WEBVTT 1 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:32.679 So let me just do a number of things before 2 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:36.159 we start. I do believe this class, we will get 3 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:40.640 to the Lavaterbian. My mother keeps asking me, I first 4 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:42.960 want to go back to last class. I want. I 5 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:45.320 didn't have this picture handy. Thank you to David Eisen 6 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:51.280 for showing it to me. Here. Where is it on 7 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:57.079 my scream? Here? Here it is? You should see it? Now? 8 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:01.600 Can you see it? I don't have my own thing? Okay, 9 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:04.680 So this is he's a show height from Morocco. And 10 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:07.879 what is he holding there? He's holding a partridge. And 11 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:10.120 I have the letter you can see on Rabbi Zivatowski's 12 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:14.840 website about the testifying that they used to shaft it. 13 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:17.200 So it's a kosher bird. So if anyone wants to 14 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:21.599 eat the partridge, be my guest. Just getting my other 15 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:24.040 screen up in here, a couple other things I want 16 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:27.599 to show you. I listened to the video and no 17 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:30.920 one corrected me on this point. I couldn't believe I 18 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:33.120 said it. We were talking about Italy and I said 19 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:38.400 that the only two communities are Rome and Livorno. Of 20 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.799 course there's Milan, Milansa, the second largest community after Rome, 21 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:46.400 and you have Rabbad there and you have Sparta juice 22 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:53.959 and very very nice community as well. What else do 23 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:56.000 I want to show you? Oh, you'll be very happy, 24 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:59.439 Rabbi Kelman with this, and I think I will send 25 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:03.599 this to you. Hold on, uh in case you didn't 26 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:05.959 have it, I know you would, you were very concerned 27 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:13.800 about it. But hold on, where is it? Oh boy, 28 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:17.680 I'll get it here. I have lots of you see 29 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:20.199 all the stuff I want to show you. Uh, if 30 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:24.599 you recognize who that is, hold on, ah, here it 31 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:29.439 is a mask that's coach. In case you were wondering, 32 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:34.599 there you go, maybe because there's kidneyos or something in it, 33 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:37.960 but uh, it hasn't reached America yet. But here this is. 34 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:40.960 This was taken in Israel last week and uh it's 35 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:45.919 under the uh hassom sofa hashkaka. It's a big hashkoha. 36 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:48.199 And if I have been a brock, I believe. And 37 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:54.360 you can never get your coastal lasa uh COVID mask anyone. 38 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:57.439 If in case you're wondering why you need it, well 39 00:02:57.719 --> 00:02:59.280 chalk that up to all the other things that have 40 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:04.400 has that are needed. But look, Jews need Parnasso, so 41 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:06.280 they come up with these things. What can I tell 42 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:14.759 you I had nice correspondence with someone and I, uh, 43 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:18.479 here here's the story. I give full names. You'll hear 44 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:21.520 when I ask or when people tell me. Other than that, 45 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.759 I only give first names unless I feel there's, uh, 46 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:28.879 there's no reason. Then I don't give any names. But 47 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:30.599 one of you who actually I forgot who it was, 48 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:33.199 I won't mention the name. We're talking about this this 49 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:36.240 thing I was speaking about about Gamara only being for 50 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:40.280 the elite. So he asked me, is that something that's 51 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:43.280 I think only recently or in the olden days that 52 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.039 everyone will be expected to learn? And I actually think 53 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:48.240 this is the way it always was. And I'll give 54 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:50.360 you the proof of this. Unless you think this is 55 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:51.759 not a good proof. I want to show you what 56 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:56.039 the mid Rush says. Well, here's the mid Russian vakuroba, 57 00:03:56.759 --> 00:04:00.280 and it says as follows. You see where the moreker 58 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.240 is here, it's it's saying, but no hagg shibo, I'm 59 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:08.879 the practice in the world is el A thousand people 60 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.560 go and study mikra yoya. About one hundred of them 61 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:15.319 are one tenth of them are successful. Of this hundred 62 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:20.360 male amshna, one hundred will study Mishna Sara ten will 63 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:24.079 come out successful. And of those asara a Talmud ten 64 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:28.839 will study Talmud, only one will be successful. So what 65 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:31.439 we see among this is that already even in the 66 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:34.920 time of the Midrash, they're talking about how for the 67 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:37.800 for the average person and by and that's so they 68 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:41.720 they give a drussia here as I recall you, Masasi 69 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:46.920 from Cohalis Uh, so that you see already in the Midrash, 70 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:48.839 this period which is taking us back. I don't know 71 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:52.360 what we sixth century, seventh century. I'm not concerned when 72 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:55.079 it was actually put together edited, But these traditions go 73 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:57.879 way back, uh. And they are already they saying there 74 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:01.560 that of a thousand people, one you will have who's 75 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:03.439 yoats say? I guess that means to be an expert, 76 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:05.560 maybe to give a lot of decisions. But you see 77 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:08.120 already out of one thousand and only ten of them 78 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:10.680 go on to study Gamarus. So we're doing a lot 79 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:12.000 better than they were doing at the time in the 80 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.439 Midrush if you look at it that way. Okay, Matthew Miller, 81 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:18.959 he called my attention to the following. Remember I mentioned 82 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:21.600 Rabbi Mazus. He said about WHYU he heard that there's 83 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:24.639 a guy at Yu who wrote a book showing how 84 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:29.160 everything derives from the Hebrew language English. Also all the words. 85 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:31.600 I didn't know what he was referring to. Thank you, 86 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:36.240 Matthew Miller. Someone at Yu. I guess it's from the seventies, 87 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:38.519 Isaac Ohan and Moses, and I don't know where he 88 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:44.600 is now. But if you let's see, let me close 89 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:47.720 this up here show you what he wrote. This is 90 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:51.240 what Rabbi Mazuz was referring to. He actually published a 91 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:55.879 book on the topic and you can buy it. The 92 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:58.959 word the dictionary there reveals the Hebrew source of English. 93 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:06.759 That's Isaac, moseson that's Uh and Isaac. And Matthew Miller 94 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:09.600 called my attention to another thing. Get his paper here. 95 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:12.720 This is from a sermon. If you go to Yu, 96 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:14.879 you have all the sermons of Rebbe Lamb. He he 97 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.480 was incredible. He wrote everything down, he typed it all 98 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:20.759 up and then he and now they've published plenty of them. 99 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:25.480 But here is one of his sermons, say goodbye to 100 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:29.680 the cousin and the mask. What Matthew pointed out, which 101 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:33.240 is interesting, is that he wrote out the words you 102 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:39.560 see here vaka at mateel him bi Adeau. He wrote it, 103 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:43.360 he typed it out. He actually wrote God's name, which 104 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:45.360 you're allowed to do, but you can't throw it out then, 105 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:48.319 and we're accustomed not to do that. But it's significant 106 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:52.240 or interesting at least that rebby Lamb since he's writing Torah, 107 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:55.000 he didn't feel a problem in writing out Uh. It's 108 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:58.360 not the tetragramaton, but he didn't feel the problem with 109 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:03.879 writing it out. Two more things mel Mel asked a 110 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:05.839 question last week, and then we're gonna get back to 111 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:08.399 Bavor and that will be the last thing mel asked. 112 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:14.160 I mentioned the reveliab and a Mosic who talks about Uh. 113 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:19.720 It's actually in his uh A Mattmufkilla. If you look 114 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:24.439 in his u is a mat Mafkia, page volume two, 115 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:27.600 page two B. He speaks about all these things that 116 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:32.959 we're uh. He thinks that it's Gilgel. So for example, 117 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.800 there's a Talmudic opinion that what as they saying love 118 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:40.480 on is? I forget who it is? Uh. I'll read 119 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:42.240 you some of the things he has here. Co is 120 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:46.920 is dar Jovash and who is love on? I forgot 121 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:52.360 to love on is? Uh? I forgot which who identify 122 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:55.199 uh love on his bill? Yeah, how could love them? 123 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:57.639 And he says it's all Gilgel. And then there's the 124 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.560 one of pinchasenel Yaho. That's the one we spoke about. Now, 125 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.800 Rebena Mosic is not the first one to say Eliahu already. 126 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:07.439 The zoar says that the question is what does that mean? 127 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:10.680 That's what mel asked me. And Uh. There's a lot 128 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:13.600 of different interpretations of it. There are some who think 129 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:15.519 it's gil Go. In fact, before Ben and Mosic, I 130 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:18.160 found that Macha Recanati he's in the fourth century. I 131 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:21.199 believe he says that. But the rod Bas doesn't say that. 132 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:25.279 The rod Baz simply says that Eliao's from the same 133 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:28.160 show Rish and Shama. I guess that's the term they use. 134 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.000 Uh that so they have some spiritual characteristic. Incidentally, when 135 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:36.000 you deal with reincarnation, I got an email today all 136 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.320 the rabbad do at the same time. Mom, hold on 137 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:42.480 a second, let me show you something here. All the 138 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:48.080 rabbad Uh, yes, okay, I found it on my computer. 139 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:51.919 Here they I got the same thing there did all 140 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:57.120 the Kabbad's all over the world deal with uh? They 141 00:08:57.159 --> 00:08:59.559 say they have these classes that the experts in Crown 142 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:01.960 Heights of and then they send it out and they 143 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.639 send them all source material. So this week it's less 144 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:08.720 than number five reincarnation more than a fascinating topic. Judaism 145 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:12.399 provides a practical way to imagine this mystical process and 146 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:15.519 explains why it is important both to departed souls and 147 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:17.840 our lives today. This isn't the sort of thing that 148 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:20.840 we have in our typical modern orthodoxical but haabad, as 149 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.279 we saw it in Kabbalah, it's essential. So therefore they're 150 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:27.600 doing it. One more point before we go on, take 151 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:31.840 you back to last class. I said about this phrase, 152 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:36.759 can anyone just bave worn? It's right here? And I said, 153 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:41.039 I've never heard that as yeshivash. And some of you 154 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:44.120 wrote to me that maybe it means because that's the 155 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:47.679 word for warn, like annyone's warn, But that what sense 156 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:51.120 would that make? It's worn as hastraw we say give astra. 157 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:55.240 But three people emailed me and they pointed out that 158 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:58.559 I did not know this. I guess maybe why you 159 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.960 trained Rushi Yeshiva don' use the term. But it definitely 160 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:04.559 is a term, although it not the way he uses 161 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:08.159 it can anyone just bavorn. So for example, uh uh 162 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:12.440 Yahuda sends me, Uh, you would say, for example, the 163 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:15.840 basil safe already bavorned the lavicious question. What does it 164 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:18.639 mean to bavorn the question? It means to address or 165 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:25.320 to account for? Morty said emailed me that it means 166 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:31.200 also to to to raise the to raise an issue. 167 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:34.480 But Salo says it's to to bevorn something is to 168 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.759 preclude it. Morty says, it's to bring attention to something. 169 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:40.960 So I I said that last class. Maybe someone will 170 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:43.720 come up with the answer. And uh, I don't think 171 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:46.320 they say that at Gush. But uh, there is such 172 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:49.639 a thing bavorn in Yeshivah circles, so which I did 173 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:52.240 not know, at least in Yeshiva circles I was in. 174 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:53.639 I maybe I did hear of it, but I did 175 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:56.519 not remember it. Okay, that is enough for today. I 176 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:58.360 have some other things, but I want to continue with 177 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:02.320 where we are because we have good stuff as always, 178 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:07.080 and we're picking up in the Safair on page three 179 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:13.440 eleven simon kufmem Dalad, and there's a there's a couple 180 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:15.600 of things here. Well, first, I don't need to get 181 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:19.120 into much details. But a rabbei Mazus begins as follow 182 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:20.879 this is interesting in this letter to me. This is 183 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:23.799 from twenty seventeen. He says, I received your letter. I 184 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:27.039 didn't have time to reply from all the you know, 185 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:32.360 busy work troubles comin an ashim bavim meleim, everyone sending 186 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:34.919 letters and emails. And what are they saying that they 187 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:39.480 had a problem with me? Lama animuskirchel la chivalle. And 188 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:43.279 why am I raising all these questions about philosophical matters? 189 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:46.519 And he says, they want to it's monrocham behole. They 190 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:48.480 want to put their head in the sands, just like 191 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:55.159 the Ostrich. And they want to know why I'm quoting Aristotle, Aristotle, Hebrews, 192 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:58.399 Aristo and Einstein and Bilick. And he says they forgot 193 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.919 the rumbam and Ravsadia gone. And he says, I decided 194 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:03.759 not to give the satura night sheer anymore, which has 195 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:08.360 been going on probably for twenty years. But then everyone 196 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:10.559 starts sending me more than one hundred letters I received 197 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:12.320 from all the groups from the Hurry Dan from the 198 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:15.240 team from the Rial name telling me that the shear 199 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:19.720 is important. So I'm continued to do it. Now, this 200 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:22.320 letter deals with a few different things. I only want 201 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:26.399 to focus on one. I'll briefly mention just actually two 202 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:29.159 things I want to focus on. It began, I just 203 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:32.440 point something out to him. But the Rumbam wroting. We 204 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:35.240 have an ethical will of the Rumbum to his son. 205 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:37.799 And when he says all sorts of unusual things, he 206 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:42.080 attacks the scholars of France, as you know, in a 207 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:44.600 really really bad way. He shows, he shows that he 208 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:48.480 likes Ibn Ezra. There's a number of problems in this letter, 209 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:51.240 and the scholars are all in agreement that this is 210 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:54.399 a forgery. It's not even a doubtful letter. It's a forgery. 211 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:57.320 And if you look in Reb Schlat he explains why 212 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:00.399 it's a forgery. In fact, the text we have part 213 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:03.200 of it, we even have in an Italian text which 214 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:06.799 was stitched together with the second part. And so there's 215 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:10.080 no question it's not real. It's not authentic. But Rabbi 216 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:13.279 Mazous for some reason, and he writes me a number 217 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:18.039 of paragraphs saying, no, it's authentic. It's the Rombums approach, 218 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:20.639 and it's the Rombams language. And as for the attack, 219 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:26.360 and as for the attack on the the scholars of France, well, 220 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:28.480 of course he attacked them because he learned that they 221 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:31.519 that they believe in God has a physical form, and 222 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:33.519 all these things, and he goes on and on. You 223 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:35.639 can read it, but it's not true. With all due 224 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:40.440 respect to Rabbi Mazous, there's no doubt among the scholars 225 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:42.360 that this so called ethical well, if you ever see 226 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:46.200 it quoted, it's not authentic to the Rombum. It's that someone, 227 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:49.000 for whatever reason, decided to write it. But then it 228 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:54.360 gets interesting because in one of the Saturday Night Chierim's 229 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:58.440 he quoted from a book called let me read you 230 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:01.320 exactly what he quoted from here. The book is called 231 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:17.519 eov Kamocha who job as it is, and he says, 232 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:20.200 as follows. He quotes his book and he says, which 233 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:22.960 I saw. He says that in this book the say 234 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:29.799 for e Kmocham, the author goes to battle against these 235 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:35.960 biblical critics. So I wrote Youbamazoo's that apparently you don't 236 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.480 know who wrote the book. He says that, uh, in 237 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:43.399 the book I come Ocha whom he goes to. The 238 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:47.879 author battles with them. So who wrote this book Eov Komocha, 239 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.519 who the same person who wrote the book I think 240 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:55.840 it's called Yeshaia Isaiah was one against the idea that 241 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:58.840 the of of second Isaiah. So let me tell you 242 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:02.639 about one of the most fascinating families. They've all passed away, 243 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:05.679 but there are probably people listening to us right now 244 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:08.080 who at least know some of them. So I'll introduce 245 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:10.440 you by doing everyone till we get to the star 246 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:13.440 of the show, the person the author of this book. 247 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:18.759 But what family are we referring to here? Well, first, 248 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:24.879 does anyone know Mordechheimergolios. He's a great Talmudic scholar. He 249 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:28.559 wrote the books Encyclopedia Godolisrol. He edited the standard edition 250 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:31.679 of a Yikra Raba Leviticus Raba. He published a number 251 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:35.039 of other things. They taught it the seminary for many years. 252 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:39.519 He was married to a very interesting woman. But before 253 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:42.519 we get this woman, raj mol, let's talk about who 254 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:46.039 who her family is. The family is the Kolodetsky family, 255 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:48.919 and they had three sons that I know of, and 256 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:51.519 atleasta became famous. And one daughter, well, one of the 257 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:54.960 sons is Via kuitz ITZA Kulitz was a chief rabbi 258 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:57.360 of Jerusalem until he died in two thousand and three, 259 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:00.960 so a great post sake and important figure. Then another brother, 260 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:08.000 and his brother was Staklitz stay Colitz, who it says 261 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:10.159 he hearn in Subaka. He ended up in America. He 262 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:12.519 wrote a couple of number of books. One of his 263 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:15.159 books was on let's see do you have it here? Oh, 264 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:19.799 the confrontation, the exception, existential thought of Rabbi Joseph P. B. Saliveitchik. 265 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:22.799 He taught it Yu. But he's famous because he wrote 266 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.080 something else. He wrote a book called an ass say 267 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:29.320 not a book a short story you so rockover talks 268 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:33.879 to God. What happened was in nineteen forty six, I 269 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:38.080 think it was he was sent by the Schnut to 270 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.720 Israel to be a sech newt of Israel, to go 271 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:45.320 to Argentina for Latin America to encourage Aliyah. And while 272 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:48.120 there he wrote in Yiddish for a Jewish newspaper there, 273 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:50.799 as you can see it right here, a story, a 274 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:54.200 fictional story that deals with the odyssey of you know, 275 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:58.879 having faith in the Holocaust even though you're suffering so much. 276 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:02.799 The problem was that, as it says here, a few 277 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.279 years after it published, someone picked it up. It was 278 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:08.880 translated into English and Hebrew, and it was passed off 279 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:13.359 and it was reprinted in numerous places as an actual story, 280 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:16.359 a true story, which it wasn't. It was a made 281 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:18.640 up story, and it was. It took him about twenty 282 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:22.319 five years before he was actually able to reclaim ownership 283 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:25.400 because this was published all over the place as a 284 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:30.000 true story of yusso rockover. Now it's uh, it's achieved, 285 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:32.720 it's achieved its renown. It's it's it's a wonderful story 286 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:34.400 if you haven't seen it, as it says. It was 287 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:38.640 published in an edition with what does it say here? 288 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:44.559 Slim volume with afterwards by a Manuel of Levinas and 289 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:48.319 Leon Whistle tier Lean Whistell. Tear is making a comeback, 290 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:50.119 by the way, if you know what happened to him. 291 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:53.359 So it all depends if you believe that people should 292 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:57.599 be condemned forever. But he's definitely making a comeback. He 293 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:05.240 started an online journal of intellectual intellectual opinion. So that's 294 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:14.000 sibling number two see Klitz, and the third sibling is 295 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:21.799 him Klitz also Yeshiva trained a business person. He wrote 296 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:24.839 he's known in the Yeshiva world because he wrote he 297 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:27.079 was actually in the ar good. But he wrote a 298 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:31.119 book here you see it Jjosa Mirita, which is a 299 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:34.559 description from up close. Their families are very close of 300 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:39.680 the rash. And this book was controversial for the simple 301 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:43.920 reason that Chim Colitz spoke about something and everyone knows, 302 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:45.880 but no one will ever wanted to speak about but 303 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.599 everyone knows it. Subsequently, it's spoken about that the Rasis 304 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:53.759 did not have a good marriage, that his wife was 305 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:56.160 who was somewhat significantly older than him. In fact, he 306 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:58.839 married her when he found out that he was deceived 307 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:00.599 and how old she was. But he says he's not 308 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.559 going to allow a Jewish girl to be embarrassed this way. 309 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:05.720 But they did not have I mean, she would you 310 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:08.079 listen to them. Now there's a few more than a 311 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:10.640 couple other people written about it, like she would scream 312 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:13.480 and this, and it's it's it wasn't Look can I 313 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:16.880 say it wasn't a good marriage? And uh so Colets 314 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:21.880 writes about it, uh their marriage and uh so, of 315 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:24.559 course everyone wants to read about it because everyone wants 316 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:26.759 to know about the Hazniche. But then everyone attacks him 317 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:28.680 because he shouldn't have written about it. But everyone who's 318 00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:32.440 that game, they want to read about it because it's interesting. 319 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:36.200 A student Shiva students would climb through the coras nishes window. 320 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:38.359 He would stay in the room with the door closed 321 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:40.680 and he'd open the window and he'd speak to them 322 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:42.839 from the window, or they would actually climb in because 323 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:45.799 his wife wouldn't allow anyone in the house. It was that, 324 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:49.279 it was. It was a strange situation. And uh uh, 325 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:51.200 so he writes about it. So it's a famous book. 326 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:54.079 It was only reprinted one time, and uh, I was 327 00:19:54.119 --> 00:19:56.799 fortunate to find a copy in Israel. That's that's And 328 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:02.480 then they had a sister, and uh Wittfisher family with 329 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:09.680 a daughter. And here she is Rachel Colitz Kulitz or 330 00:20:09.799 --> 00:20:14.079 when she was married Rachel Margolios. She only passed away 331 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:16.400 in two thousand and nine. She lived in America for 332 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:18.720 many years. Remember what I told you that her husband 333 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:21.680 was teaching at the seminary for I think throughout all 334 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:25.920 the sixties to early seventies. And look at her books. 335 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:30.920 So she wrote Echa raya Yesheahu an iov Komoshahu, and 336 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:34.000 then she wrote another book about and these are very 337 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:39.880 interesting books. She is a woman who is a Torah scholar, 338 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:45.559 who's educated, who's writing books before this was popular before Nahamolibuwitz. 339 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:48.680 Really let me take that back on the same time, Nahamolibwitz. 340 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:52.079 But she's writing like from a Torah academic perspective. She 341 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:56.960 is someone who all these women at Migdalo's and Nishmat 342 00:20:57.039 --> 00:20:59.839 and Lindenbaum, they should know about her. Her picture should 343 00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:02.599 be on the wall because, uh, they're all following in 344 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:04.839 her footsteps not even knowing who she was. So that's 345 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:09.960 Rachel Margolios from the Kolwitz family. So Rabe Marzous, So 346 00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:13.200 I write to him, I said that you said that 347 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:16.119 that Noam, that he went to war against you know 348 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:19.400 some of these critical theories. Did you not know that 349 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:21.720 it's actually not a man who wrote the book. It 350 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:23.559 was a woman who wrote the book. So it should 351 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:32.119 be no rama. And he says, as follows to me. Uh, 352 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:37.960 he says, I know, yeah, Datti, I knew that she 353 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:44.440 was Rabbit Rachel Mars, the wife of doctor Mordechaim Margolios 354 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:47.119 and the sister of rabba Ya Kolitz and also the 355 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:50.000 sister of Hayen Kowitz, the author of a Jose Marita 356 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:53.000 and he doesn't know Si Kolitz. But Stikolitz again was 357 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:56.359 in America for all these years. And then he says 358 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:00.480 to them, why didn he saying noham, He says, uh, Nevertheless, 359 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:05.880 I wrote Blush on Zachar because of Sneel's reasons. Chilo 360 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:09.519 that people should not say that I'm mitva Mia, that 361 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:11.960 here I'm picking on a woman, I'm arguing with a woman. 362 00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:14.640 And therefore, he says, you should read the sentences follows 363 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:16.799 he says, I intended the book. So when it says 364 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:20.160 ov a safer Eo of Komocha, who knew mahem, what 365 00:22:20.359 --> 00:22:23.279 is it? It's the book is disputing with them, not 366 00:22:23.400 --> 00:22:26.559 the person. But he says that he thinks, for Sneer reasons, 367 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:29.880 it's not good to have a man hu hey. Today 368 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:32.799 they'll say it's man'splaining or things like that. But look, 369 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:35.640 if you're writing an academic work, you need to be 370 00:22:35.720 --> 00:22:38.559 able to uh. Men should be able to criticize women 371 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:40.559 and vice versa. But I don't know if this is 372 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:42.880 a Victorian thing. I don't know what he means by Sneel, 373 00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:44.279 because I don't know how it is in a violation 374 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:48.160 of set, but to criticize a woman's writing. But and 375 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:51.759 he says, he says, because they would that they would 376 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:53.960 not say that I'm arguing with a woman. Maybe the 377 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:56.960 whole idea that you're disputing, I don't know. But so 378 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:59.400 he knew, he knew that it's written by a woman. 379 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:01.920 And if you haven't heard of Rahel Margoliot, like I said, 380 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:05.480 that she has not been given the do that she deserves. 381 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:10.319 That she's writing a top level stuff in I'll give 382 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:12.799 you the date. Let me see if it gives the dates. 383 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:16.359 Fifty four is her book on Yeshayahu and the book 384 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:22.079 on eo of it's it's showing it two nineteen eighty one, Yes, 385 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:28.759 that's later. But so that's a Rachel Margoliot. Then the 386 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:32.240 next part of the letter is of interest also, especially 387 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:34.119 because we're coming to Pesa. We have another thing of 388 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:38.559 interest coming to Paso too today as well. Hopefully all 389 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:41.079 you see in the letter is he says, I've never 390 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:43.839 seen this book, Pelayo. It's this chew vote. So let 391 00:23:43.880 --> 00:23:45.720 me explain what it is. I explained in the note. 392 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:51.519 Rabbi Mazous says, as follows, he published an article in 393 00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:55.599 Ortoum in twenty fourteen. I can send it to anyone 394 00:23:55.759 --> 00:24:02.000 who's interested. It's called Byankibus regarding matter of washing clothes 395 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:05.960 during holamo Aid because if you look at the sage 396 00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:08.119 just said, you're not supposed to do the laundry at Holamoid. 397 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:13.559 And he says that this was in their time, that 398 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:15.920 it would all be they would mahab sin beyad, they 399 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:20.480 would do it all by hand at the river. It 400 00:24:20.519 --> 00:24:24.079 would take forever, and therefore people would hold off. They 401 00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:28.519