Shavuos: The Saga of the Ger Tzedek of Vilna, Avraham ben Avraham

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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.

Okay, good afternoon everyone. Welcome everyone to the Monday afternoon national perico show, the final show before the Yom Tov of Shavuos. How about we know the Torah? We have spectacular topic for Erev Shavuos 5782. We're going to speak about the saga of the righteous convert of Vilna, Avraham ben Avraham. And you'll see what this uh why this is such an important topic and why it's so inherently connected to and why it's so inherently connected to the Yom Tov of Shavuos. The flight couple of us are tough. If anybody would like to participate in helping publish the upcoming sefer, there are many in the queue in English, safer Avos Yisrael of the Chofetz Chaim with translation, elucidation, stirring essays. If anybody wants to participate in Chinuch Habonim in English for ArtScroll, in Ben Ish Chai translated in English, or in upcoming sefer of Lashon Hakodesh, Dover Yosher of the Eitzah, original insights on the parsha. original insights on the parsha. There are uh many others um in the queue. Please let us know if you'd like to be mishtatef. We have an amazing topic today. We begin with the Gemara in Yevamos. The Gemara in Yevamos says on daf mem ches amud beis, Tanya Reb Chananya ben Akasha ben Gamliel omer, "Mibnei ma geirim bizman hazeh me'unin vi'isurin ba'in aleihem?" Rebbi Chananya, the son of Rabban Gamliel, made an observation, "Why is it that converts nowadays are afflicted

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1. 0:00Okay, good afternoon everyone. Welcome everyone to the Monday afternoon national perico show, the final show…
2. 4:23when Gentile comes to convert, we push them away. We discourage them. We tell them, "What…
3. 8:29And when Avraham ben Avraham, this righteous convert, heard his parents were searching for him he…
4. 12:34Hashem's name after three words. Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh. So, the Jewish people are more beloved than…
5. 17:13not rest until I take my murderer and I bring him to the world to come…
6. 21:16Ger Tzedek. For over 200 years, people would pray at the ashes of the Ger Tzedek.…
7. 25:29kivyachol, Hashem accords himself as if we weaken him. Like it says, "Tzureinu l'hadcha tashi." In…
8. 30:08Like this ruling of the Vilna Gaon that it since it's a mitzvah, we apply zrizos.…
9. 34:18his death b'simcha b'ahava Ad k'dei kach he made a bracha and what the only thing…
10. 38:21Kesav Sofer, that anyone who ultimately converts, it's because when they were offered the Torah on…

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