Rabbi Nachman Seltzer – Hacham Baruch Ben-Haim

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[Music] Welcome to Inside Arts Scroll, where the books that we read and the people that write them come to life. It's a pleasure and an honor to welcome all the way from Ra Shemesh, prolific author, Rabbi Nakman Seltzer. Shalom, Rabbi Seltzer. Sh. It's so good to be here with you from Lake to to Rae. It's a short distance, you know, one heart to another heart. Rabbi Seltzer, the book that we're going to be discussing, which is a compelling read. I I literally couldn't put it down. It's fantastic. It's amazing, is a book about Kakam. Rabbi Seltzer, I never heard of Kak Baruk. I'm an Ashkanazi boy in the Ashkanazi world, but once I started reading this book, I feel like I wish I knew him. But here's my question just from the get-go. How does the Ashkanazi rabbi in Ramape Sheish get to write a fat thick book about avari in Brooklyn? How did that come about? So it first of all if they had to choose someone to write a book about a Syrian rabbi from Brooklyn if you go through all my contemporaries I probably for this particular book the right person because I grew up in that area not far from shared from Sheton. I grew up on East 7th OM in Flapush and uh right next to Benf and Rab Ben Shul and really not far from B from Sh. So I myself grew up in

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