Rabbi Chaim Danzinger: The Rabbi in Rostov, Russia
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
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🗓️ 19 November 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.
In 2008 Rabbi Chaim Danzinger and his wife Kaila, sold all their belongings and moved from Pasadena, California to Rostov-on-Don, Russia with their two young children.
They made this radical move to revive Jewish life in a city that was decimated by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Over the past 14 years their mission has been to care for the material & spiritual needs of Rostov’s 15,000 Jews.
More than they have inspired their community; their community inspires them. Rabbi Chaim shares the remarkable stories he hears - with the world.
They operate a day school, 150 year old historical synagogue, soup kitchen, a national special needs organization, camps and many other vital programs.
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| 0:00.0 | But this woman, 20 minutes after she arrived in Rastaf Viana, she came to Rastaf 20 minutes later, she says, |
| 0:05.4 | Rabbi, I'm alone in this world. My, I was an orphaned at age 7, no children, no family. My entire life has been my apartment. In Russia there's a, you know, the |
| 0:17.6 | gilio is an apartment, that's people live for that, you know, they, people that aren't |
| 0:21.3 | living in a war zone because they have an apartment. |
| 0:24.0 | She says, my whole life is my apartment. |
| 0:26.2 | But I know I'm never going back to Marioo. |
| 0:28.0 | Here are the keys. |
| 0:29.0 | Please take these keys. |
| 0:30.8 | And if you ever have an opportunity of giving this to another Jew or helping someone out with what's in my house. |
| 0:37.0 | Every nail in the wall I bought and I nailed in myself. |
| 0:40.0 | I have good food there that could last for another year. |
| 0:43.4 | Anything that's there please take this and look at this woman who just lost her entire life. |
| 0:48.4 | 70 years she lost everything and what's she thinking about? |
| 0:51.6 | How can I help another person? |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Inspiration from the Nation. |
| 0:56.0 | My name is Yakov Langer, and if you are fascinated by this idea of Schluchum people being sent out, |
| 1:01.0 | Jewish people being sent out to the most remote random areas in the world everywhere |
| 1:05.9 | and anywhere to help the Jewish community there help the community there this |
| 1:10.5 | is an episode for you I sat down with Rabbi Chaim Danzer known as the Rustuff |
| 1:15.5 | Rabbi famous on LinkedIn, famous on social media. He is by far one of the best |
| 1:19.5 | storytellers that I've ever met. He talks about why he moved to Russia, his experiences there, and the |
| 1:26.7 | incredible people he has met, and he shed some tears, I shed some tears. This episode is in memory of Shibendava and Yaku Shlima, |
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