Torah Connections Tisha B'Av Program 5786

What’s said in this shiur

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

and he takes her to Yad Vashem and she witnesses the atrocities and horrific scenes of what happened to a people for no reason other than the fact that they were Jewish. And she sees the pictures and she sees the yellow stars that were put on the clothing of children younger than her. And the father watches his daughter how she's being impacted by the experience. And now they come to the end of the museum and they come to the guest book at the and they come to the guest book at the exit and the guest book is for any of the visitors to sign in and to leave whatever comments they may have. And the father watches as the young girl pulls the pen out of his pocket and she writes her name and she writes her address and her and her childlike scroll where they asked for comments, the 11-year-old girl wrote these words, "Why didn't somebody do something? "Why didn't somebody do something? Why didn't somebody do something?" It was inconceivable even to a young girl of 11 years old that the whole world should stand by idly and nobody should speak up and do something about what was happening to the Jews in Europe. This story was recently said over by ambassador Mike Huckabee. The United States ambassador to the state of Israel, former governor of the state of Israel, former governor of the state of Arkansas. And the little girl was his little girl, was his daughter. And he was the father. The girl Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She now occupies a job Mike Huckabee used to have. She is the current governor of the state of Arkansas. The first woman governor of Arkansas. And when Mike Huckabee is asked, "Are you proud of your daughter?" He says, "Yes, I'm proud that she's the

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