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The life and contributions of Rabbi Meir Marcus Lehman, a leader of German Orthodoxy.
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A date which will live in infamy. >> Both of those projects, initiatives, got off the ground because of the girl river. >> politic team members slain in West Germany >> Out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn in the Americans who had come to learn in the cavern. >> I saved 1 million Jewish children who were made to be cut and mutilated. >> Whoever heard such beautiful words? >> It is never >> This is season, but it's end episode about Rabbi after Pesach. It's his 136th yard site if I'm counting correctly. And I want to start off by how I remember him. And I think I was introduced to him in the way that many of our listeners were. And that was as a child in my home we had his books. His um and they were you know they I didn't realize he was Harav Meyer Lehman. In those days I just thought he was Marcus Lehman, a great author of uh was Marcus Lehman, a great author of uh some great literature, Jewish literature, novels, and it was my first exposure to literature period. I read them at a very young age and for sure Jewish literature and I was enraptured. The historical fiction, the historical novels, the historical biographies, biographical novels, it was fantastic. I read every single one of the entire series without exception. Um and I loved it and it was great books
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- 0:05A date which will live in infamy. >> Both of those projects, initiatives, got off the…
- 5:44a a complete transformation, a eventual unification of Germany and the 1848 revolution rocks Germany and…
- 10:48decided to introduce an organ as part of the services. Now, naturally, there was opposition to…
- 15:55it is like it's almost like from Mars, but for a thousand years, perhaps longer, the…
- 21:03government was concerned, he was not recognized as the rabbi until the 1870s, when they changed…
- 26:14Hebrew translation, remember it's written in German, a Der Israelit appeared as an appendix of the…
- 31:27criticizing the regime itself. Now, on November 3rd, 1938, a bunch of Nazis walked into the…
- 36:33That's how they became popular. If we call them Germany, everyone has this aversion. Oh, no,…
- 41:41Raphael Hirsch and Rabbi Lehmann are involved in this initiative. By the way, as far as…
- 46:54Rabbi Yoselman of Rosheim who is a famous court Jew and shtadlan in the 16th century…
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