429 - Rabbi Berel Wein speaking about the World of Rashi at the HaNassi Synagogue in Jerusalem

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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.

uh yeah the influence of the holy land is being felt because we have cooler nights already i hope it will continue tonight's subject i think is a very important one not just historically but because of the fact that it can help jews understand the times that we live in now i think that that's the main function of the history function of the history scoriamo did not intend for us to know facts or dates or places or events which is the pretty usual and sterile stuff of history and the way history is taught the way scholars teach history i don't mean to denigrate teach history i don't mean to denigrate scholars but the nature of historians is that they are not really relevant to what the world is during their lifetime i uh i'm a civil war buff i'm very interested in the united states civil war i've read tens and tons of books on the subject has nothing to do with tolerance but it gives me drushes on chavez but it gives me drushes on chavez which is worth something it's worth a great deal to a rabbah and i have visited many civil war battlefields in the united states worse than that i subjected my family to visiting many civil war battlefields and they are not interested in the american civil war so uh once in a moment of madness i attended a lecture attended a lecture by one of the leading civil war historians and he discussed the many many important events the ideas of lincoln and others in the american civil war and then his conclusion was he says of course everything that i've told you is something that happened 130 years ago and really cannot help us in our present situation

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1. 0:09uh yeah the influence of the holy land is being felt because we have cooler nights…
2. 6:20hashem god controls him and god controls him that he cannot say he gave up on…
3. 12:30one minute it's this way and the next minute it's just the other way that's true…
4. 18:40there's a great cathedral there and that was the seat of the holy roman empire now…
5. 24:54the fundamentalists in 1095 took over in egypt it would be uh you know gaddafi the…
6. 31:01ages to fight the muslims to come here in the middle of the summer without air…
7. 37:11all of the extra points belong to the church and the church can sell them and…
8. 43:29of terrible terrible insecurity and instability and the attitude of jews change if you want to…
9. 49:44the ramban will come to yerushalayim and he'll say i only found six jews in yerushalayim…
10. 56:03changed either saw the kingdom jordan was the first one to send flowers so the jews…

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