Reb Yisroel’s Idea — The ArtScroll Story Revisited 01 04 2026

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

Okay, good morning everybody. Um, we're smack in the middle of discussing the the uh the translation of of the terra in its various forms and in particular the art scroll story. Um, now I'm not really sure how to start. I I can't even believe that I thought last week that we'd be able to cover it all in one week. Now that I realize how much it is, it really is like a it's three four weeks of of of stories. But let's try. So I I want to revisit the I guess the So I I want to revisit the I guess the and then we'll discuss the various precedents that there is for for the matim and how we got to where we are today. So as follows I think I'll start with this um I think I'll start with this. Rabis Salanter was a radically innovative person. Everybody knows of him as the founder of the Muslim movement that we all know of Salanter when he was let's just say who he was. We've talked about him in the past a little bit but he was born in a small he was an elo and Mr. Salante was small he was an elo and Mr. Salante was a top tier elo. He was able to hold his own in learning with anybody all theum of his day you know held him in such esteem at in his low in his high 20s or low 30s he moved to vill and in vna which was like an is he started teaching muser he started which was the first he's he's an innovator in his he was many things he was the first one to make today is ubiquitous I'm saying there's tens of thousands first person to start was he started

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