Lviv

But my young wife agrees with me on how important it is, and so she works independently as a cook, so that I can take all of the money that I earn from being a malamed, and use it only for mitzvot.

So I work as a malamed, a teacher, in the village of Yanev, not far from my hometown, and half of what I earn goes to support our family, and with the other half, every year, I go to Lemberg and buy the most beautiful etrog.

But in order to save the cost of traveling, I always go by foot.

So this year, during the Aseret Yom Kippur, the 10 days of repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, I walk to Lemberg as usual, with 50 gulden in my purse for the most beautiful etrog.

And when I passed through a forest and stopped at one of the wayside inns, it was time for mincha, and I davened in the corner.

In the middle of my davening, I heard crying and groaning a man that was in real anguish.

All my things was about Messi, how she stay alone at home.

Family and friends tried to rescue Messi, but the terrified cat escaped her carrier in Lviv.

The news devastated Irina, who urged her mother to post internet photos in a desperate search from their hotel room in Warsaw.

Irina forced me to post in internet that we lost Messi.

Borders have shifted back and forth over the centuries.

Lviv, for example, now in Ukraine, was, before the Second World War, the Polish city of Lwów.

During the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it had been Lemberg.

In World War II, it was captured by the Soviets, then the Nazis, then the Soviets again, who pushed Poland's frontiers westwards.

Borders have shifted back and forth over the centuries.

Lviv, for example, now in Ukraine, was, before the Second World War, the Polish city of Lwów.

During the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it had been Lemberg.

In World War II, it was captured by the Soviets, then the Nazis, then the Soviets again, who pushed Poland's frontiers westwards.

Stalin would sit down, and he'd have a piece of paper, and he'd be like, all right, in Kazakhstan, you need to arrest 50,000 people, or whatever the number is, in St. Petersburg or Leningrad, you need to arrest 10,000.

In Lviv, you need to arrest this many.

And it was the job of the... nkvd or the kgb whatever it was at the time to be like all right this is how many people we have to find and his last of the uh secret police heads barrier is most known for his quote uh show me the man i'll show you the crime and they prided themselves on getting confessions out of people who were perfectly innocent and the argument is well if

In all spheres of learning, too, brisk activity is shown by Ukrainian people about the second half of the 19th century.

The Ukrainian people had long ago to boast of scientific research by eminent scholars, written in their national language, and is now able to refer to a bulky scientific literature as well as to a selection of eminent learned works of the two learned societies of Lemberg and Kiev, organized on the model of European academies of science.

The learned society at Kiev has recently been given the rank of an academy of science.

By all these works, the Ukrainian language has proved that, like any other civilized language, it is qualified for the discussion and solution of the most complicated problems of science and learning.

The number of Ukrainian elementary schools decreased more and more under the administration of the Polish Educational Council of the province.

On the other hand, Polish teachers were systematically appointed in Ukrainian elementary schools to force the Ukrainian population to learn the Polish language and to increase the number of an alphabets in Ukrainian schools.

Notorious was the struggle of the Ukrainian students for the foundation of an independent university at Lemberg, which, in spite of the great ability of the academic youths and of several scholars of Ukrainian nationality, met with an open veto of the Polish lords and has remained an unrealized demand to the present day.

Notwithstanding the abolition of serfdom, the Ukrainian peasant was treated as a serf by the Polish squire and was not allowed to enjoy any human rights until the agrarian strikes taught the Polish landowners that they were not allowed to treat the peasants as part of the inventory.

He was in Poland.

He was born in Galicia, and he was the Rav of Lvov from 1857.

He was born in 1810, and then he became the Rav of Lvov of Lemberg in 1857. um and is an important well-known rough in this case he had heard of a sock of a ruling by another very interesting gravel i once thought about uh writing a phd dissertation on and then didn't because i think i think because just to say something uh a little embarrassing by myself i think i i think i was gonna have to learn polish and i didn't want to have to learn polish and therefore i looked for another topic for my dissertation, but Rav Tzvi Hirsch Gaius, the Maharetz Gaius, had passed and had ruled in a certain situation in a way that this reveals to Shulnot Zon disagreed.

The Maharetz Gaius was the Rav of a place called Zolkva, and there was a certain man in the town who unmarried a woman, and unfortunately she had gone insane.

Now, it's hard to know from one generation to the next, from one time to the next, what we consider insanity, but in this situation, She was so insane, she would walk around naked in public, naked and barefoot in the streets, and she would get wounded, and she wouldn't care, and she would have relationship with men and not care, meaning she was, you know, just promiscuous, and she couldn't speak, she couldn't have a full conversation, she couldn't speak in a way that was sensible.