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Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer speaking at Chachmei Lublin

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A discussion on the life of Rabbi Meir Shapiro at Chachmei Lublin.

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now if you notice the size of the building and the size of the basement is out of proportion that's exactly when w starts to stay on the bus is that he had a different vision of the yeshiva that we all benefit from until today he until the television mirror yeshiva [Music] [Music] ahead of his time and a lot of things would surprise us that was ahead of his time to be taken for granted today but he was the first person to think of a lot of these things and he saw university campuses at this time he said the yoshida has to have that full experience [Music] a dining room downstairs a dining room downstairs which is definitely the first in history it even had the custom name of the garbage truck you built a model of a mesa a real full-size model and so it's a real nice [Applause] [Music] this whole this whole package deal he was very very very much a visionary [Music] this [Music] he was um he never had children in his wife or it was very rewarding he never had children unfortunately passed away at a very young age he was 46 years old in fact he won life insurance policy he was a young healthy man with no children that didn't make man with no children that didn't make sense that he should have brought a [Music] and they figured that the best way for them to advertise themselves was to get a famous polish jewish figure to buy a large policy so they came to america bureau and where shapiro did was he did he was an insurance center he did almost a reverse insurance policy where

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