FAITH AND FATE: A Destiny Production by Berel Wein (Full Documentary)

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

perhaps no other Century in human existence experienced the terrible and remarkable contrasts of the 20th century the century was heroic and tragic Progressive and reactionary forward-looking and frighteningly regressive A Century of contradiction confusion and massive change but the nature of human beings change but the nature of human beings had not changed and it is that basic nature more than anything else which is the determining Catalyst of human history certainly the history of the 20th century faith and fate will focus on how all these events and occurrences impacted on one specific group of people a people whose survival has defied the ravages and challenges not only of this Century but of the over 40 centuries that have led up to it faith and fate that have led up to it faith and fate the story of the Jewish people in the 20th century episode 1 the dawn of the century 1900 to 1910 Jewish history has been going on for a very long time almost 4,000 years since Abraham the first Jew and over 3,300 years since we stood at Sinai and received the Ten Commandments in the Torah Jewish history is a Continuum and it should be viewed in that it should be viewed in that context to begin to understand any Century of our history we have to see the big picture we have to see ourselves in an overview who are we what is a Jew what is our destiny how and why have we've survived until today to follow the path of the Jews in the 20th century is to watch history's giant pendulum swing back and forth at times it's visible at times it's not we are proud to be called

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1. 0:27perhaps no other Century in human existence experienced the terrible and remarkable contrasts of the 20th…
2. 6:42poverty in 1905 there was a war between Russia and Japan the Russians unexpectedly suffered a…
3. 12:58compared to their impoverished brethren in Eastern Europe especially Russia I'm afraid that younger generation of…
4. 19:11problems by his own efforts and in fact to rely upon God is so to speak…
5. 25:23outlet to develop themselves and that's why the Yeshiva produce socialists and Communists and secular zionists…
6. 31:39which had been living in these countries for generations and had received the vote were wedded…
7. 37:56to refer in a broader sense to a panop Artic community namely Jewish communities of the…
8. 44:06anti-Semitism would disappear the Polish worker would no longer hate the Jewish worker he would only…
9. 50:21try and balance The Best of Both Worlds to become American and to retain one's Jewish…
10. 56:341896 a Kim would eventually become the parent of today's Yeshiva University in 1904 Yeshiva K…

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