Rav Avrohom & Shimon Lefkowitz — Reb Baruch Mordche Ezrachi

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[music] >> Welcome to Inside Our Scroll, where the books that we read and the people that write them come to life. On today's Inside Our Scroll, we actually don't have the author, but we are extremely honored to have two of Crowley Israel's most beloved brothers, Reb Avraham and Reb Shimon Lefkowitz, Lakewood Flatbush is out of town, right? >> [laughter] >> Um and the book that we've come to discuss, which is a beautiful book, super motivating. You want I told Rabbi Yisrael Besser, who is the very talented author, Yisrael Besser, that after I read a third of the book or quarter of the book, I wanted to just go learn. Like that's the Avodas Hashem that the book was able to foster. So the book is about Reb Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi. I know the Lefkowitz mishpacha was super close to Reb Baruch Mordechai, and we're here to talk a little bit about your personal relationship to Reb Baruch Mordechai, share with us some insights and some stories, and I think this is going to be a snapshot, a window into a small percentage of the book. So if the oilam enjoys this conversation, the book is a hundred times better than whatever this conversation could be. And listen, Reb Baruch Mordechai was a million times better than anything a conversation could be. So let's begin. Um Reb Avraham, we'll start with you. What was the first time in your life that you ever met Reb Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, the the noted Rosh Yeshiva personality Marbitz Torah? So Reb Baruch Mordechai was in our house for I think over 45 years. But we knew him also when we went to Eretz Yisrael for Yom Tov. And we spent Shabbosos and Yom Tov meals

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1. 0:06[music] >> Welcome to Inside Our Scroll, where the books that we read and the people…
2. 2:47he was a new young Rosh Yeshiva who uh uh was just coming on the scene,…
3. 5:24Upon finishing, he was heading over to give a shiur to uh someone else in a…
4. 7:59And it's a big part of his life. Um he had all the backing of the…
5. 10:34secret? You know, definitely our good friends we you know, who used to congregate and Baruch…
6. 13:37you know, but it was for that crowd and that crowd caught on to it and…
7. 16:16dining room table and he sat there for hours and hours. Here's the scene. Reb Baruch…
8. 18:47Address 940 East Kennedy. >> 940 East Kennedy. You walk in the ultra swarum, that table…
9. 21:25know how things go he says you've got to write it you've got to write it.…
10. 24:06you feel it so tangibly it's unbelievable. >> Really. It's unbelievable. That's great. >> And I'm…

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