Rav Asher Weiss @ Yeshivas Chafetz Chaim Queens

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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.

All these wonderful young What brought us all together? What brought all these good people to come from far away from Israel and to some at an advanced age make this tremendous effort for weeks. What brought us all together is the desire, the concern for the seed the future of in Israel. Let me tell you a story I've told many times in recent years. A story about my late father and my great rabbi. Both were survivors. My father lost the very first day he arrived in Auschwitz. Yom Aleph Shavuot 1944 He arrived with his entire family. And that very first day his grandparents, his parents, five out of eight siblings were sent directly to the gas chambers and the crematoria. My Rebbe the heilige Rebbe Zechuso L'Brocha arrived one day later. Second day Shavuos. That very same day his Rebbetzin and 10 out of 11 children were sent directly to the gas chambers and the crematoria. Benoi Yachid Cholo his oldest child whose name was Leibele he was Bubbe's Einikel the apple of his eye and he died a week after the war was over from typhus. My father heard that the great Rebbe arrived at his one barracks next to where my father was staying. My father sneaked out in the middle of the night into the next building and that was putting your life in jeopardy because the Nazis in the watchtowers if they would see any Jew roaming the premises in the middle of the night they would shoot to kill. And in the morning my father approached the Rebbe. And he said to him it would mean so much to me to get to know the Rebbe to be close to the Rebbe. And the Rebbe frowned down on him and he

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2. 1:19What brought us all together is the desire, the concern for the seed the future of…
3. 2:25to the gas chambers and the crematoria. My Rebbe the heilige Rebbe Zechuso L'Brocha arrived one…
4. 3:56said, the mindset that I've self in said the shelf in. If you think it's going…
5. 4:5712 months since the war was over till the war was over. And they talked and…
6. 6:28what was the first wish of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai. Ten le-Yavneh ve-chachameha. And some of…
7. 7:30And the Torah is the oxygen in our lungs. And we have no future without Yavneh…
8. 8:33And Jewish history teaches us, wherever there were Yeshivas, Yiddishkeit flourished and blossomed and developed. Where…
9. 10:06We'll get there. I'll open up this mattress for you. Why do I need to run…
10. 11:09only we giving you hisuk, but to see the love, the dedication, the devotion of K'lal…

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