YBD Trip - Germany & Prague Documentary

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

[Music] [Applause] I just want to take a few moments on the way to the B the old Cemetery of Frankfurt that we're going to be daving in MZ Hashem in specifically four places that isem we're going to be able to go and uh see it's unclear exactly where the gim and sikim are because by the time of the war there was a lot of Destruction so there are eyewitnesses that were able to tell uh based on memory where things were we'll speak about it before there so on the way to the B I just want to mention a couple of ideas and uh a little bit of just a little bit of a background to ger specifically Ash's history you know it's it's an amazing thing we we really should be in awe and trepidation when we when we talk about the gim and sikim of previous generations and these people these were people of giants their huge m nees their self their self sacrifice their devotion their these people were giants in t beginning already from theim of from those commentaries that we benefit all the time and it gives us a little bit of an inkling of what it means to learn toah specifically through hardship constant fear of their lives in terrible Financial situations these people devoted themselves to learning to not just to learn to but also to master Torah and it was they who defined and established much of the basis for Min hogen of ashkenas that was very much incorporated into what uh that asazi y do and there's no way really to measure their contribution other than the fact that the Torah that we have Thousand Years Later rests on the shoulders of these Rim now their were later raim whose lives were really connected

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10. 58:09population here increased tremendously between 1522 1541 the Jewish population of Prague almost doubled many of…

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