Episide 103 - The Rabbi Historian: A Conversation with R. Berel Wein

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

this is re Koretsky and welcome to Jews you should know introducing the broader community to interesting and inspiring Jewish men and women making a difference in our world some are already famous some not yet so but each is a Jew you should know we are back with another fabulous episode of Jews you should know this week what a treat I had the incredible pleasure and really I had the incredible pleasure and really honored speaking with Rabbi Beryl wine for those who follow the history of the American rabbinate or were fans of great Jewish corridors of the 20th and 21st centuries and that buy wine is a pivotal actor in both of those conversations and more than that he is also incredibly innovative and pioneering scholar in the fields of Jewish history creative Jewish multimedia or he's produced films and multimedia or he's produced films and all kinds of groundbreaking methods for communicating Jewish content and his love of both Judaism and Jewish history to people all over the world that my wine is given probably thousands of history lectures and I often joke to people when I'm describing this conversation that rabbi wine has had like five different lives when it comes to his professional career he was a to his professional career he was a lawyer and a rabbi in Chicago and a rabbi in Miami then ran the Orthodox Union then became a rabbi and head of a yeshiva founder of a yeshiva in Muncie New York and ultimately moved to Israel the rabbi of the shul they're almost a really a legendary career and almost larger than life I had the privilege of speaking through have my wine a couple of months ago around Thanksgiving time he was

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2. 5:49intended to live out the rest of his life in the Land of Israel however when…
3. 11:03and my father left in 1929 two reasons one reason was he here danger of the…
4. 16:53[Music] practicality I got married and that was at a time when nobody realized somebody would…
5. 22:13bosom friend Rea Rodman Willy Rodman who was a classmate of mine in the yeshiva and…
6. 28:07Lam Whittle doctor we are young I mean I saw everybody and that made a great…
7. 33:18to affect orthodoxy to help it so I accepted that position I was also offered a…
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9. 44:11Shari Dora my name's Jerry Torah was the name that might say they gave the issues…
10. 49:24person's faith perspective those are you know the disagreements and it all happens are ready don't…

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