Journey to Poland 2024: The 4 Lumimaries Polish Jewry Stands Upon

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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.

a country that is uh soaked in our blood but we're going to begin and uh the learning that we do today is dedicated Burger today is his yard site should be for his whole family for all his descendants for so when we talk about Poland it's hard for us to capture and identify what exactly is Poland because we know that it's a country that has been partitioned so many times throughout history and its first partition was in uh 1772 but we're going to speak about Poland today in its identity before its first partition and before its F first partition Poland included part of Russia Ukraine even Vila and Poland was an Empire and that's how we're going to refer to it as the first well-known T who made it made Poland his residence was Raa in the year 1415 to 1485 but let me Begin by telling you something that the Rama would say something he spoke about on his deathbed you know the Rama observes the fact that as Spanish jewelry was on the decline in the end of the 15th century in 1492 drama observed that that was when Poland was developing as the epicenter of Torah jury Poland was the crowning Jewel of Torah jewry but that only developed as the Spanish community in Spain in Portugal was on the decline and the Rama observed that the ranam always pays the way like Alon is and as one sadic passes even before that another one is being groomed as one Community wains Hashem is already developing

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1. 0:32a country that is uh soaked in our blood but we're going to begin and uh…
2. 1:37Empire and that's how we're going to refer to it as the first well-known T who…
3. 3:10of David Gans who he encouraged to learn astronomy and David Gans was in touch with…
4. 4:41which four countries so Poland constitut and and comprised the arba AR what were they originally…
5. 5:45there were very notable yeshivas the greatest Yas in the world were in Lublin were in…
6. 7:19dispute arose there and he had to leave Prague and in 1492 he became the Riva…
7. 8:59not to get to the conclusion but to sharpen the minds of the students and this…
8. 10:03you hear the difference you see in ashaz it was a matter of knowing the material…
9. 11:34system whether we could adopt that system lots of luck okay now Shalom Shak was a…
10. 13:07such an that you can't figure out this was the opinion of the brother of mar…

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