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The 1837 Tzfas Earthquake

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The impact of the 1837 earthquake on the city of Tzfas and the Jewish community.

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Yehud Jewish history sound bites. And this is a re-release of an old episode um originally recorded a year or two ago. I don't remember exactly about the earthquake in Svas. Um and I know we are in the middle of a very popular series about the Castner train and trial. already started talking about the trial last week and um judging from the large last week and um judging from the large volume of feedback um everyone is waiting for the next episode so am I by the way but I was traveling this past week and unfortunately was unable to invest the proper time to uh for the next installment so everyone will have to wait till next week um I'm sorry it will be coming next week we will go back to our castner series we're going continue with the trial and um we'll finish up the uh the that series uh finish up the uh the that series uh soon. So, this week we're going to have a re-release, a replay of an old episode. By the way, I'm getting great feedback on the Castner series. Tons of it. Overall, very positive. Um some critical, which is also great. I'm enjoying all the feedback. Some of the critical ones are actually quite entertaining, especially when respondents get so emotionally worked up in their feedback. And you know it's generally Hungarians after all that uh sometimes they contradict themselves in the course of a few sentences which

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  1. 0:00Yehud Jewish history sound bites. And this is a re-release of an old episode um originally
  2. 6:12Trebinka? Were any worse Jews saved by the act of suicide of Chariov? And the answer
  3. 11:23was just uh thinking about it and thought it might be relevant to hear it again.
  4. 17:05Jewish world. And just one of many was the rebuilding ofas after the devastating destruction of
  5. 23:20natural grow growth and immigration to the Jewish community in the early 1800s uh three communities
  6. 28:26It's higher up on a mountain. So it's compared to the rest of the country it
  7. 33:36was relatively not hit although had a a um a I guess we could call it
  8. 39:16after Moses Montur and Lady Sir Moses and Lady Judith Montafury the great Jewish philanthropist of
  9. 44:27This is a clear sign from heaven. G the gully will be destroyed. Is destroyed. It's
  10. 49:38he was preparing for it and he saw this earthquake as with all's devastation and destruction

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