250th Anniversary: Standing Up for Torah | Rabbi Moshe Taub

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[music] >> At this time our country is celebrating commemorating the 250th anniversary [music] of this great country with all of its nitzionus, the amazing [music] ability that it gives us the shteig to grow in Torah and kedusha. We have so much achrayus today. I recently published a book on the history of the Yidden of New York, of the Americas, of the New World. And there are so many stories that I wish to share. Most of us think that Torah began with Reb Moshe and Reb Torah began with Reb Moshe and Reb Boruch and Reb Ruderman, and in many ways it did. But there were gedolim here even before [music] them planting the seeds so that Reb Moshe and Reb Boruch could build what they built in this country. But I chose to focus on one individual. In 1654 was when the first group of Yidden arrived in what we know today as New York, what used to be called [music] New Amsterdam. The director general at the time was a man you may have heard of by the name of Peter Stuyvesant, a rabid rabid anti-Semite. He in fact jailed [music] the group of Jews, over 20 of them,

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1. 0:04[music] >> At this time our country is celebrating commemorating the 250th anniversary [music] of this…
2. 0:35Torah began with Reb Moshe and Reb Boruch and Reb Ruderman, and in many ways it…
3. 1:06the group of Jews, over 20 of them, right when they got off the ship. One…
4. 1:36the Lower East Side, needed protection, he created what's called a val straat, a Wall Street.…
5. 2:07And they famously wrote back that in this colony, whatever will be with New York, it…
6. 2:38one Jew from Vilna, a from Yid, who decided it was time to speak out for…
7. 3:10now, in 400 years from now, someone will be recording a story about us. But we…

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