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A Historic Campaign: The Chofetz Chaim Sefer Torah

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The story of the campaign to write a Sefer Torah in memory of the Chofetz Chaim.

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[music] a date which will live in infamy. [music] >> Both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the rea team members [music] slain in West Germany. to get help by the bleed and Americ who [music] were killed were Americans who [music] were killed were Americans who had come to learn presence. I save 1 million Jewish children who were made of the cut. [music] Whoever heard such beautiful words. >> It is never too little. [music] It is never too late. And it is never enough. wants to recommend another Jewish podcast that you'll enjoy. But as it happens, I'd like to recommend the same podcast that he wants to. So, it gives me an opportunity to personally endorse it. This uh podcast is called The Great Sources with Rabbi Schneer Burton. I highly recommend this podcast. It's very interesting. It's clear. It's enjoyable. They're great topics. It's really like an in-depth look at major topics in Jewish philosophy. And if anyone wants Jewish philosophy. And if anyone wants to broaden and deepen your knowledge of these fundamentals and it's engaging, it's very interesting. The last one that Rabbi Burton posted that I just listened to last week is was about Gilgal namas, which is always a cool topic I was interested in. kind of knew zero about and uh Rabbi Burton does a great job. So if you want to um listen to that, it's I recommend it. Um the the great sources

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  1. 0:04[music] a date which will live in infamy. [music] >> Both of those projects initiatives got
  2. 3:38reorganization of the Jewish Jewish Theological Seminary and was from the founders of the United Synagogue.
  3. 6:45the Roman general Apostamus Turnis Rufus probably burned a safer Tyra very terrible event in Jewish
  4. 9:49but but huge areas which were all even VNA we have to understand was uh in
  5. 12:52institutions, other yeshiva, Zionist organizations. The Vishas got into some serious disputes with other groups with
  6. 16:28representing the entire gamut of the Jewish people that would be put somewhere in Rad and
  7. 19:36of money was raised there in Warsaw. They sent down all like I said all the
  8. 22:41registered as a donor for the safer, then blessing will come to your home. You'll be
  9. 25:46down. Um, so they they tried to generate publicity by the to be able to sell
  10. 28:50please still trying to don you know find more donors to buy more letters and they

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