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A Light Against The Dark of Communism: Part Two
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Part Two: Commitment to Judaism Reuven Vershuvsky’s story is one of heroism, courage, faith and resilience in the face of extreme hardship and unrelenting challenges. Hear him describe how he survived behind the Iron Curtain and emerged with his connection to Hashem and His Torah stronger than ever. Watch the rest of this series on oorahspirit.org/inspiration Video Credits: "Web Doc - The iron Curtain": Luciano Boschetti "USSR - Nation in Search of a Soul": Slavic Gospel "We Stood Like Kings - USSR 1926" "Lettres a Mon Frere en Exil / Traile": Kolectiv
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rabbi Rubin ver Schiff ski story is one
of heroism courage faith and resilience
in the face of extreme hardship and
unrelenting challenges hear him describe
how he survived behind the Iron Curtain
and emerged with his connection to
Hashem and his Torah stronger than ever
I started already keeping some mitzvahs
and I was a scary was scared of bliss I
chicken I was already keeping Shabbos
and you may believe him and I didn't
have a place and my friends kept saying
but that's it's already up to up to
having a breeze it took two years two
full years from my starting keeping some
mitzvahs more and more into more and
more mitzvahs till I had a breeze so one
time I decided okay I can't you can't
avoid it you have to do it so I came to
one of my friends and I said okay I'm
ready
the system was every Sunday there were
few young people 2 3 there was a list a
waiting list for prism to be done there
was a doctor a surgeon a very advanced
heart surgeon Mitra Paris initially on
ski who would perform the surgical part
and there was a big tzaddik ribcage
vilensky
the coronal raha who would who led the
whole the whole system he was one of the
rahbaniya he was one of the most beam
in Moscow very old person he was a
Lubavitcher hosted he would he organized
that system and Sundays him and another
older person Raghav Romanian Zuccarello
Braga they had different apartments that
was much more dangerous to give
apartment for making illegal breathing
the danger was much greater than just
the learning learning group or a shear
of a foreigner there was old lady
babushka Charny most of the prizm were
in her apartment she was a big sudeikis
a very tiny very short woman sudeikis
most basem were in in her apartment I I
was directed to come to a certain subway
station and that's it I didn't know
anything I didn't have an address I had
time and subway station I came there and
I was met by and I saw another a from
boy Bo who would lead me who would tell
me he didn't go with me he told me
another subway station where I had to go
was a whole chain I came to one subway
station was approached by a buckle with
beard and was told to go to another
subway station and over there the mice
repeated another boy would come over to
me and and told me to go to to a third
subway station
and I was there there was a boy who
would pick me up from subway station and
lead me to that apartment and then
disappear he didn't go in the apartment
with me
he just led me to apartment and in the
apartment I found a Geisha
Andropov ROM Ganon and the doctor dr.
Leif Lansky babushka Charny was making a
lacquer and comfort for after the breeze
she would serve the bowel breeze with
with lecithin compote and before the
breeze about bow briefs was served with
glass of vodka as a what you call it as
a painkiller
no dr. liu lanzhi also had novocaine the
same thing that dentists use for local
anesthesia it wasn't it wasn't like like
Avril Lavigne no people people 100 years
ago without any anesthesia he used some
novocaine I came into the apartment they
asked me the the we were two of us I met
the second guy who who is the the bow
brace for that day he was from outside
Moscow from a little little town outside
of Moscow Elektra style so they asked us
who is first and I volunteered to be
first and that's it I was it was painful
but what could helped a little and that
that's how I I was him a lot the
breathing for the babies are immortal
Lipschitz was in charge he was the moil
for the babies also was was
very dangerous the Russian saying that
if three people speaking one of them is
definitely a muscle Informer if three
people speaking one of them is a
Informer that was very close to reality
for example we had a little group of
eleven people and we had two known
informers 2 out of 11 that we knew one
of them came and said that he had to
agree to to work for them to cooperate
to inform to write reports every week
and one didn't tell us but we figured
out that he's and later we found for a
fact that he was an informer to known
informers out of 11 people
the show was flooded with informers
probably in every learning group there
was an informer the were the Wolves had
ears and eyes and everything was be
safer naphthalene I enroll the poison
Shamas the hallmark of a Saturn I told
him that was reality in Moscow we knew
it for fact some activities like a
breeze or something you would come out
of the apartment out of the entrance
building entrance and you would see a
flash from building across you would see
a photo flash you were photographed
every person exiting was photographed in
Moscow Shu
I will come there was a official Rosh
Yeshiva rebus royal Schwarz Blunden
Wrangler and he was very knowledgeable
he was a gesture of before
before the war I believe or at least in
in the past he was a gesture of Roche
words but he was a slop bucket down
middle and real slow boat curtailment
because we had official rabbi in Moscow
who was a fake slow but the Talmud and
the fakes make up from slow boat Iike a
Turkish Royal was was stuck a Slovakia
Talmud I I would come to him once and I
said I need coalition measurement I have
horseshoe cuñado but not kosher mesh but
and he would tell me why didn't it go
should measure with cohesion image but
it's not know hook today and be well who
are you took to to learn Russian mish
but what do you know but after that
conversation he told me ok you know what
one o'clock I go for lunch and I lock
the library let's suppose you entered
before I walk it wherever he would make
it quick and make sure nobody sees you
take from the library whatever you could
carry out but make sure that freedom
Arizona doesn't see you
freedom Allison was a micro lady also
sudeikis old woman amico Ada and she was
also a janitor in yeshiva he would say
make sure free the bodies of nough
doesn't see you because she is an
informer ok
and I take I take some for him and his
with his permission
with his implied permission
next time I come to free the police of
now because she has also a key to that
library and she lets me in when she says
I'm cleaning the room five to six sneak
in while I'm cleaning I don't see you
you take volume that you need make sure
rebus row doesn't see you because he is
an informant each one of them to watch
the other so everyone suspected the
other of being Informer being a Muslim