Bais Rivka girl high school classes 10 & 11 Q&A #2- Stalin, Holocaust & Chabad, History- RC Dalfin

I think I I mean, I'll try it again. What I'm saying and answering your question is You don't have You don't You don't have to and you shouldn't. You have to be your own individual person. But when you have the background and the knowledge and the history, then you know how to attack the situation, but you have to make the attack. We have 2 minutes. I want to just This is more of a not such an important question. I'm just curious as a historian or maybe a little personal. What's the hardest part about researching history? Ask the Very good question and very straightforward answer, finding the truth. Most Most history today is [clears throat] bubbe meises, baloney. A lot of baloney out there. It is very hard. In other words, if I really want to understand what your grandfather went through, I need to either find a person or find a document that was written in 1930 about Chelem and about him being in Chelem to say that that is legitimate. That is truth. What happens as we go through, the things change and people add what we call wings. And that's the hardest thing for me. Another thing that's very hard is to avoid loshon hora, gossip. Uh and I don't mean I I mean, you know, to be sensitive to people because I've written and I write a lot of sensitive things, a lot of sensitive things. And that's why baruch Hashem, I have, you know, a clientele that's looking for that sensitivity. But then at the same time, I'm not going to spill all the beans. Cuz if I do that, some of you might be embarrassed. Some of others might be embarrassed. So how do you How do you balance? How do you balance the two? That's a hard job. It's a very hard job. But we do Yeah, so my answer is to to to make up stories and disregard an issue completely I disagree with. Others don't, but I do. And at the same time, to be sensitive. There's certain words I just was telling to another writer yesterday. Let's say the word perhaps. When you write something you don't know for sure, make sure you use the word perhaps. Another word, presumably. You know what the word presumably means? Right? Because that takes away the I know for sure. No, I don't. So when you write, you need to use the right wording to address sensitive issues. We could go on forever, but we're out of time. Thank you so much for writing this book. >> welcome. >> [applause]