Chasidus Must Be Lived | Letter #18 of Thirty Letters in Thirty Days 5786

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

We are live. Baruch Hashem. Thank you for being patient with me. >> [sighs] >> And without further ado, let's give some tzedakah. Kano kaba Gush ka up. Okay. Amazing. Our letter tonight. got it. All right, Baruch Hashem Chof Vav Shvat Tav Shin Tet Zayin, Brooklyn, New York. Mar Eliezer Steinman. Steinman. That is a famous name. Shalom u'vracha. Greetings and blessings. Do you know who Eliezer Steinman is? No, probably not because if you're watching this, you're probably an American like me. And you know who American authors are. You know, you know, your Hemingway and Faulkner and that kind of stuff. Faulkner and that kind of stuff. >> [snorts] >> Steinbeck. But you you probably don't know the famous fathers of Israeli literature. Well, neither did I. Admittedly. Eliezer Steinman was one of the big intellectuals, authors um public intellectuals um public intellectuals of the early state of Israel. He's He continues to be culturally important. Um anyone who's well-versed in Israeli literature, you know, modern Hebrew literature, Israeli literature is going to be very, very familiar with that name. Um one of the other one of his cohorts who's also considered one of the greats of modern Hebrew of modern Hebrew literature was Avraham Shlonsky, who is a relative of the Rebbe and there actually letters to him as well. But Steinman is interesting in that he he grew up religious. Not only he grew up religious back in Russia, but he was considered a child prodigy. Something of a young Talmudic genius. And he went off and he

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1. 0:00We are live. Baruch Hashem. Thank you for being patient with me. >> [sighs] >> And…
2. 4:41the Rebbe and asked whether or not he should even respond to Steinman's requests for research…
3. 9:54So let's look at tonight's letter understanding all that background who that I'm to speak to…
4. 14:08So what does that mean? Kli Rishon is when is is the actual hot cup. The…
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6. 23:57Uvehavaya shel miyased hashita mashehu. You have to invest yourself. Get enclothed to the greatest extent…
7. 28:08purity of the emotional connection of simple Jews. Hashem wants the heart. That's what it means.…
8. 32:52It's true I have an agenda. You're right. But it doesn't diminish the truth of what…
9. 37:06opinion, changing how they live. A person's opinion can already change, but they're stuck in their…
10. 41:54that Zalman Schechter when he was uh hello Rabbi at University of Manitoba brought the college…

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