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Discusses the life and legacy of Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, founder of the Brisk dynasty.
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[Music] a date which will live in [Music] INF both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the G the 11 OIC team members slain in West Germany the out of the 24 who were killed were out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn C I say one million Jewish children who were made to [Music] be whoever heard such beautiful words it is never too little it is never too late and it is Never two ways to listen to this episode either listen to the episode or have the episode play in your ears it's always fun to explore the history of Jewish aristocracy and there's none more exciting than the salic Dynasty and the basv is generally seen as the founder of this dynasty B of salic the rabbi in brisk at the end of the 19th century although the prominence of the family precedes him by several Generations but precedes him by several Generations but he was the first really famous world renowned solvic world reowned and World respected Torah leader he was also the first one to serve as the rabbi of brisk so he brings together the name solvic with the city of brisk in fact his biography in Hebrew uh is Harish brisk that's the name of the the title of the book the Harish the first one of shelis brisk of the uh the brisk
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- 0:02[Music] a date which will live in [Music] INF both of those projects initiatives got off…
- 3:05brisk about the the B um and the fact that it was it's a great biography…
- 5:41cemetery is partly a parking lot today and there's a pretty uh good tradition regarding the…
- 8:15leich is the antecedants of the slim Dynasty so his mother was and his father was…
- 10:55between and in this way the salic brisker the brisker and all the other ones have…
- 14:33by the Zars wealthy more secular some even assimilated those were the type of communities outside…
- 17:071853 um regarding acceptance policy uh spending the Yeshiva money and of course the salary that…
- 19:47you felt that he was living living the fear of God on his face and his…
- 22:20canonist decrees in 1875 they ended In 1855 so it would be an amazing story that…
- 24:53closing of the vajan yiva and his son R brisker who is the assistant Riva to…
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