April 30, 2025
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“:::: DEBRIS First comes pain, Mommy whispered, then comes knowledge.”
“The Rabbi’s only son, Yussel, sold insurance, mostly life. He made a fortune because everyone in the Hasidishe world knew that his father, the Rabbi, and his grandfather of blessed memory, and his grandfather’s grandfather of blessed memory, all of them stretching back unbroken in a golden chain from Far Rockaway to Horodenka, to Braslow, Chernobyl, Lublin, Tiberias, Jerusalem, to David, to Adam, all of them in the Fetner family, made prophecy.”