With R' Shimon Szimonowitz discussing Sefer Igros Sofrim: The Letters of the Eiger - Sofer families

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The opening of this shiur, in SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

hi everyone welcome to another edition of the Swarm chatter podcast on this episode of the podcast I'm going to be joined once again by shim shanowitz who's the head of M Alas and we'll be discussing new safer just just edited and published through M uh it's actually a new addition of a saer the letters of the Ager family well probably very familiar to a lot of listeners uh and we'll talk about the sa so thank you shim for joining me once again hi thank you so much for having me and I hi thank you so much for having me and I think it'll be very interesting to talk about the igro it's very multifaceted it has theer and more and a lot of very popular figures I think that the listeners will enjoy our our conversation okay so let's first of all you mentioned the pronunciation so it's igro right it's igro the plural like the letters of cim but the name is actually written with a m alive giml as a matter of fact through the throughout the of fact through the throughout the process of publication many different editors wanted to correct it and take out the Y and I had to kept putting it back inside because the author who the grandson of the and the great grandson of for the some people know him better for his publication of the which was also a similar kind of work was biographical work about and the and the which was his who was his father and

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