The Kedushas Levi and the new English edition (with R' Moyshe (Mitchell) Silk)

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hi everyone welcome to another edition of this Farm chatter podcast on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined by Rosa silk otherwise known as The Honorable Mitchell a silk Esquire former assistant secretary for international markets at the US Department of the treasury and in this context is the editor and translator overseeing the um project of the brand new translation of the three volume kadas of which is translated elucidated published by Art scroll I I think they maybe by Art scroll I I think they maybe published other text but this is like the first big kind of translation and elucidation uh project so uh thank you Raa for joining me I'm I'm really really happy to be here n thanks so much for inviting me so let's start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background um well I I probably cover uh maybe three or four main phases of my life I was born uh into a very very uh life I was born uh into a very very uh homogeneous middle class Jewish Family in Chicago uh both of my parents were uh were first generation my grandparents were all born in Europe um all native yish speakers um proud galit um and uh we left Chicago when I was uh just before Bar Mitzvah we moved down to Florida um I finished up my my high school in Florida um and then started my my

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1. 1:04hi everyone welcome to another edition of this Farm chatter podcast on this episode of the…
2. 6:47opener so my original plan was to start with the kadish and the um I put…
3. 12:58positions at the treasury or elsewhere for some of my skills as it turned out when…
4. 19:09him and his approach is that I believe and maybe it's a little bit presumptuous of…
5. 25:19from the earth and malbim Sprout forth from the earth then there will be no need…
6. 31:34of his knowledge so he he didn't write and he was not uh therefore recording um…
7. 37:22where if you read the the hakama itself of the ran uh toward the very end…
8. 43:30the index in the back it's 591 Pages the second volume um including the source index…
9. 49:39um many months of work uh went down the drain as it were there was a…
10. 55:55were doing heavy copy editing um she pulled together uh a new team um and toward…

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