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Rav Rottenberg Describes the Chanuka Knifing Attack to BRS Mevakshim Fly-In
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Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, the Kossoner Rebbe of Monsey, heads Congregation Netzach Yisroel. He survived an attack at his home during Hanukkah in which an attacker used a machete to attack dozens of people gathered in the rabbi’s home.
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so what the channel collect takes place
it's about from the beginning to end
i would say 40 50 minutes
the zinger
so everybody is
the house is full there were about a
hundred and forty in a fashion in the
house
when i finished
that thursday that gaba head
had said
to me
we used to continue in malawi malka he
said listen it's such a big oil
it's too tough to handle
and then turn it into malawi market
maybe
we go
everything in mind and everything
i say by
that's only what you can figure out who
knows what else
when we finished i turn around to people
give hanukki guilt everybody goes by and
it starts getting loose
but not only starts getting since we
made malava malke there so the oil
starts packing out to go to the lava
mall
so first of all everybody's face is
faced already there not only here
that's one table but the time he came in
was mamish a minute after i ended a
minute by the time only when everybody
turned around
if he would have found everybody facing
here he was just would have gone like he
did with his
swinging back and forth
nobody even would know until you turn
back
like this and all the bad people saw at
least they started getting so the women
and the children they ran out from the
back things could
he walked in the front door
and people the whole room was packed the
back was packed and the hall is packed
he came in
and he just picked his knife up he
reached touched
ten people
he touched
now
seven out of the ten seven
let's say like this let's say like this
five out of the ten
were touched
the beckish
the shirt
the straw
a hat flew off off i mean nothing more
than that
the other five
uh got hit in the skull hashem
another one had stitches i'm a kitten
that was here with his husling
getting married monday night
was here
was
reckless was untouched
and
the doctor said come back tomorrow
morning
he was there he was handling mr shabbas
come back tomorrow come back monday i'll
see to minimize and by monday by the
hasanah he had only under his yarmulke a
bandage and all that nobody could see we
all went to the kasana we were there it
was a i can imagine
and
one of the so many reasons
i then decided
we have to take back charge and
we went we couldn't have eaten malava
malka had we ever
made it here we couldn't come in back to
the house
there was blood the roof the wall the
chairs the floors
it looked like
like varsity after a bombing
and this the burnishable marriage
thursday we should make malaga malka
there so we can get back everybody there
they were injured there were injured
people and
everybody got back to themselves
and even
who
was
he was he was attacked twice
he was attacked twice between the first
time and the second time this
jose vallee clicked the person who threw
the table at him and got his license
plate beg then come out let me take you
out you said i have no choice to go he
said i'll help you he said no and the
val he saw that you can't let this the
situation in azoy so he picked up then
that little table that's still around we
made it into a whole chanukah table with
the
to hold them annoyed on it we use it in
shul every year probably is a picture of
it advice
and he took that table and threw it at
the school just to catch his attention
to take him away from everybody else and
he did and he started running after him
and he ran out so that's how he got him
to leave did you ever think about
canceling the malaga no no
how come the news picked up on that the
rubber followed through even though
there was a trap i did what was the
rebels thinking
you tell me what was i thinking then
you can't let people
become even more discouraged and let
them down you have to
get the situation
my own son
was hit
my own son
and he was in hospitalized his trauma
was cut through and touched his head his
core had stitches alice but
no i i thought
that the right thing to do is to get the
people together back and just continue
and be mispowered for the
hope for the best we can't just letting
everything go and cancelled only breaks
people more
right or wrong what do you think yeah
so i couldn't think why people think
it's not right i i i don't understand
what you're describing to
yeah
i mean you have no idea what it looked
like there's hundreds of police and all
types of vehicles all type there was
hundreds of people
saying nissan vanifluis
i can tell you stories that we know
already that we have collected already
there is mr
tesla
mr tesla lives down the block in one
house off the main road
he wasn't here chavez he came home
and put his baggage down and he came
with his wife he said he wanted to come
say again
he wasn't home
it was a quarter to ten
his wife told him
you left your head home you can't walk
into hammer collected that ever without
a hat
even though i don't throw out but it's
very nice she has that understanding
that it's respectful
so he said oh i'll run back and get my
hat he ran back gets his hat
how long does it take he leaves
not it doesn't take a minute to drive
goes back takes his hat he comes down
and he's right and the police stops him
at his corner he says
can't go no no i'm only going down there
you're not going going down there no
down the block i'm going to the rabbi
you're not going nowhere what do you
mean and he sees more and more and more
and here's the silence is it something
is going on
said the police tell them
not
he
should have cut off and he was here
a minute before it happened
and the rabona told him to leave
we had here a 74 year old man who comes
for 21 years with his wife his wife is
an elderly woman i don't have to tell
you and so is he
but his wife is the one who used to come
every single from flatbush they moved
the last couple of years to muncie and
came
they never ever
his wife said
i'm not up to i
he says you
you're always the one who schlepped me
i i know but i'm not
i okay i just
okay i'll go alone
he came
now if his wife is here let me tell you
how it used to go his wife used to say i
get to work for the rabbits and that
used to take at least 10-15 minutes like
a woman and here
and he waited for her
and he would have been here his wife
wasn't here we ended he was from the
first five people to go out to malava
malki the camry show him walking and the
guy behind him walking in
74 year old man just like russell newman
it couldn't have couldn't have been any
better
would have been the same and so many of
those what i said me behind
oh and his head besides for the fact who
ever told hormone that aches righteous
can't sleep
he didn't text him
how did he know that he can't sleep but
the bonus little maneuver you should
come in this split second one is
everything happens
hashem we're here to say the story we
lift to tell the story the buddhism is
is