Rabbi Shais Taub & Eli Marcus—SoulSongs: Slavita Brothers Niggun

[Music] this next Miglin comes from Sloviter which is a town and it's famous for printing press the famous la vita printing press there's a whole backstory actually how the permit was originally procured it was a miracle from the Alta rabbit a story for another time but the printing press was run originally was founded by Arab Moshe Shapiro's who was the reverse Lavetta and who was the son of the Pincus Koretz er who was a disciple of the baal shem tov and mr. maggot right now this Rebbe Misha then had two sons who took over the printing press from him and the the Shapiro brothers grabbed moolah from ABBA and their ping koso pinnacles was named for his zeta at PIMCO score itza now we know there was a little bit of a controversy at those times regarding the printing press in Vilna and the printing press in Slavia and however it happened there was some type of a libel they were convicted and they were sentenced to a terrible inhuman punishment a brutal punishment which is known as running the gauntlet you have soldiers who rows of soldiers on either side and they're holding weapons clubs and sticks and each of the brothers would have to go in between these rows of soldiers and they were braced into some type of a contraption like a harness or something so they couldn't bend over they couldn't cover themselves they're basically just held still and the harness would be pulled through at a slow pace so they couldn't they couldn't speed it up they would just have to absorb these blows from from the soldiers so they brought the first brother through the older brother up in cuffs and it was there and then back and then one more time against three times through the gauntlet and after he was finished he was unconscious and they they hospitalized him and then the next brother came through or the younger brother of Shmuel Avram ABBA so as they were saying they're being brought with this contraption there are people on either side of them sort of like pulling this harness or this brace and at one point they sensed they couldn't pull him any further Dubois Baba had dug in his heels and he stopped himself he put on the brakes he wouldn't let them pull him any further why not his yarmulke fell off of his head and obviously in Jewish law to save a life I mean everything is pushed off except for three cardinal sins but on the level of piety and spiritual sensitivity of Dubois from ABBA he wouldn't walk one step without his head covered so he he wouldn't move until finally somebody picked up the yarmulke and they put it back on his head and then he allowed himself to continue to be brought through the gauntlet at any rate as they were enduring this unthinkable brutality they were able mentally emotionally took two to endure by transporting themselves I guess into a sort of like a trance-like state by singing this neat one [Music] yeah No Oh yeah I know Oh [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] you know [Music] um [Music] ha [Music] Oh [Music]