Rabbi Berel Wein - Jews in the 19th century

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[Music] again this series concerns itself with personalities of 19th century Europe whose influence and we can say the whose influence and we can say the problems that they faced are here with us almost 200 years later and because of that what they went through can be of some aid to us in our attempts to understand our own current situation last week I spoke about the region of rabbit every soil Freedman was the acidic side at a coin tonight and the acidic side at a coin tonight and the subject is abusive dov'è la vie salivate check the base la vie which is the Lithuanian side of the coin now have a salivate chick had an extremely difficult life a life suffused with disappointments and tragedies about in disappointments and tragedies about in his life and in the events that occur to him we have a picture of what the 1800s looked like in Lithuanian the picture is not the picture that is always portrayed the fantasy picture of Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is going down the hill at a tremendous rate in the nineteenth century both in terms of religious century both in terms of religious observance and in terms of the Jewish community generally and there are many reasons for it as we will see hopefully in the next 60 minutes here in this idea about reversal of a chick and I salivate shake was a direct descendant through his mother of a prime descendant through his mother of a prime vulajin er the Great River hime Rabinowitz the Raavan volusion the Roshi Shiva the man who founded the voloshina yeshiva and the man that was the disciple of the gona Vilna and he was a person that took the initiative to try and save little a knee injury and his initiative was to create this great new

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