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R. Shay Shachter and Being the Son of One of the Gedolei HaDor [Behind the Bima Clip]
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In this clip from Behind the Bima (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeuWBWO_kt0), R. Shay Shachter discusses the mitzvah of the king writing a sefer torah. In this mitzvah, he understood what it means to live as the son of R. Hershel Schachter, one of the rabbinic leaders of our generation.
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that the gemara says in sanhedrin that
when a king takes on the mantle of
leadership
it's mitzvah of the safety torah the
torah says he has to write a severe
torah of a karabakh yemen he has to read
in that safety torah every day of his
life that is supposed to be the guiding
focus the guiding light of every
decision that he's going to make
and the gemara says what if his father
was a king and his father passes away
and now he takes over the mantle of
leadership as a son as a prince
does he have to commission the writing
of a new safety torah or can he use the
one that was written by his father and
the gemara says no
mitzvah
of michelo
as children my father always told us
without making any illusion to himself
he told us this gemara and he said every
son of a mellow has an obligation to
write his own safetover and i didn't
appreciate what he said
until i got much older when i understood
that what he meant was
that we all have an obligation even
though our father has a tremendous
legacy
and represents a tremendous safety torah
on his own each one of us have an
obligation mitzvah
michelle