Inside ArtScroll - Season 4 Episode 16: Up Close With the Ribnitzer: Reb Moshe Tzvi Berkowitz

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[Music] Hello everyone and welcome back to Inside Arts Scroll where the books you read and the people who write them come to life. Today I am privileged to be joined by Rabmoi Burkowitz in honor of the release of the brand new biography about the ribba. Thank you for coming out to art school. My I'm welcome for that. It's my pleasure. It's a pleasure to have you here and I know it's a unique to have you here because you knew the ribbon in a very very personal way. Uh and tell me if I'm wrong but I think you knew him in a way that maybe many people didn't know. Yeah. Uh who wrote this book did a magnificent job as he always does painting a picture for us who didn't know the so that we could gain an appreciation for who he was. But today having the to sit with you, we want to get your perspective on who the Reb was, what he meant to you, and maybe certain perspectives that you have of the Reba that other people didn't have. So again, thank you for being here. Um, tell me a little about yourself just as a background before we get into how you got to know the reba. Where you where you from? I come from Bora Park. I grew up in New York, New York City. My father actually was named and he was a town of the green belt and we and also my father took us to many many sadikim before the arrived to America. So I got to know many many Mhm. It was a different time. Now you grew up in Barak. Where did you learn as a I learned I learned in I learned to to um to America to Bora

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2. 4:53he said, since then, since then Shabas 1974 was it?" 1974. And he told me, "You're…
3. 10:17also like we do night he's the king of the whole world he was like giving…
4. 15:14I'm up. I'm waiting for you. Uhhuh. I was wait I'm waiting for you to come.…
5. 20:37with him every day every day we had a sh together you learn yeah me and…
6. 26:23but other what other things about the reb you said that you recorded. Yeah. What what…
7. 31:22I need a minion. I need to have him. So I was thinking okay the reb…
8. 36:54Bone is a ben. Oh, because bone is a ben. A bone is abided. A bone…
9. 41:53feeling not I to wait so I came 3:00 in the afternoon to the reb is…
10. 47:20Yeah. And then one day the what did you do then? It's hard. I got to…

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