Purim: The Mind-Boggling Torah Codes Of Rav Michael Dov Weissmandel

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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.

he tried to save as many jews as possible he suffered very terribly during the holocaust he lost his whole family he remarried and i believe he had five children after that but it was something that that plagued him his whole life um he was the founder of the nitro yeshiva which actually in his conception was going to be something quite interesting where he was going to have a farming community where the taomidam would be farmers and learning at the same time that quite didn't that didn't quite work out as he planned but he was known and uh i was not able to confirm this story but vaisnando was one of the all-time great geniuses there's a story about him that he was the one who sort of brought to the forefront the concept of torah codes where by skipping thousands of letters you know equals skippings it's called the lou gehrs you take a letter you skip 10 000 letters you get another he did this in his mind wow without a computer but but not like three letters oh let's see i'm talking about tens of thousands of letters he was able to skip in his mind so i once heard a story and i wasn't able to verify it that he was once reading from the sacred torah and all of a sudden the letters of the safer torah like jumped off the page and

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1. 0:31he tried to save as many jews as possible he suffered very terribly during the holocaust…
2. 2:02filled the room he had an uncanny way of seeing letters and that's how he was…
3. 3:34and i asked then he asked me tal did you ever count how many letters in…
4. 5:12196. you get a raise this is a remiss to esther and the torah how by…
5. 6:46the gemara asks in and the gemara answers which the targum translates fine that's like his…
6. 8:48of esther and mordechai and i told her to her she listened with astonishment she got…
7. 10:19who am i i'm mordechai the esther said what what do you mean moroccan she says…
8. 11:53if you count from the aleph of the word asher after all this is a puzzle…
9. 13:27verify this there's another reminisce to esther but parashat now tim sauda you skip 4037 you…
10. 15:02and the remnants is based on 12 110. if you count from the aleph and the…

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