Rabbi Berel Wein - Ben Gurion

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[Music] tonight's lecture concerns itself with Davi ben-gurion first prime minister to State of Israel and in many respects the architect of the State of Israel whose architect of the State of Israel whose influence still pervades much of the society ben-gurion Xand main was green dahveed green and he was born in a little town in the Ukraine in Russian Poland and plum sck his grandfather was a Hasidic Jew his father already had become semi secularized the 19th century become semi secularized the 19th century saw an enormous wave of desertion from tradition from Jewish observance that swept the Eastern Europe especially the younger generation to an extent that we would find that almost unimaginable but it's no exaggeration to say that certainly more than half of the children of religious Jews at the end of the of religious Jews at the end of the 1800s deserted all religion and followed the different ideologies a beggar Ian's father was a member of the home of Hz own which was the forerunner to the Zionist Organization and ben-gurion himself went to Heder until he was 10 years old but he already went to a more modern hater by that I mean that they taught in hater by that I mean that they taught in Hebrew but the subject matter was purely Torah and ben-gurion had some sort of background in Jewish knowledge though he was far from being a scholar his father also gave him a secular education by hiring private tutors to teach him something which was very common also in Eastern Europe that since

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7. 35:23entire war the Yishuv was quiet with the exception of the right wing of Jabotinsky x'…
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9. 46:51resigns he says the load is too much he's carried the the thing for so long…
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