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On this week’s episode of edJEWcation, ChayaLeah and her father go rogue, no Jay in sight but don’t worry, they’ve brought in reinforcements. Their dear friend (and ChayaLeah’s former teacher… who may or may not have been fired for not giving a final), Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie, joins the show to talk about his brand-new book Undaunted and the absolutely wild, cinematic life of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn.
Buckle up. This episode has everything:
The Rebbe’s dramatic escape from the Nazis involving the U.S. government, covert German officers, and a Berlin train station standoff straight out of a movie.
Soviet prisons, secret archives, and midnight research missions including Rabbi Eliezrie literally walking into a Russian prison and saying, “Hi, I’m from America, can I see the cell where the Rebbe was held?”
A behind-the-scenes journey into writing a serious, archival-level biography four years of 6:00am writing sessions, thousands of documents, and trips across Russia, Latvia, and Poland.
The Rebbe’s reinvention superpower from Tsarist Russia to Communist Russia to Poland to America… and somehow becoming the spark that reshaped modern Jewish life.
Why women were absolute powerhouses in the Rebbe’s life from Rebbetzin Rivka to the Frierdiker Rebbe’s wife and daughters… and the 18-year-old girls in Riga casually chazering ma’amarim like it’s no big deal.
The usual family bickering and gentle humiliations that our listeners have come to love including who was the “good kid” in yeshiva (hint: it wasn’t the Rabbi).
It’s history, it’s heart, it’s humor, and it’s a masterclass in how one Rebbe’s courage shaped world Jewry delivered with the classic edJEWcation cocktail of warmth, wit, and total chaos.