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Journey To Kivrei Tzadikim in New York - Rav Pam

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this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com we're standing here at the kevar of ram yaakov he lived 88 years from 1913 to 2001 when one thinks of rapam one thinks how the torah is one thinks of the sweetness of character of the truth was a rebbe for six decades and in the course of his career he taught more than 2 000 students in his classrooms but his influence extended well beyond his classrooms if you want to sum up the success he had with his talmidim um perhaps we could sum it up in a response he once gave to revisement when uh really reisman asked you know sometimes you see robaya moore burnt out how does uh rebbe make sure that they always have slack on teaching and rev palm responded see some rabbi teach gomorrah so if they teach kamara so they're teaching the same gemara every year they're in danger of losing their seatbook don't teach gemara teach tao medium focus on the person not not the subject but was a paragon of humility he wore a normal business suit a turned down brim and he started know the base madrish among the talmidim as lavaya he insisted that there should be no has paid him except for a farewell from his oldest son of aaron because he said he didn't want to go to the world of truth with a false passport rapam was admired for his soft-spoken nature and this is something that rapam certainly from his own beautiful midos but something that he learned from his mother because he would say over that um when asked how does one train children to be respectful he responded that children learn not only from what they see from their parents but more specifically they learn by from the way the parents speak to them he would say in his home his mother even when it was hectic on an air of shabbos she would shower such praise on the children and um and one cannot help but think that this is a meda that uh rapam the palm was influenced from his mother in fact he said his mother's speech was rhino shabba ryan his mother's speech was of the purest there's a humorous anecdote when some tamidim had a a little bit of an argument of whether a certain world word was never power or not so they sheepishly went to upon and said you know there's certain words that are not exactly nibble pain and rappam said you mean like the word fres you know and then they realized that the word that they were thinking about was far worse but this is where palms always so careful in every deborah that he said rapam taught for basically over six decades 1997 palm discovered that elena he had a serious illness he would need surgery and he mentioned that he had been mispalo that he should be zoe to teach tara for 60 years and in 1997 it was 59 years he began his career on tarvadas in 1938 as a bucker and actually uh repam taught another four years he tore a total of years interesting in rappam's humility he was once asked is it true that the rash shiva knows and he responded normally one is not is a lot of lie about what they know and say no i don't know gemara i don't know but when it comes to every jew must know so the answer is yes i do know at the end of a palm's life he's surrounded by a few dozen of his talmidim who were dominating at his side for the last six hours of his life they said they say their shrivera they reached my israel the tamidim closed their eyes and when they reached achad palms neshama left he left this world surrounded by his talmidam yatsasa yaghin alaina you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com