Titanic: Part 1 - Historical Background

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

but in order to do so we need to get to we need to get some of the background uh history and details so today's share which i hope to get helped to get through no no today's share today's show i hope to get through the source materials that we have um we have quite a bit so we want to try to accomplish that today and that is the titanic there's a hasidis yid by the name of ishiel goldhaber who wrote a very scholarly goldhaber who wrote a very scholarly work on the titanic actually the the safer has two parts to it and the second part is about the titanic the uh the part about the titanic he calls mishpataka tahim rabbah your judgment is the great deep so um many halachic chalice arose because of this terrible disaster but in order to understand uh the the ramifications we have to get the background and the history okay history okay so he gives us a little introduction over here he says one of the most spoken about disasters i'm getting in the 20th century a disaster that has no connection to war was the sinking of the titanic that happened about a hundred years ago but you know by now it's already 105 years or so uh he says in april 1912 tougher cheyenne bay's the titanic so sunk how many passengers were there two how many passengers were there two thousand two hundred and eight passengers after the his nagsha what does his nag should mean we're gonna test out your modern hebrew today after it collided with the caracon an iceberg madam giant believe her atlante in the heart of the atlantic ocean titanic the single titanic the largest ship in the world in its time left a indelible oppression and shocked

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