Journey to Belarus: The Historic Meeting & Difference of Opinion of the Chofetz Chaim & the Malbim

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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.

Okay friends, we just had the of a lifetime to be at the kev of raenu. You saw mayor in the bay. What a wondous opportunity. What a zus that we had to be in this very special place. I want to tell you about a historic meeting that took place in 1874 between the and one of the all-time great theim revered lib he admired his amazing intellect his godless would say who could Never imagine a head like the malam. The mishabura quotes the of the malam very regularly. The malam wrote and the quotes. He was especially fond of the malam's commentary to fact the writes that we are not on the level to understand. You know sometimes the will say this what do you mean aliy why shouldn't you read it that way the malbum was said only a god of like the malbum could understand how kazal made so now in 1874 the zar made a law that obligated any man from 21 years old to be conscripted in the army for 6 years from age 21 to age 27. The problem was that most Jews got married at either 18 years old or maybe as latest up to 20 years old. And now would it make sense for a young boy to get married at 18 or 20 when they're going to be taken away to the army for 6 years? So they changed

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1. 0:01Okay friends, we just had the of a lifetime to be at the kev of raenu.…
2. 0:32revered lib he admired his amazing intellect his godless would say who could Never imagine a…
3. 1:02especially fond of the malam's commentary to fact the writes that we are not on the…
4. 1:331874 the zar made a law that obligated any man from 21 years old to be…
5. 2:04the policy. They delayed getting married. Most young men now got married at 27 when their…
6. 3:05he was married he was so to speak tied down to a wife and that would…
7. 3:38that from now on Jews have to go back to the traditional age of marriage 2018…
8. 4:09called Kunan and he published it there. While there he had a historic meeting with the…
9. 4:43However the had a historic meeting with the Malbim and the Malbum as reported by Rabman…
10. 5:15the in the end the malam became very ill in Kiev and came to visit him…

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