Inside ArtScroll - Season 3 Episode 8: For The Sake of Heaven – Rabbi Meyer Yedid

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[Music] Hello everyone and welcome back to inside art scroll where the books you read and the people who write them come to life. Today I am privileged to be joined by Rabbi Mayor Yadid about whose father Kakam Yam Yidd art scroll has just released a fantastic new biography called for the sake of heaven. Thank you Rabbi Yadid for joining us. There's so much to talk about this book because it encompasses so much. It encompasses history. It talks about your father's fascinating life, his strength of character, how he raised a community. So I guess let's start for our viewers who don't know much about your father's biography. If you could give a brief background into who he was and what he accomplished and then we'll get into really some interesting things that I want to ask you about. Thank you. Thank you for having me here. It's a pleasure to be back here. Um, my father was a shalom was a was a great man who had a history probably different than most rabbis today just because of where he was and the situation that he was in. He was a born in in Kalab in Aleppo, Syria. Uh, at the time that he was born, the community was pretty full. a lot of people, thousands and thousands of families. But it was at a time also when people started to move out, leaving to the Western Hemisphere. Um, and he was was raised as a regular Jewish Syrian boy and at a young age he connected to Torah learning and he stayed in the bet midrash and there were different influences in his life that

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1. 0:00[Music] Hello everyone and welcome back to inside art scroll where the books you read and…
2. 2:35he's a very uh strongminded person and he dedicated himself to Torah learning. Now I'm telling…
3. 5:41never got involved never never said a word to us was only answering questions if he's…
4. 8:16they had the basic they had you know Talmud and they had and they had the…
5. 11:25didn't have any communication really with other cities it wasn't and it was insulated and there…
6. 14:01shana there was no benaz darim there was no such vacation time and he was learning…
7. 17:07by the mere yeshiva you that was down the block from where he learned every day.…
8. 19:41happiness is. They don't really know what success is. I mean, what does my father know?…
9. 22:47know when you you go from being the chief rabbi where nothing happens in the city…
10. 25:21the rich person, because then people would realize that he meant business, you know, he he…

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