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The Making of The Machzor (with Rabbi Moshe Walter)

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SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein

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[music] >> Welcome to another episode of the Seforim Chatter podcast. I'm Nachi Weinstein. Being that I decided a couple years ago when I started the podcast to end the season with the Jewish calendar, this is the end of the season seven, if you can believe that already. And [music] I wanted to thank everyone for their constant and continued support of the podcast and of me. And for those that have sent feedback, yes, suggestions, topic suggestions, to be It was a journal and now we're kind of turning it into a journal. I'm actually working on volume two already, uh which is Kvod HaTorah v'Kevod HaChaim. I edited it together with my good friend Rav Moshe Maiman, uh published through Machon HaYeshayahu. It's 500-plus pages of material, um Hebrew and English. There are letters from various Lithuanian Gedolim printed from manuscript. There are two Drashos of the Sforno edited by Rav Moshe Kravitz. And what a biography of an Italian Rabbi that I edited. There are a variety of a small kuntres of the a variety of a small kuntres of the variety of manuscripts that Rav Moshe Maiman edited as well as letters uh between him and Rav Kopel Schwartz, the Yekev Ephraim. Uh there are different articles there. There's an article in English about Tekias, an article in English which will be the subject of a forthcoming episode about Moroccan Esrogim. There's an article in English about about Piyutim in Ashkenaz defending saying Piyutim. There is a lengthy article about Rav Yaakov Emden's Pri Chadash and a hagaddah there that was found and published here for the first time actually and which was related to his

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  1. 0:02[music] >> Welcome to another episode of the Seforim Chatter podcast. I'm Nachi Weinstein. Being that…
  2. 7:38where did the term machzor as we have it come from and when people use it…
  3. 13:46is dated back to to the Mukubalim. Tashlich again time dependent, we could talk about the…
  4. 19:23the Maggid quotes it. So, another master called the Hadras Kodesh. Um its authorship is unknown,…
  5. 25:29and again we're you know, painting with a broad brush cuz you have all different but…
  6. 31:35extent. You know, piyyutim are mixture I guess of of Tanakh Hebrew, Talmudic language and he…
  7. 37:13again few and far between left, but but the Brewers community they you're not going to…
  8. 43:19favorite areas of study, and and what emerges here is is shocking, surprising, and and and…
  9. 48:56trying to balance, and there were machlokes, and there were wars, literal wars that were taking…
  10. 55:04But we start with and then we start with and then throughout we say the word…

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