Q&A: Jewish Life, Beards & Nationhood - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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should ask first question I guess. >> Yeah. >> Um does one have to have roine briskers mahala in order to know how to learn? >> Uh that's a very interesting question. Uh a brisker would obviously was obviously say yes. Uh but the truth is there were many there were and maybe less so today many different mahalim to this. You know when Rafim Salvichek who created the deron that is very very common in the lit yeshivas and Rafaim was an absolute guy and there's no question about it an amazingly deep person although it's interesting that they say his was even greater than his uh and der conquered the liti yeshiva worlds and all liti yeshivas today meaning non-asidic yeshivas today are based in one way or the other on the brisker mahalik although you have different madregas you have brisk brisk and then non- brrisisk brisk but all of it is kind of brisker but the emmes says rafim's derk generated a lot of controversy at the time there were kakama gdim who criticized derk as being uh too academic or too chemical or not emphasizing enough yadas although rafim himself said anyone that says a pill without knowing all of shaz is a pill of But was very very critical. Rafim started his career before he was the RV of brisk. Rafim married the nitiv's granddaughter. Rafaim's father-in-law another guy Shapiro who married the nitiv's daughter and Rafaim was the co- the junior Roshiva injin for the last 12 years of till the Russian government closed it down. The nits was the senior rashiva. was the younger rasha and the emmesis the nitiv was totally different than and there were who only went to and not the and vice versa people only went to the nitiv and not to so you could count on on you know on many hands and many you know many

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