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A Torah shiur on the importance of personal spiritual mentors and role models.
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[music] >> The heilige saintly Reb Aaron of Belz zechutsadik >> [music] >> l'vruchah was a malach elokim. He lived k'mei shamayim al ha'aretz, heavenly [music] days down here on Mother Earth. Before the war, he had a young chossid by the name of Zalman Hoffman. He was a bochur and he was so connected to his rebbe that during the darkest days of the war, he'd lost his family [music] and he was going from one concentration and he was going from one concentration camp to the other, but the image of his rebbe sustained him. And as soon as the war was over and he miraculously survived, he made his way to Eretz Yisrael to be reunited with his beloved rebbe. At one time, he said, he was overwhelmed with challenges. [music] Starting a new life in the fledgling state, it was very, very difficult. And he went [music] to his rebbe to pour out his heart with all his problems. And he arrived in Tel Aviv and he came to the
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- 0:05[music] >> The heilige saintly Reb Aaron of Belz zechutsadik >> [music] >> l'vruchah was a…
- 0:36and he was going from one concentration camp to the other, but the image of his…
- 1:07arrived in Tel Aviv and he came to the rebbe's door and the gabai, Reb Sholom…
- 1:37[music] rebbe. The rebbe says, "Mein Zalman!" Everything was meaningless. He was in Gan Eden itself.…
- 2:07"Menachem, Man Itzik, Man Yankel." >> [music] >> That's all we want, nothing more. And every…
- 2:38background the resonance, [music] "Menachem, Man Itzik, Man Yankel, Man Moishe, Man Mottel." If we could…
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