Our community will be identified with life. Rabbi Shalom Dov Ber Stambler about his activity

INTERVIEWEE: Shalom Dov Ber Stambler
INTERVIEWEE’S BIOGRAPHY AND DETAILED THEMES DEVELOPMENT: 8th August 2016
INTERVIEWER: Krzysztof Bielawski
OPERATOR: Przemysław Jaczewski
RECORDING DATE: 8th August 2016
RECORDING COPYRIGHT: POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews
THE MOST IMPORTANT THEMES:
00:00:25 - Autobiography of the interviewee, his ancestors.
00:07:36 - Der Shpoler Zejde (Rebbe Yehuda Arie Leib of Shpola).
00:13:0 - Decision to pursue rabbinical studies, the differences between the role of a rabbi in the past and today.
00:19:33 - Learning in a yeshiva.
00:23:20 - Recieving the rabbinical smicha.
00:25:34 - Lubavitcher Rebbe's attitude towards activities in Poland.
00:31:30 - The arrival of the interviewee in Poland.
00:34:22 - Interviewee's opinion of Poland and Poles.
00:35:24 - Establishment of the Chabad Lubavitch Centre in Warsaw.
00:37:19 - Welcoming of the interviewee by the Jewish community in Poland, the beginnings of work in Poland, the activities of Chabad Lubavitch.
00:41:40 - Book “Economy of Judaism”.
00:42:5512 - Interviewee's reflections on his mission and plans for further activities in Poland, the role of the family in the rabbi's life.
00:44:14 - The issue of safety in Poland.
00:45:10 - Learning the Polish language, the importance of language skills in the work of a rabbi.
00:45:56 - The role of the rabbi taking into account the specificity of the Jewish community in Poland, comparison with the role of the priest.
00:51:36 - The role of the family in the life of a rabbi, the interviewee's family.
00:54:56 - The evolution of the role of the rabbi over the centuries.
00:56:53 - The influence of Rabbi Moshe Isserles Remu on Chassidic life.
00:58:10 - Interviewee's plans for the future.
00:59:10 - Good and difficult aspects of rabbi’s work.
01:00:24 - Stories of people discovering their Jewish origin.
01:07:43 - Filip Białowicz, former Sobibór prisoner.
01:10:45 - Yitzhak Grinberg and Avi Kirschboim, people associated with the Chabad Lubavitch Centre in Warsaw, who died in recent years.
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