Eli Sharabi: The Meaning of Freedom

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

Good evening, everyone. Thank you for being here tonight. It's an incredibly special opportunity. What an honor, what a privilege. Ellie, thank you for being here. It means so much to us, to our community. Thank you, Magali and Massoud, thank you, Rabbi Moscowitz, for putting all of this together. It's an incredibly special night. It's an incredibly special way to get ready and prepare for Pesach together. Pesach, a holiday that we celebrate from slavery to freedom, from darkness to light. In most of my life, we spoke about slavery, certainly Holocaust survivors, what they went through. But in our modern times, contemporary times, in my lifetime, I didn't know people. And now that you represent, you are a symbol for us as somebody who was held hostage, the name of your book, somebody who was enslaved against your will, and who's found this freedom and you're using it to bring light, light to Israel, light to the Jewish people everywhere, light to decent and good people everywhere. And that choice that you've made to do that, it means the absolute world to us. It's an inspiration. We are in awe. We admire and we so deeply, deeply appreciate. So, first and foremost, if nothing else, just thank you for being here tonight. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Like so many others here, as soon as you published your book, I got a copy. I first opened it as most of my reading is on Friday night. And I intended to go to sleep early that

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1. 0:00Good evening, everyone. Thank you for being here tonight. It's an incredibly special opportunity. What an…
2. 5:36And after the army, I knew um I knew my wife, Lianne, that arrived from England…
3. 11:41out of the house. I understood that was the moment that uh they are going to…
4. 17:21we kept saying to ourselves that we are going to die in a few, you know,…
5. 23:27about Israel, about other things as well, about films. They they >> They didn't have orders…
6. 29:30>> We suffered from humiliations on daily basis. It's it's not very easy not to answer…
7. 35:11mother, to my sisters, to my wife. And and we did Kiddush on water cuz we…
8. 41:22So for us you know it's not religious but to be traditional and to know the…
9. 47:00I think we need have to have a lot of respect of um the Holocaust survivor.…
10. 53:06believe that I can I can do it. Um so first of all, I went to…

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