Rabbi Berel Wein Speaks about Rabbi Simcha Bunim Part 2

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Berel Wein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

See him tell that they tried to fail him because of the fact that he was Jewish etc. And he uh he told them the famous medish about Yoseph that how did Yoseph become uh parro's assistant viceroy because parro was supposed to know 70 languages and he didn't and Yoseph who did know 70 languages uh discovered that very easily. So in effect he had blackmailed parro and he said to him listen I won't parro and he said to him listen I won't tell them what I know just you know let's let's just strike a deal here. So he said to the examiners of it and I'll write it up. You're right. You won't give me the license but I'll get you all fired because you don't know what you're doing. They gave him the license and uh be he didn't want to be beholden all of his life. He he didn't want to be beholden to anyone. So he didn't want to beholden to anyone. So he didn't want to be beholden to the Burksons either because he felt, you know, even though he's doing this wonderful job for them and he's running the the lumber business and I imagine also he didn't want to stay in Donsig for the rest of his life and he had children to raise. So he came back to Poland and he was a licensed pharmacist and he opened this pharmacy in Chis and he was an enormously successful

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