(From the archive) We Traveled to Kazakhstan

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

It's unbelievable. >> [music] >> Myself and a bunch of my friends from our school at Anshe Lubavitch in Crown Heights made the trip to [music] Almaty, Kazakhstan, the place where the Rebbe's father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, lived out [music] his final years on this world after being exiled to far, far away Kazakhstan for the high crimes far away Kazakhstan for the high crimes of [music] spreading Yiddishkeit in a Torah-true way. My friends and I gathered at the airport [music] in JFK to prepare ourselves to make our [music] flight from New York all the way to Istanbul, Turkey. >> [music] >> So, here we are in the bazaar, Istanbul, [music] Turkey, just taking it easy and relaxing on our way on our journey. [music] I'm bringing with [music] Rabbi Chitrik about the history of Istanbul, history of Turkey, the Jewish history. Very, very fascinating place to live, that's for sure. We arrive into [music] Almaty. It is where the Rebbe's father is buried. The Rebbe's father lived his the last 4 years of his life in this world [music] years of his life in this world [music] in Almaty. Welcome to Kazakhstan. It's cold out here. You have to understand that when the Rebbe's father came to Almaty, it was a huge upgrade, a huge, huge, huge upgrade to where he was in Chile. Chile was mud huts and wild pigs and really, really not uh settled. When he came to Kazakh he came to Almaty it was a big upgrade.

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1. 0:00It's unbelievable. >> [music] >> Myself and a bunch of my friends from our school at…
2. 0:31far away Kazakhstan for the high crimes of [music] spreading Yiddishkeit in a Torah-true way. My…
3. 1:04>> So, here we are in the bazaar, Istanbul, [music] Turkey, just taking it easy and…
4. 1:35years of his life in this world [music] in Almaty. Welcome to Kazakhstan. It's cold out…
5. 2:06it was a big upgrade. Yeah. It was freezing. [music] But we walked out and we…
6. 2:36hand that was coming [music] down from the Soviet government. The Rebbe's father was arrested with…
7. 3:07Lubavitch traveled to Almaty to spend Shabbos near the Rebbe's father [music] to farbreng and to…
8. 3:40>> [music] >> And all the things that the that [music] the Rebbe, you talked fought…
9. 4:10[music] >> And nevertheless here we are. The Rebbe Yitzchak lived his life with total mesiras…
10. 4:40level, to that next push, which is of course the coming of Mashiach himself.…

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