Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Tazria-Metzora (Video 177)

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

A good and holy day, Shabbat, laynu let oyva. Tonight is the second day of Rosh Chodesh Iyar, the yahrzeit of Rabbi Nachman of Mendel of Moshe of Vitebsk, his yahrzeit. And he stood with rare and remarkable distinction amongst the talmidim of the Mezritcher Maggid. Uh the Maggid was nifter in 1772 and buried in the city of Annopol. and buried in the city of Annopol. Um Reb Mendele, for the next 5 years, he became because the Baal Hatanya was standing there by the petirah, and he told him he told his talmid, "This one should become the leader and and follow after me." Um and if this one doesn't want it, then this one at the end, it was Reb Mendele of Vitebsk. And for 5 years he tried to make shalom And for 5 years he tried to make shalom between the misnagdim and the chassidim. And in 1777, when he saw that he was not going to accomplish his goal, he went with his friend Reb Avraham Kalisker and they moved to Eretz Yisrael. The Baal Hatanya caught up to them in the city of Kamenetz on their way to Israel, and Reb Mendele told the Baal Hatanya to turn around and go back turn around and go back because he was needed in the community in Russia and not to come with them. He didn't question his rebbe. He considered them as rebbe. You see from the letters that he wrote, he addressed Reb Mendele Moireh v'Rabbi in every single letter, and he went back to Russia. Reb Mendele came to Eretz Yisrael and

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