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The Life & Greatness of Rav Meir Chodosh on His Yahrtzeit

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

A discussion on the life and greatness of Rav Meir Chodosh on his yahrtzeit.

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Okay, I'm going to tell you a little bit about Ram Khadesh. Also, his yard site is the 29th of Tesosh who is the primary disciple according to many of the altera. He was born invat I think it's a mistake. It should say tough. When he was 13 years old, he came to Slabatka and he became the primary disciple of the alter of Sabatka. Who knows what is the safer of the alter of Sabatka's? Anybody know the safer of the alterak is the arhat mayor kadus was one of the editors and contributors to the arhat the of the al ofka. Now it is well known the main subject that the alter of sabaka would speak about was godam the greatness of man. However, when the al of sabatka came to Israel, he changed his focus and now he would speak primarily about kadushas is now this this is taking place. Ram khadash uh was born in Bellarus in the city of Farich in Bellarus and it's very interesting. So he's in under the Russian Empire and when Zar Nikolai was deposed and he was not nobody assumed rulership they were basically marauding uh um groups uh ravaging the streets. They were dangerous. They were killing people. They were pillaging. And one time Ram Khadesh as a young person went out into the street and he sees someone's hot on his trail. Someone someone catches him, brings him to the police station and uh Ram Khadesh realized it's all over. So he said vidoy numerous times. They put him up against the firing wall. He felt the gun on his back and they're about to shoot him. And all of a sudden he hears a noise and a window opens up on the top of the ceiling and somebody calls out,

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  9. 13:32why if because once you catch somebody then they become defensive it's like when Uh, somebody…
  10. 15:05so went out he saw him and then he went back. So the Rebi said, "You're…

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