הרבה למדתי מרבותי — Harav Asher Weiss on the Legacy of His Rebbe

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Asher Weiss’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

And when I say Halberstam, I mean to raise the yard site of the Divrei Yatziv, of mighty Rebbi Testamos. I will never forget that Testamos, which happened to be Erev Shabbos Parshas Chukas, which is which is a Yom Tov. And So Halberstam, I mean to raise the yard site And It was a zchus to be a talmid and to observe one of the greatest gedolim of our era. And a giant in so many different ways. In Gadlus BeTorah, in Talmud Torah, in Ahavas Torah, and Avodas HaTefillah. So the Divrei Chaim was not only the founder of a Chassidic dynasty, and not only one of the great Rebbeim, the Divrei Chaim was unique in the story of Chassidus. Even in his time, so many different Rebbeim used to come to Tzanz. And many Chassidic Rebbeim were known to be gedolei gedolim. Just to mention a few of them. The Lubavitcher Tzemach Tzedek, Shulchan Aruch HaRav, his grandfather, Kiddush HaShem, the Avnei Nezer, who totally changed the derech haLimud in Poland. In the last generation, the Munkaczer Rov, the Minchas Elozor. But the Divrei Chaim, more than any of the above mentioned gedolim, was considered to be the Posek HaDor. Together with Rebbi Yosef Shaul Nathanson and Rebbi Kluger, and all the major questions in his time came to him. And the two volumes of Tshuvas the Chaim are phenomenal. And the Divrei Chaim was an ish ish koiles in chesed. It is said

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2. 0:32And a giant in so many different ways. In Gadlus BeTorah, in Talmud Torah, in Ahavas…
3. 1:04to Tzanz. And many Chassidic Rebbeim were known to be gedolei gedolim. Just to mention a…
4. 1:35But the Divrei Chaim, more than any of the above mentioned gedolim, was considered to be…
5. 2:06that the Divrei Chaim never had a pruta overnight. All the money he had boy biyomai…
6. 3:07a renowned godol ba'Torah seven volumes of shailos u'tshuvos which is which is a which is…
7. 3:38Yaakov. Used to give a pilpul in lomdus in halacha Friday night by the tish. And…
8. 4:09interested in hearing a Pshetl? So, and many times people tried to persuade him, "Why are…
9. 4:39And Friday night, there were three people in the room and he said his Pshetl. One…
10. 5:09Yiddish. There was no one else there, you know, the Rebbe's son and me. And he…

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