Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: When Bad Things Happen to Good People

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Okay everybody, thank you for coming. And for some reason we have a smaller than usual, but they appreciate all the people that uh did come. I guess people are getting ready for Yom Tov, Rosh Hashanah. I understand. And uh today's sheer is dedicated uh a refuah shleimah to Breya bat Chava and Chaim Aryeh ben Rivka, and may they have a refuah shleimah betoch shaar cholei Yisrael. And in addition, an aliyat neshama to Tzvi ben Avraham Halevi and Reuven ben Yosef Halevi Halevi and Reuven ben Yosef Halevi uh as well as a very generous anonymous donor that we are very very grateful for. Uh in addition, um a a friend of mine, Sippy Hill, who actually lives in Gibraltar, of all of all places, uh has made a special dedication in memory of the Jewish community of Krosno, in Poland, where her family comes from. Uh this actually has a special meaning to me because Krosno is also the uh town from which my father, aleihu hashalom, uh came. And uh it was a very very vibrant Jewish community. Uh as you go vibrant Jewish community. Uh as you go through the memorial as I go through the memorial books, I see many many names that were relatives. Most of them I didn't know because they were killed in the Holocaust. Uh but a lot of my family uh does come from there. And uh it had very chashuve talmidei chachamim. It had many many Jews who may have been simple Jews, but were very very devout and God-fearing. And uh like anything else, uh the tragedy of the Holocaust continues to reverberate

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