My Journey Back Home to Hasidic Judaism - Lipa Schmeltzer | Inspiration for the Nation Episode 4

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

and their heart was like ripped they were crying from the songs and they said lipa you left us and if you bring back your pears and your [ __ ] and everything you you'll be back like regular and i didn't believe it and um thought you were done welcome back to another episode of inspiration for the nation and two years ago when i started interviewing people there was someone on my top five list of i wanna sit down and talk to him about his journey it was none other than lipa schmelzer i was in touch with him he's like come to my house in muncie and at that time it was just very difficult to travel and do interviews but i think i got a little more used to doing interviews and i'm like i will go to the places i need to go to in order to speak to the people i would love to speak to so i had the pleasure of sitting down with lipa lipa is very interesting um in so many ways he's fascinating he's brilliant uh you know you might you might think this episode is going to be about music you think liba schmelzer but it's a lot more than that he's someone with so much soul and he's someone with a journey he he he really wrote rose to stardom very quickly and that's usually not a good recipe for everything in someone's life and it's his life started crumbling uh quickly and he was suffering and a lot of people just didn't know the hardships he was going through whether it was uh you know family life or um monetarily or just his career like he everything was going wrong and he really found himself and and there's this story this idea of

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3. 12:07walking in there and but that's that's uh something that i enjoyed and then kind of…
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5. 24:42right thing i'm not i had a father it was very very um closed in the…
6. 30:37really um maybe a day but i'm saying right yeah yeah but um i i kind…
7. 36:30stupid story with the song with the khasana he was like picking a different song he…
8. 42:27and write the same thing yeshivas singers rich people everybody thinks they they have it right…
9. 48:29is very attached um to our father many reasons he went through the war and and…
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