Pesach and the Holocaust - Connecting To Your Roots

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

it's the first yum Kipper after the war they had just finished in a DP Camp called felink which was a gathering of many of the broken shells those who had survived the terrible catastrophe and were groping to put the shattered pieces of their lives back together again they had just finished reading the Tyra on yum Kipper and they received news that General Eisenhower you may have heard of him he was supreme commander of the Allied Forces and later the 34th president of the United States Eisenhower was going to come to visit this DP camp and they were told they would have to appoint a representative or maybe two Representatives someone to greet Eisenhower and there was going to have to be a speech maybe maybe two speeches someone who could relay the feelings of the survivors to Eisenhower some someone who could vent the storm inside their souls someone who could give over to Eisenhower what the survivors were going through and a fight broke out in the camp who should be appointed to be the representative the shro the observant Jews in the camp said there's only one person who could represent us to Eisenhower and that is none other than the kenberg Reba who although he lost his wife and 11 children he was the one who would go from one broken soul to the next breathing life into their Embers to reignite the spark of Judaism he's the only one who feels our pain he's the only one who could represent us only the kenberg rebba who is known as the father of all the orphans in the camps however the more Progressive Jews the more enlightened Jews they said him Batman we long forgot about that type of Judaism he's an embarrassment us we want someone who could speak to the general a

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1. 0:30it's the first yum Kipper after the war they had just finished in a DP Camp…
2. 3:03Judaism and finally we have to appoint someone to speak after him because we need to…
3. 6:07say Eisenhower goes up to the closenberg rabba he looks him in the eye and he…
4. 8:43there that had God not taken us out of Egypt then we and our children our…
5. 11:49dense it's almost impossible to crack it's much stronger than bone ad thinks to himself who…
6. 14:27would have remained in Egypt a moment longer you know what have happened then the teaching…
7. 17:35thing to ask the question and then to listen the MIT is for your parents and…
8. 20:10old he still alive and my grandfather was a survivor of all the camps aitz D…
9. 23:12bomb the railroad tracks the general of the American Army was General Henning Lindon the American…
10. 25:46Isel you look at the tree I look in the background I see these houses and…

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