikes. Believe that loves you and thank him. So how could one achieve this level of

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