The Beauty of a Hunch | Rabbi Elazar Meisels

What’s said in this shiur

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

In contemporary culture, hunchbacks don't get much love. In novels and in theater, a hunchback was a symbol of depravity, evil, a figure to be pitied, at best. A straight spine suggests strength of character. No spine at all suggests cowardice. But a crooked spine means you're crooked, you're depraved. But as with most things Hollywood and contemporary culture related, it's based on... foolishness, superficiality. Not necessarily the case. Everybody has heard of the legendary R’ Yaakov Yosef Herman, the subject of the bestseller All for the Boss. A man who lived his entire life for Avodas and Kirvas Elokim. Less known is R’ Chaim Yerucham Fishel Dov, aka Philip Kaufman, who married R’ Herman's daughter, Freida, who tragically passed away in the prime of her life, leaving him with children to raise,

Jump to a moment

1. 0:06In contemporary culture, hunchbacks don't get much love. In novels and in theater, a hunchback was…
2. 0:36it's based on... foolishness, superficiality. Not necessarily the case. Everybody has heard of the legendary R’…
3. 1:06a difficult feat. He succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. His son was the legendary R’ Shmuel…
4. 1:37And R’ Shmuel and his sister, Ruthie, although they didn't have the funds, they scraped together…
5. 2:07didn't really want to talk about it. But R’ Shmuel Kaufman was not a man easily…
6. 2:38My friends, I don't know how you raise a child like R’ Shmuel Kaufman, a Mechanech…

Every second of this shiur plays inside FilteredTube — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.