The 3 Weeks: The Great Controversy of the Chasam Sofer and R' Yosef Irgaz

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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.

And uh this brings us to the uh important topic of beards. Should a Jew have a beard? Is a beard a uh Jewish look? Is it a is it an obligation? Is it a preference? Is it a minhug? Or is it discretionary? Or is it really not that important at all? Well, one of the fiercest disputes in Jewish history was the raging between and of course we know that not only was it a mus between those two great Israel but there were many ra involved on both sides but one thing they both agreed on was they both agreed on the greatness of the individual we're going to speak about tonight and that is the raami pano raman raenu A mazar of pano. Somebody even was afraid. Rabbi, you know, you speak about the pano so much he may even be surpassing the in terms of your personal popularity. So I just want to assure you that the appears on the mak tonight at least five times. So I don't think uh you know it might be a tight race but certainly you know they're all very beloved. Okay. So Ravenish wrote a safer on Mishbad called which is a very complex safer and in theopley raisit wrote a of it called base and raisit discusses a very interesting uh topic something maybe you'll remember back to your yeshiva days if you if you ever had the privilege to learn the uh the garra talks about the following dilemma. A person gets married and he realizes uh the woman is not a basula you know she's not as advertised. So now the problem is if she was mis while she was married to you in other words after then you're not to live with her. So the garra says if somebody married a woman

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1. 0:30And uh this brings us to the uh important topic of beards. Should a Jew have…
2. 5:40the author of Maris you know what he is quoting the he's a you know what…
3. 10:58and ceremony, but he didn't actually live in it. Very unusual. He had one room like…
4. 16:05She paid 20 golden coins to Rab the to convince the of the Ramak to give…
5. 21:24so therefore explains let me tell you something where did it come from that nowadays so…
6. 26:34You hear this in Salonica. They made the Rabonim got together to to try to enforce.…
7. 31:38warriors against and he was very on guard against false cababalists and very on guard about…
8. 36:52then the says even this concept that you should have a beard you should not have…
9. 41:59the guy you sure you saw or somebody told it to you and you convinced yourself…
10. 47:11if you would have seen the chas of says that is not reliable and that the…

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