Preparing for Kabbalas HaTorah - Shiur by Rav Asher Weiss @ Sha'arey Zedek Shul in LA

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

So, it's always exciting when we have a Hakham, a Gadol ba'alei ear coming to our community. Even the Gemara talks about the heightened excitement that a community has. And I was thinking about uh Rav Asher Weiss's uh arrival. Uh may sound funny, but I was sitting at Shalosh Seudos and thinking to myself, "Well, it's about right now uh 7:00 uh 7:00 uh 7:30 in the evening. So, uh the Rav is already on the plane, and God willing, he'll arrive and uh be picked up and uh just as last time when he came off the plane Motzei Shabbos Sunday morning, he came to Shaare Zedek and uh we had a breakfast, and people were very, very inspired by his words. Uh the Rav's reputation precedes him. His name is known throughout the entire world, all over the globe, all over the globe, for his uh great stature in Halakha, prolific author of Sefarim, Piskei Halakha, Teshuvos, all different areas that uh the Torah world uh reads voraciously, enjoys, and uh he's in great demand, and he has a very busy schedule over the next couple of days here in Los Angeles, but we feel so fortunate that uh his but we feel so fortunate that uh his first stop, literally from LAX, is to Shaare Zedek, or the other Shaare Zedek. He's also the Posek for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Yerushalayim, and to share with us some words of His Honor's. Uh we have to thank the Eastern family for arranging this. Uh without uh protexia, we would not be uh on the agenda, per se, to be able to have this special opportunity. But uh we're here and uh

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