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Journey to Italy 2024: Padua - The Saga of Rav Avraham Mintz and Rav Yaakov Pollak

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this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay good afternoon everyone there's a big CLA when it comes to Kar not every piece of information about the God do you say at the Kev in fact some of the the most interesting material we reserve dka not at the C and with that introduction I want to tell you a little bit about the son of rabuda minz r the father-in-law of Mahar mayor Katan Yak who we mentioned the whose yard side is today yeah the the says is not a reliable saer but we'll quote from it nevertheless he brings down that RAB got embroiled in a controversy with rakov palak rakov palak was the one who who invented ppol pull is sort of intellectual acrobatics not the pull that we have today which is more based on uh firm principles that the risham set forth this was just mental gymnastics just for the sake of sharpening liod it was a Hal controversy that took on a life of its own there were two Jews in bolognia where we're going to go later and more than 100 ranim offered a opinions about it RAB AB Min and ROV palik took up different sides okay now this was not rakov pik's first controversy with the mince family there was already a major makus between rakov poic and rabud that I'm going to tell you about now in about the year 1490 RAB yakov's widowed mother-in-law okay you ready you could tell that this is up to Big controversy okay oh not not just the mother the widowed mother-in-law of rakov Pik gave one of her daughters who was a katana a minor to marry to a man by the name of R David zenner a promising Tam very soon after the marriage the Mother-in-law regretted the idea first of all R David was much greater was much older than her and as everybody knows the uh famous statement of kazal no I'm just joking it's not kazal Mark Twain behind every great man stands a surprised mother-in-law yeah it's amazing you've heard that you heard that yesterday and you're still laughing wow so the mother asked him please divorce my daughter she ref he refused rakov poik says no problem we could an know the marriage through through the process of Monon Monon is that if you marry off a girl as a katana and it's not the father marrying her off but it's the mother or the brother she could just articulate her dis satisfaction with the marriage and you don't need a get after the analment the local rabim and the scholars they protest against rakov because number one rakov po rebbi RAB of meberg was a recognized Authority lived more than 50 years earlier already said clao no longer performs meon we don't do meon anymore one of rak's biggest opponents was his own Rabbi rakov margolius of nurenberg he put his talmid in you know we were talking about rakov margolius of nurenberg put his tal rakov rakov Pik relent did not relent and he told his sister-in-law you get rid of this guy David zener do it created tremendous controversy was put in R was consulted he censored rakov palak you could see in ch he advises him he says you need to go to the grave of your rebbi and ask fora comes student of rabak palak and he said his rebbi was right we still do meon who said you can't do meon anymore so you have reab hudin rakov margolus rakov of meberg against the Rama and rakov Pak well there are a lot of hard feelings here rakov Pik decided he left Prague he comes to his na of Poland he becomes the chief Rabbi of Cal and he gets to Cal and he becomes embroiled in with and the writes that he heard that both of these RAB akov palak and RAB AR Min both passed away on the very same day okay that's RAB AR Min you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com