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Journey To Poland 2024: Krakow, the New Cemetery - The Kever of Rav Shimon Sofer, the Michtav Sofer

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this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay we're in the city of CAU we're in the new Cemetery in the city of CA we're at the cover of the son of theam the younger son of theer Rimer and Rimer was in his own right from the throughout his illustrious career he was offered many prestigious rabinal positions which he mysterious ly declined he declined nikolsburg he declined Papa he did accept the rabinal position in matar but ultimately he became the RV in crao here it says that he was a RV in uh mat in here in this in this city and Rimer was a very amazing personality he cited many times in the writings of the so for instance we have the Mitzvah that forgave at the of or for example quotes theim of that he said when he was 13 years old now Rimer was the one who organized in fact many people quote the but actually it's the was written by where outlines the world view of the that held that more than anything in his the most important thing was that's why says there's only one individual in history that's called someone who loved hasem there's only one individual in tanak who is called why because held that when you give up of yourself that is the greatest sign of now marries the Sam marries the daughter of rabiar okay they had a number of children and many other children and he they named Rim Ander after their ancestor the author of theer descended from the Y he named his son shim and shim was like a favorite of theer whener gave in PR shimer as a young boy sat on his lap he was a poet his favorite P was K ofar and called himim he was a very righteous cabalistic individual in fact the sier encouraged him to learn cabala with the pressberg di B Liber and he was 19 years old whener passed away and together with theer they they put together the various writings of theer now there is an amazing encounter Rimer had with France Joseph the Emperor of Austria because ultimately Rimer became a member of the Austrian Parliament and on seeing Emperor France Joseph shim became so overwhelmed with P by the way he asked the emperor normally you have to take off your hat when you see the emperor he asked permission to keep his hat on so that he'd be able to make the bra and France Joseph seeded and but became so afraid he dropped the paper out of his hand he became so consumed with fear and uh later on they saw that he was very upset at himself that he says I have so much from do I have the same from this was the uh accountability that he uh put upon himself now one time the uh Governor offered France Joseph a special cigar and it was on a shabas and you know what do you do you have to be maab the cigar so he had a think on his feet he was very clever and he said for me this is such a valuable thing I want to keep it as a souvenir How Could I Let It Go Up in Smoke this was the of Rimer now shimer wrote These are the writings ofer and his son's first of all based on the laws in cauer got the Aliyah of every shabas he took the first alyah Al minog krackow when he was born it was a big nest that he survived writes about him in that after a very long difficult pregnancy my wife gave birth Ben Z Ben that was the birth of Rimer his sons right about him that he would Davin like he was 8 years old he always poured great tears he afflicted did himself with tanim and he felt greatly for the pain of CLA these were some of the great achievements of Rimer and uh Rimer had a practice and he continued the age-old practice that he would speak in the of the and gave a which he continued until his son-in-law Raba cornar took over this practice at the end of's life and then ultimately a was R's son-in-law his son was who continued the practice of giving theas on the ra site until his passinger he was a very big Bucky in the writings of the by the way the also very often he was also very knowledgeable in the words of the B on the last day of his life which was the 17th of AD he turns to his son-in-law reiter and he says you know my whole life I always yearn to go to is and I never had the opportunity to do that I have not said anything until now but now the time has come to visitu and those were his final words he died saying now it's time to return the to the land of the living in is you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tor anytime.com