Journey to Germany: Frankfurt - Times and Controversies With Rav Nosson Adler

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay uh if i could just share with you just a few more thoughts about the national haggadah of nassen adler it's very interesting the dive in the sanzero he told the grandson of samsara shimon seifer actually the son of some sophomore he says the fact that your father the psalm surfer reached such high heights it's not a hidden he had a rebbe like with nothing adler i heard from naphtali of raptured who heard from the noah mali malach that for many many years a holy soul did not come down to this world the likes of ramnes and adler since the baal champton of himself you know it's interesting the uh mashulish brings down a person might ask these kihilois had so many and yet look what happened claudius had such a rapid descent in the aftermath of this era where the lack of observance in europe really plummeted why was that and the reason is because he says the ramada ramosha of dessau from moses mendelssohn and this really uh dampened the hopes of kali so the truth is i once saw that the era of the gr of the vilnigan and era of all these gadolim was the era of the potential for the coming of mashiach and so to speak it was the era where heaven and earth were fusing together and so to speak you know if you ever go rock climbing so you know that as long as you're wearing a harness you can't really fall too too dramatically but what's the most dangerous time is when you're switching harnesses when you're switching harnesses you have to be very careful so there's a concept that the period of these good oil limb was the period where the akhis hayamim had the potential to come and so to speak we were being the harness of this world was being removed and we were going to have put on us the harness of the future it was a very tenuous time and that's why god gave us so many gedale israel and they safeguarded that we didn't fall further than we possibly could have it's very interesting he brings over here that somebody once said about renault and adler that he's a male hashem and said what it's an insult to call them hashem he was him he was kemat you know he was a ah by the way on the positive it's very interesting how many gateways of wisdom are there they're 50. how many how many punim latoya are there 70. how many years did my shrapnel live 120 why shivan panama torah 50 gateways of wisdom and that's why toward the end of his 120th year he was being summoned already because even maisha beno did not have the full 50th gate so i want to share with you uh something quite a remarkable and that is ramness and adler said from the day that has seiko kicked in he never forgot anything he learned and that is the reason why ramnes and adler did not write down his torah we mentioned earlier that nasa adler did not really write swarm why because to write tara shabbat pai you need a heter isla hashem if you're a teresacha in order to act for god you have to break the torah in order to remember it so we're allowed to write down in order to remember but adler didn't have the need to remember he remembered everything and therefore he didn't write down that's why in his personal swarm he didn't sometimes even make footnotes he would make little in the kudos little dots i actually remembered many years ago bernie shafran of kew garden hills new york he showed me he has a safer ho iqrim with the footnotes and the dots of ramness and adler so he actually i asked him uh this morning to send me a copy you could see renassen adler's personal safari iqram with his dots on it because he held he wasn't allowed to write down torah so it's very interesting is the sam safer continued this idea that writing swarm is a special dispensation it's a hetero [Music] says that if you're riding a safe era to gain publicity and to promote yourself you also have no right to do that you're only a lot of right in order to act for god but if you're not acting for god you're acting for yourself you're now out of right this was the sheet of his review i mentioned at the kevin there's something i didn't want to say at the cover so let me tell you what it is in the year [Music] adler was never the chief rabbi of frankfurt he wasn't one of those names he had a private minion in his house we've never lived a very acidic lifestyle a very kabbalistic lifestyle and the balabatim and frankfurt were not necessarily pleased they didn't like his private minion they didn't like the fact he didn't dominus and in 1779 rav nassen adler was put into harem by the community of frankfurt together with his kata hasidim he wasn't part of the hasidic movement although the hafla was what's very interesting is even though the haflo was the talmud of the magid he was able to remain a rabbi of an ashkenazi community he knew how to balance ramness and adler lived a very kabbalistic lifestyle and he was actually put in serem and i have over here the text of the kheram from nelson adler in the year 1779 but ramnasana was one of the all-time great gadolin he was the rebbe of the bashem of mikhail and of course the rebbe of the sam soyfer you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com