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Rabbi Moshe Baruch Kaufman discusses the life and teachings of Rav Lazer Portnoy.
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Welcome to Small Talk by Seforim Chatter. I'm Nachi Weinstein. On this episode of Small Talk, I'm going to be joined by Reb Moshe Ber Kaufman, who's the Rav in Maple Shade, Toms River. Also a Rosh Chabura in BMG, is a mechaber of seforim including the sefer Arye Gyeng, which Reb Moshe Ber was on the was on the podcast previously. And this time we'll be discussing the newly published sefer Or L'Eizer, which was put out l'zecher Portnoy of the Mir, and so the connection Reb Moshe Ber's connection is that he's a grandson-in-law of Reb L'Eizer Portnoy. So we'll be discussing this sefer. So thank you Reb Moshe Ber for joining me once again. Okay, so let's start off. What can you tell the listeners about this sefer Or L'Eizer? >> Okay, so last year was the 50th yahrtzeit of my wife's zayde, Reb L'Eizer Portnoy. And I had always read things that he was involved in at so of the Mir Yeshiva, but really didn't know anything about him. And I asked those in the family, and they also said the same thing, but no one really knew too much about him. His name doesn't come up, and the fact that he was nifter 50 years ago, at that time, all the from the mishpacha, the the eineklach they never even met him, they never knew who he was. So I first sort started as a project for the family, just to hear the Mir story and his involvement. I also had found always like the divrei Torahs, the sichron of a person, and he had wrote shticklech Torah in quite a few koivetz'im, with the Brisker lomdus,
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