Our Future's Past | Rabbi Moshe Taub

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[music] >> Most of you probably know that the first Rebbe in the United States of America was Rebbe Avrahamovich in [music] Buffalo, New York of all places. I discovered this when I became a Rebbe in Buffalo, New York and Chassidim would flock from all over the world [music] to spend some time davening in this newly renovated aisle. The president of my shul, Richard Burger, went on a little bit of a mission to find some [music] historical documentation and he discovered and then photocopied and laminated from what was then called the American Hebrew. It was the Jewish newspaper of the time [music] the Jewish newspaper of the time [music] and there used to be a Buffalo section. And if you go to the Young Israel of Buffalo today, you could find this laminate. And on this page, it discusses this Rebbe. [music] It was written and published in 1911. Talks about how he arrived in Buffalo, the shul, the minyan, the shiurim [music] that he gave and the legacy that he left behind. And if you look at closely at that page, you'll notice [music] advertisements for suits for 35 cents. You also see other entries of news items in and around Buffalo, New York in 1910, [music] 1911. And there was one story that

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1. 0:06[music] >> Most of you probably know that the first Rebbe in the United States of…
2. 0:36the Jewish newspaper of the time [music] and there used to be a Buffalo section. And…
3. 1:061911. And there was one story that caught my eye. November 20th, 1911, Fred Altman living…
4. 1:37>> to some distant future and we will be some distant future's past. You look around…
5. 2:07Torah? Cuz many of us [music] think, "Rabbanim are making it up as they go." Not…

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