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Chasidic Rebbe of the Holocaust: The Bluzhov Rebbe

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questions of where god was during the shaah transforming their anguish into deep faith in hashem and healing. So today being that it was just the yard site of the Bluja Verba um we will be discussing him and um his story during the Holocaust and how his stories have become classics in the Orthodox community and their retelling of the Holocaust in the ensuing decades. I do want to make a reminder. First of all, I've been getting some amazing all, I've been getting some amazing feedback um submissions about the upcoming 500th episode of Jewish History Sound Bites. Um thank you all for sending it in. Really, it's heartwarming and some creative ones as well and just in general, it's great to hear from everyone. But if you still want to participate in the listener feedback segment um on the 500th episode, then send me your analysis and feedback about Jewish history sound bites podcast um for the upcoming 500th episode. So the for the upcoming 500th episode. So the Yafelak book referred to in the dedication is one of the most famous Holocaust books um ever and for sure within the um Orthodox community worldwide. Hidic tales of the Holocaust by Dr. Yafa Elak a prominent Holocaust survivor, researcher, historian, educator and everything else. She's an amazing woman and she conducted many many many many interviews for her book and the main ones it seems to be was

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  1. 0:32questions of where god was during the shaah transforming their anguish into deep faith in hashem…
  2. 6:20staring and you can see into Jewish history and see into his suffering of the Holocaust…
  3. 13:05stories of him. I mean there's it's a lot. It's him and his his wife. Also,…
  4. 19:15and then I want to elaborate I want to do an analysis of the impact that…
  5. 25:36his brothers and all their kids and all their families completely wiped out. Not a single…
  6. 31:48victims usually were not there for longer than an hour and a half you went got…
  7. 37:23Verbis Shapi. He was standing with a friend, a freethinker, which means a secular Jew, from…
  8. 43:34How could you say it when hundreds of dead Jewish bodies are literally lying within the…
  9. 49:45able to buy two capsules of cyanide at $1,000 a piece. one for you and one…
  10. 55:55worth talking about. The Blujerba, another story I like to say over the Blujerba talks about…

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