Journey To Jerusalem: Old City; The Ohr Hachaim Shul & the Machlokes Ohr Hachaim & R Chaim Kanievsky

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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.

family of gedoilim, mekubalim, baalei mofsim. The Or HaChaim HaKadosh was a kadosh from very very young. His wife was a great melamedes. And the kabbalah is his wife was mis'atef betallis u'vetfillin and was loimed Torah be'hislavos. So not stam loimed Torah, but she was loimed Torah be'hislavos. The Or HaChaim HaKadosh comes to Yerushalayim in Elul 1742. He establishes a yeshiva. He passes away on the 15th day of Tammuz 1743, also young at 47 years old. Or HaChaim HaKadosh says that his first Yom Kippur in Yerushalayim he opened up the aron for Kol Nidre. He says like this, "V'ra'isi ha'arah gedolah b'sha'as Kol Nidre u'v'sha'as p'sichas ha'eichal mamash hoyo b'einai k'psichas sha'arei Gan Eden." So here the Or HaChaim HaKadosh is in the shul. He opens up the aron

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1. 0:31family of gedoilim, mekubalim, baalei mofsim. The Or HaChaim HaKadosh was a kadosh from very very…
2. 1:01He establishes a yeshiva. He passes away on the 15th day of Tammuz 1743, also young…
3. 1:32kodesh and he has mamash like when Yaakov Avinu came to bring the matanos to Yitzchak…
4. 2:02cave And that we have a letter from one of the Tamidei Or Hachaim Hakadosh that…
5. 2:33Rav Chaim says, "You're not allowed to." They said, "Why? Because the Steipler holds you can't…
6. 3:04by Rav Moshe Goldstein in the Sefer Masa'ot Yerushalayim. And he said the following story. Somebody…
7. 3:34Hakadosh. Then the another wind comes and he can't hold onto yarmulke cuz he has to…

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