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CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #223 Rabbi Yonah & Shlomo Landau - The Life & Legacy of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef

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CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #223 Rabbi Yonah & Shlomo Landau - The Life & Legacy of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef

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He's saying that there was sort of a wild wild [music] west type in New York. It's all over the place. Everyone was able essentially to declare himself a rabbi. This is culture. This is not culture. There was an understanding even among themselves [music] that and and obviously back in Europe the United States was considered the typhen of Medina. And there was a [music] certain understanding from the kahillas back here that they needed to have a stronger [music] backbone. that triggered a search. So that there was 18 different gahillas that they officially went out the Torah Talks, Kazak's Tuesday night program. We have amazing special guests. Um, today we have a very important topic, the life and legacy of Rabak and we have Rabbi Lando and his son Landau. Welcome. Welcome. So um before we before of course we want to talk about the the chief rat the first chief rat by of New York could you just give us a small background about yourself? Yeah, I was born after the war in Hungary and then in stay I not remember I was a kids because they everybody was good they killed the Jews then there >> what year did you come to when was the America >> 47 I was a baby >> was the boy >> no before them really before them a few years before them I was small kids and we went to the the the school went in English in Jewish in the sat was make

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  2. 3:04everywhere going to different uh and you know that's how he developed >> he met but…
  3. 5:45force that that the people at the time said we got to make a chief rabbi…
  4. 8:56that as he as he started engaging with different issues in the community, it turned out…
  5. 11:31when when everyone assembled his his his followers, his detractors, they all came back. They all…
  6. 14:10certain realization Jewish whatever is they saw what what the EMS was, >> right? And there's…
  7. 16:55all remember on um on his yard site and about his life that can apply to…
  8. 19:28>> he also said earlier that an interesting anecdote that someone said that because uh he…
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  10. 24:33see terrible but I as somebody what was possible my father and my mother they they…

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