Journey to Latvia: Dvinsk - The Approach of the Commentary Meshech Chochma

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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.

Everyone, welcome to Latvia. When was the last time you were able to say that you were in Latvia? It's been a while, huh? I want to thank our guide, Edward. Round of applause for Edward. Okay. And we also want to thank the bus driver, Ray Raymond, who's navigating the treacherous road in the snow. You see, it's not it's not it wasn't easy for Avi to arrange snow in Latvia. It's an extra feature. It makes it much more authentic. You know, if you would come to Latvia and it would be like 75° and sunny, you would think you're you're in San Diego. You know, now you know it's actually Latvia. It's the middle of May and it's snowing. You know, you can't make that up. When was the last time anything like that happened? Okay, so we're going to speak a little bit about Rome Simka of Dinsk. You know, when we get to the cabra, we'll speak about his history, but I want to give you a little bit of a flavor for the approach altora of Rome. Maybe we'll do a clip on raor simka's attitude to the formation of the state of Israel and uh anyway, Ramor Simha was born in 1843. He lived 83 years to 1926. He was the rv of the Ashkanaza community of Dinsk. The ragv was the RV of the community of Dinsk. And Rome Simka has a unique approach to in a way similar to the parasim where he would apply principles to explain the narrative of the usually

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1. 0:02Everyone, welcome to Latvia. When was the last time you were able to say that you…
2. 1:10state of Israel and uh anyway, Ramor Simha was born in 1843. He lived 83 years…
3. 2:16Okay. The Rambl establishes the following rule. There was once a debate between Yeria Hanavi and…
4. 3:18happen. If it doesn't happen, that proves he's avi says something bad will happen, it doesn't…
5. 4:20But if he hears it from Hashem it does not have to happen. If the Almighty…
6. 5:20Rambam in at least four places I'm going to give you just a little flavor for…
7. 6:26remmonstrates with S. Hashem says, Why did Sorah laugh? Why did Sorah laugh? And what was…
8. 7:30household you ever you hear that phenomenon it's it's pretty common you know the daughter knows…
9. 8:34Abraham laughing. But the question is, S why did S laugh heard it from ani so…
10. 9:47tells you know that he's a great guy. I really want to reward him. What does…

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