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Rabbi Meir Simcha 100th Yahrtzeit (Part 2)
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Introduction and Recap Hesped from Rav Menachem Krakowski Hesped from His Talmid, Rav Yoseph Rebbe Why He Chose to Write on the Rambam His Love for the Rambam Locating Sources for the Rambam The Yerushalmi as a Source for the Rambam His Fascination With the Yerushalmi The Yerushalmi Kodshim Forgery Tosefta, Tanach, Midrash Halacha and Aggadah The Rambam's Other Works, Including the Moreh Nevuchim The Moreh Nevuchim in Lita, Such as Rav Yehuda Edel The Rogatchover His Sources: Geonim and Rishonim The Rambam and the Ri Migash Use of Newly Printed Rishonim Rav Mordechai Rabinowitz His Uncle His Knowledge of Philosophy Oneg Yom Tov His Daughter and Mental Illness
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Dr. Alzar brat. We are here for part two
of the miniseries on Simka Hakayen.
Thank you to our generous sponsors who
have dedicated these episodes. Part one
we discussed some of the and sources
that talk about Romero Simka a little
bit of his early childhood a little bit
but mainly about his Rabanos and Vinsk.
Now we're going to transition a little
bit more to some of his and today's
episode is primarily going to be focused
around the without further ado. Rabbi
Dr.
>> Okay. So, we hope to talk about maybe a
little bit of we'll see as time allows.
As you said, Chabas is coming faster
than we realize over here. Okay. So, now
at the end of the last episode, I said a
second famous notypical story relating
to Rome Simka. We spoke about a the
miracle saving the Vince from the water
over flooding it. And then I said very
fast a story that's famous from Stein
who published it when he published Kbar
on Kachum. So the story basically was I
just said it too fast. I just wanted to
just read the lush. It's not for and the
point was that it was already known
three four it was already publicized in
an article in Han three four years after
died and probably with time we'll be
able to find the exact source of this
story but the point was he was sitting
in front of some and he said he related
a dream that he had that the Rajba was
sitting in Shamayim and and talking and
learning and said that someone defended
me in the Vince pretty much and that was
the point that Rome Simka got this
majoriz
of his based on the which was published
in
based on the and to defend the rajba. So
the rajayim was very to freed them from
this mah. So and he had this in a dream
and he said this over publicly. Okay.
Anyway the point is that there were so
much said about
and trying to to bring out after he died
and the various espay from different
people that knew him. So just to quote
two lashes and two pieces which will
help us get into what we want to talk
about today. Number one is there was a
hespid from this was a hespid from Raim
Kakovski
who was aum the mag of Vilna and a lot
there's a whole nice chapter about all
about him can be found in Kamnitki's
volume two oner. So basically he got up
in vna one of the that he was given and
it says according to the that brings
down in his book on
basically
was sitting there and others and
basically he said like this there there
are different types of
was given different
there's there's some that are bigger
experts in tisim there are others in
there are others that even have sephosim
there's all types others and there's
different that different people have.
Some of some of them have some have the
some are great they become known as a
special expert in different areas. Some
in others in
which is very all different aspects. is
the famous which is there's aim
but there's all types of and over the
years when people talk about different
we say this one has this one has this
fine and which is better but is not all
these things are discussions that
are fond of hashing out who's bigger
who's better but the point was
He had it
that they had. And then he says a very
important line that he was bigger, much
bigger than his if someone had the
opportunity to speak to him and learning
which sometimes is safe could even be
bigger. But tells when one sees this for
one sees that this was a remarkable work
with with everything. So this was a that
he said in this was a person that we'll
see momentarily. He was expert in
Rambam. So if he's saying this about
he's a he's a mand. Okay. Now there's
one hid that gets quoted a lot but it's
never I don't know if it's Kimat never
is it quoted who he was. As a matter of
fact the first time he published it he
published he publishes it and he signs
off the initials Yudra. So this was
published shortly after was nif in the
journalian
sharian
and it turns out yudra was ybi and he
was a talmud of simka it seems he hung
out by simka he was near the and part of
the significance was he I think is a
brother-in-law of cook tremendous he
ends up in a very special and he
publishes about he dies and he doesn't
write his name but later on it comes out
that it's his name and he says the
following He says this statement that
many many articles and I said basically
all the in the newspapers over the years
whenever it comes around always you
could always find different articles. So
they say the following statement about
what hold
said as follows
the
he was saying over what he heard from.
Now the point that this person was
saying is that when someone's familiar
with we understand this was mim for he
was someone that also was crazy into not
only was he into he was his own original
person he was expert in which a lot of
times you find which we'll see we're
going to talk a little bit about the
raach his his friend and the fellow
rains he never really looked at Kamat
didn't look at but the point was he was
able to take from all the and then still
remain original so he took he gained
He quotes plenty of some names will
mention but that was he was through all
this he was able to retain his being
original that was of he goes on and he
says something also that told him that
he has many many different to explain in
complicated suggest but they will be
they were that the were handling but he
didn't want to go against so he didn't
bother to publish it but he said in the
suggest it was much easier because there
was not too much there's not too
material from and the like. So he there
he had he could say what he wants
because he's not going against any
anything else. So he takas put a lot of
effort in the areas of shalomi as we'll
discuss and has been discussed many
times in the various espadim of his and
when one learns you see all the time.
Now he had this remarkable that everyone
knows. So he said he he talks about that
also and he says also another important
point which we I think touched on this a
little bit in the episode we gave way
back in with that he had something
similar to the which was that he was
able to take things from and then build
off them remarkable stuff and we'll see
where that and where that goes today a
little bit also. But the point is that
this this is what this yid who knew him
very well tremendous he says now then he
brings down that when came out many
people were not in his fold where's the
guess of this is the this is the yid
that you're talking about this and he
says the was that wrote very
very to the point now it's interesting
because a lot of times when you learn
you learn through you'll see sometimes
he's and he's not only he goes off into
and he's weighing and all the different
things are happening in our but as a
whole it's interesting is that that the
point was he didn't want to say
everything he was holding back sort of
he didn't say everything that he had and
one of the places I saw I think that he
said not everything that you say he's
gave over a lot of material in the let's
say he has a good in the
shi and he brings it and he goes even
further than where it's gave him in but
then he has a bunch more things that he
could do he stopped there was a he he's
sort of like he's holding himself falls
back. Okay. Anyway, but the point was
you saw remarkable which we'll also
mention a little bit more soon which is
in all the midrashim philosophies and
we'll see one particular piece
incredible
about this. You see his all this is when
you're learning the this is what this
helmet of his said the kiter eventually
eventually becomes known but it's
interesting this is writing this as in
the he says from the three volumes of
the it was not that he got the proper
enough that he should have from it why
he says very simple
he wrote very and a lot of that wrote
they wrote much more and people find it
much easier to read other and you have
to work on it too hard. But he says
those that sat and learned from at the
end they realized they got their money's
worth from being and learning the simka.
He says he did get did get many which he
sometimes respond to or not and that is
a different story. Okay. Anyway, bottom
line is that this was another and this
gives us a little bit insight into also
but this is from a firsthand person that
knew him. this he had um
rebi I think his name I think his name
was and he was as I said a
brother-in-law of fat now let's discuss
a little bit about and along the way
some other aspects and and as follows
why does choose to write his safe to
basically he we now know that he wrote
about kakula sadly which we might get to
talk about he left behind tons of him
most of it got destroyed some of it's
discovered how it's discovered we'll
maybe talk about a a little bit but the
point is what does he publish the which
is on the Ramb why did he choose the
Rambam he should have just written a
parish on especially a lot of times when
you're learning the in particular you'll
see that it's more on there's no
introduction so we cannot really come up
with why he choos also his
especially I've mentioned many times
certain especially in the early times I
I quoted a bunch of times the ram the
say in the beginning of
We're not to have such a thing from so
we have to see what we could learn when
we learn through the if we could pick
pick up some answers to these questions.
So one question which is asked is wasl
which is coming he's a he's a pure
litfac
they write perush so we today could say
oh what do you mean who's his
contemporary comes out after he dies so
that's not a good example people from
contemporaries of his we just were
talking about kovski he was also working
on the ra big time
sadly only on rama mada survives another
remarkable work we know altzar so but
that but
But the question is earlier on earlier
than let's say where let's say whenever
he starts to work on it do we find so
it's not clear there's a yid that wrote
incredible amounts over the years on the
raam yak of dins dig and he has some he
lists out some different that were in
the literatur okay but the point is that
even with when you do see all the
different works he's still he's at the
end of the day when you take the whole
work you see he's doing remarkable stuff
that are not found that's not found
elsewhere some of which we'll highlight
today. Now, one thing which already
reverses quoted in the first episode, he
fell in love with the Ra and you could
see that from numerous
time after time again that he that he he
literally misham was beyond just due to
time. I'm just going to quote three
threeus number one he says in the middle
of a conversation
and he goes on to talk to explain
something this is in
find then a different place he says let
me just read two other
he's explain He's justifying why he was
so in this
I I basically it's it's so his words and
he was so kadesh and so I have to be to
explain him and everything and one last
is the
and he's talking whatever the ra changes
it and he goes on to explain the raam
about this pride so it gets he fell in
love with the raom it's
in also you see he's in he's fell in
love with the Rambam and it's just it's
not just the Ram as we'll point out
shortly fine now another thing is that a
goal which many work on when they're
writing about the Rambam is to
understand the makyus of the Rambam so
now this is a question and today we'll
just talk about it very briefly we have
touched upon this in one of our earliest
episodes of our Kyvski and here we'll
also just touch on just a dropouts what
does it mean that he needs to write to
look and search for the
of the Rambam. What does it even mean?
So is a chuva and many times and I've
said this over to people they don't
believe that it's it's real when they
see it and it's real has published it
also and the chuva is like this someone
of the raam he comes to ask the rambom
about a raam in and he says where did he
get this from? He says to the rambom. So
Ram says I either got it from in Makus
or San Hedrin where it talks about the
So the Talmud says I looked everywhere
and didn't and I couldn't find the
source. Where's the gar that you got
this from? So the Ram says maybe it's in
the So says I looked and I did not find
it in the US and not even okay the Ram
starts thinking and he says I think it
was in a suggest
took out a Git and he couldn't find it.
The Kitser he couldn't remember. Later
on did remember where it was and and the
Ram said that if look what's happening
that even me the forgot sources of what
I wrote
a reader later on is not going to be
able to find the sources so easily and
they say the Ram was always planning on
writing a to be mafarish's makus where
he what was his sources based on when he
where he wrote the work okay now this is
a whole long schmoo in the world of the
Rambam what was his original intention
what was he going to change and that's
not for today but anyway So the point is
from when the Ram wrote his work people
were always trying to understand what we
was the makar for the Ram or was the Ram
did he have a new gang in understanding
a particular which sometimes that's the
case so is one such person who's doing
it now so question was is what was the
story what was this
that the might
and it turns out it was a sug
ink was spilled to figure out the raam
is different people different places
traced it I actually wrote about this
one time many years ago in a small work
of mine called since then I found many
many different more sources about it and
just to say two tidbits about it in
tying it to number one is that there was
a journal someone prints this Rambam and
says what is this this person wants to
know and this is how they used to do it
they would publish a piece in a journal
or a newspaper and they would hope that
someone would respond does depending on
who know the source of this ra today you
do you have
google claude whatever you want so it's
much easier but that was in the olden
days so kiter the the it was published
lash in one of the places was in this
journal called he says I was talking to
the in the summer the shows him exactly
where the raam was what I was talking
about okay so the so the says over that
this was a that theor got from his when
he was getting when he was going out
with his wife he asked in this Rambam
and the point was this is a way to see
if he taken nose and he
told him which was this where was the
sug that the Ram was referring to etc
was very fond of the story and he would
also say it over in the name that was
asked at at this and and like everything
else there's all different about the
story and everything but that's not for
but the point is that what I'm trying to
bring out already is is that already the
Ram was asked by of his the became a one
of the nudas that Rambam for generations
is to search for kyus. Okay. So one
search one point is there is the us and
you see already the talmud says the tal
and the ram they're handling is oh you
looked in the so the is a prime source
for material for the and just to show
one thing in episodes that we did not
yet release but we already recorded was
relating to the controversy. So this
controversy one of the
relates to the ra the ra says something
and the question is where did the ra get
it from? So in the course of the
conversation the bbach writes he asked
all different people where does the
raman get it from we know the raam he
gets things from the and other and other
places. So the point is we are it's not
it's not it's not pure where's the makar
for the ram. So where is the ram source?
So this the bottom line is this is what
came out from this. So, so
and also and many others that was one of
the that they would use for
help them to understand of the thought
and
he says
okay now obviously there's a lot more to
discuss over here what happens if you
have a anytime does the ramen go da like
that's its own conversation there's a
lot a lot to discuss but this is not the
point in this in these particular
episode just to touch on different but
the point is took it to a whole
different level now so so number one is
that I'm claiming is which everyone
claims notes
is using
for many it's fine but now what happens
is when you learn and you even learn you
see that it's clear that
was a fascination by sim mentions it
this other that we just quoted in his
usual in hispid it's a it's a known
thing so the question is where did this
come from this so much to be Isaac in
the US and this is a question which
always it's it's not so simple how when
you to figure out the influence so to
speak where it comes from and different
people have different hypotheses and the
answer seems to be to me very posit one
learns through both and you see the GR
school tremendous influence on him the
gr the literature world that he came
from that they were very into even in
Aishak where he spends a few years and
the Misha Rebinsky who in the previous
episode I said there was only one mccar
that ties him to be possibly the rebi of
Simka. So just now I had I located a
newspaper in the newspapers that was
published literally the day after he was
nif in Rio and over there in Yiddesh
this was thanks to the effort of my dear
friend Mishitzer we it says there
already tying him to this balisha
the shinsky was the ofatka later on now
what's the significance is when you open
up you see him also using a lot so it's
not the world that he came from the
litfish world this is what they were in
Aisha the the which is the head of the
his rabbi was
anyone learns also sees this it's not
such a that he's going to be in it the
point is what he was able to do with it
he became a nifla in it he wrote on it
all over and some of the were even
published in the in the vill and without
getting into the whole story about this
but the pulmas the famous forgery of the
shalomi kachim ror is one of the
earliest people that smells pulls out
that it's a forgery based on he was one
of the world experts of your and he
notices it and in the early letters of
already he says it's a forgery and
whatever reasons and the whole story
behind it that's its own episode or a
few episodes and a lot of people have
spoken about it and written about it in
recent years now but it's not only that
it's so so so point is
is a literature thing but simi he goes
and say they're everywhere is everywhere
so much so that one of the I think I
quoted earlier already says it should
take a just of all the how
systematically goes through and you
could see a lot with that. But next
thing is and he says you could see a lot
the a lot going on with it. He uses
which is again something I will link it
right back to the to the and everything
like that fine he uses that to bear a
lot is that common that's also a
question that needs to be answered and
we see this also when one learns tons of
times all of a sudden you a whole piece
of bearish also plays out over the
thought another thing that he uses which
it could be that he takes a further but
the his massive mash
he uses to answer ups whether it's
from
all different things. And you see that
he's able to use it at will whenever he
needs to. He could just pull it out of
his hat. We're not talking about that
is, you know, he goes, "Claude, could
you find me the for this Rambam from
this medish, whatever whatever he
needed, he he knew you you even in a way
someone might even say that gets
depressing because you could see this is
just like it's crazy." But the answer
is, and this is a fundamental mistake
that people make, this is based on a yid
that sat and learned 18 hours a day for
years and years and years. Even when it
became a RV and he was an accessible RV,
all accounts say that he was always
learning. He was always hoping to safer.
He stopped. He gave the person
attention. He spoke, he gave them,
people would come to cry by him,
everything. And we'll see more about
that as time goes on. But the point is
at the same time, he was so into
learning. And that's how it was. because
it wasn't shot that it just came you
know Malik came and gave him all this
information he plugged away and this is
how he got anyway bottom line is all
these things you could link it back to
the to the base me just he's using it
for the Rambam that I think is unique
although I cannot say 100% right now
this is a work ongoing with Rome but
anyway another pro that you find with
him in general is we keep on saying he
fell in love with the Rambam what does
that mean it means is not only is he
being everywhere in the Rambam and I
could sit and give 20 different lashes
just by opening up for 10 minutes and
see he and he's not only is he concerned
with comparing all different
this is another fascinating thing
he's a massive expert and he tells two
different showing how this plays out
understand it okay
now there are that on this level also we
seeing this as a matter of fact there
always is a complaint that there still
is such a complaint that different
people say there's a ram for the
yeshivvel they like
And then there's the and a lot of people
hold it's two different and very rarely
is there
and
all of a sudden when you start learning
what's the cash on this whole thing
everyone knows
was unbelievable they quote over said I
don't know the source for was fascinated
with with withhl
his son-in-law actually end up wrote
writing a book based off Raber quoting
Raber a lot but also stories over that
he had Messiah of but bottom line is
that it seems in he learned to okay now
but the point is that when you see him
how he's using to bearish aus even in in
also in
when he's coming to and in his own he's
using now it's not anyone learns in the
system you never see now it happens to
be in the past 1015 years there's a much
more of a revival in the limit of
worldwide
And why that is is not for today but
there is such a thing. The question
always is is where the get this for for
for so could we link it back to anything
you say I don't know maybe
they were learning it the the over there
I don't know the question always is what
was the
this is a conversation which is not for
today but again this has a beautiful
article about this and I'll just throw
out there two things there was a
tremendous tremendous his name was and
this for part of his life he was um the
mag of slanim now mag and those didn't
mean just he was a good speaker and gave
good speeches this yid wrote massive
works on raam tyrus and it's yda one of
the they say over that had on his table
for those people that and I once made a
joke that the had a big table and must
have been a lot of on the table but even
if not by the
those that know mish were in a spell
from him and one of the things is when
you learn through his and his you see he
was expert in it. Similarly, I'll just
throw out there one other thing. the Ram
gave Shirim way way back in his to his
maybe it was to a few maybe it was elite
but anyway it's not such a big thing to
find it's not so common to find we see
his many times he's bring he is using
now it's funny is like this that there's
a like everything else a thing become
something becomes a they do a fancy job
on a so a few years ago I came across
that aid and benra I believe it was did
an incred Incredible, incredible job. I
only bought one volume on Rama.
That volume is this fat giant. We're
talking about it's over 900 pages. He's
everything about the ra what? Because
eventually although said that was not as
didn't penetrate the world but
eventually it seems to have yes
penetrated the yeshiva world exactly
mapping out when what is not for today
but bottom line is it happens. So this
yid collects tons of information.
Unbelievable. But the ra with a parish
with aim or when the where goes off with
he almost has nothing to say. It's funny
you know because in the world it's this
is the of the and even of that they
spend time on but as I said there is
been a shift. People are much more
fascinated with the murder of in recent
years. So they have been getting to
that. Okay. Anyway bottom line is to
discuss just a few more points. What's
interesting and because of time I'll
discuss it more in the part three but he
what's fascinating to me also and others
have pointed this out is he's in the
vinsk we mentioned that he has ains
of the who's that the also his obsession
is the his obsession is also
and
we have we have
so you see it's something fascinating
there was no yeshiva in there weren't in
there but the two probably in the past
who knows how many years giants of Ram
scholars so to speak with them crazy and
was den and they knew each other we have
no indication that one influenced the
other and we'll we'll we'll leave it at
that we'll talk more about that about
their connection but anyway the question
but the point is why I still don't have
an answer why does he choose to write as
opposed to writing a parish like
I don't know but he does have tons of
kadushim and in A lot of times you'll
see okay we're going to talk about this
in this and then he has a whole thing
this is I'm taking from my notebook on
or my notebook on okay now he's a pisik
he's a r he's a pis he's getting chas
from all over sometimes there's a few
chu that he left inside why those he
chose to leave in also it needs
explanation I I don't um have a good
answer I don't okay now but okay so now
up till now we mentioned the different
nudes with the simra and everything for
and the question is does he take this
even further and the answer is that He
takes this even further and this is the
following points is like this. He has
this crazy bikus. Everyone says this and
we learned a bunch of pages in you see
this. He's using to answer up bunch of
times not so common riff remash
the ram is a of the fatherash
that's another way how to understand the
ram. So one of the times he writes
it makes sense to answer the ram. Now
just to throw out there just to have
again not to go into the whole story but
point is that it's known that who was in
the base medish of Salashkanazi the one
of the things was they sat and learned
Rambam crazy and we have different
copies of the Rambam with the of
Salashkazi and his possibly even in
these in some of these Rambams. So
there's a fellow his name is Ra Mandel
and he every time he makes a sim he
publishes a volume of some of the rear
credible manuscripts every time I open
up the volume I just sit in for an hour
of the manuscripts that he owns and he
publishes a manuscript that he has of
some pages of the Rambam with the on the
side of Gazi and possibly the so they're
busy handling already back then mus of
the of the Rambam the mish right also
the same kufa so one thing is he goes oh
this
So they already knew this makuda but
it's not so common to do this to to to
to be using this vast literature who
does okay
materials of his have been discovered
today we we know that the Ali is now
working on after their success with
which we gave a whole episode about so
they're working on now hopefully we'll
be seeing new materials of ra and
whatever a lot of materials that has
been published will be redone but the
point is ra also tal by his father Who
uses this material mayor?
So this we devoted in the episodes of
season two all discussion about this who
uses.
So everyone learns at one point in your
life you come across a few times
brings down from those same things that
is using and he uses it to be again
we're seeing the new play out very
important for in answering up the but
there's another which links back to this
with that I said from this tal of his
that he said that had the same ability
as the which was to be able take out
from and build off it. So this had he
found these and he was able to do it of
sugius and everything at the time they
found the ink's time they published for
the first time the he had letters which
was relating to in the controversy with
the ra important important letters for
those that are in the raises
it a bunch of times in his ra in his
so you see again and again he's using
the new materials but then it goes even
further he uses sometimes from an from
the ram
what's known as mandal based on
manuscripts he uses from a few times. So
you see he's using manuscript material.
Now we have to say and this needs
explanation and this fact it does not
mean that you're going to see every page
oh saying okay he can answer based on a
manuscript. No,
but the point is he's doing everything
you're seeing a person whether it's
his own originality and sometimes with
his smelled doubt that this is a problem
and turns out a lot of times he was
right whether it was with whether it's
with Rambam whether it's with now I'm
just going to throw out a letter because
this show sheds light that was known
much earlier than people realize there's
a
almost completely forgotten about his
name is Rabanovich and he was obsessed
with the ra andem just to throw out
there I hope to publish all the
materials I was able to locate of this
and a safer I'm working on it should be
coming out in the next few months and
one of the things that this was was
concerned with was he was aid a
tremendous he wanted to he was working
on the raam okay so in 1885 this means
it's before
anything he writes to
so means name got out there as a
tremendous nothing's published At this
point in time he's not a he knows oh
you're in the Rambam and he writes to
him this was into the Ram to look for
the Ram the Ram different things so he
writes to the better writes him a letter
and again andal and differentness and
says yeah I I tackle I noticed over here
there's a problem with the ra etc etc
mean say and but the point was it wasn't
that this is the only way not to just
okay spend time looking at manuscript
that's the only way you had to be as the
famous story goes
In the yeshiva they say the that whoever
the god you could put into the story
comes up to shayim and says ram I spent
my whole life working on you but I have
three rams I don't know could you tell
me them ra says that one's aut that
one's this one's a different and the
person slaps the ram across the face and
says
this is how you answer based on the
answer is I'm not coming to say oh or
even this that's this is aud to be aware
of there's different tools out there but
But this shows also that he was hea was
known much earlier in the 1880 early
1880s. Okay. Anyway, so so he's bringing
to the table tons of nudes through
different rishim and and the like. So
the question is does this come from
anywhere? And the answer is nimra his
uncle. I already spoke out in the
previous episode that the there was a
safer that came out in the and volume
two comes out in 1880s
from his uncle
and is a literatur also learned also has
to do with the the all the different and
he also you see him writing letters to
and using manuscripts and everything a
whole story one day will tell the whole
story but the point is you see that
there were interested in manuscripts and
using them Here we seek, we see his
uncle and we see this is that is not
unique also has a tie in. Okay. Anyway,
bottom line is not only does he use the
he's expert
the he uses
tons but tons of you never would expect
you see them all the time. Okay. just
just to say two with him
his thing
and is number one is unbelievable comes
across the lumis there's many pieces
that one could throw out to discuss one
piece that I I just I have no clue to
understand it out of I don't I'm sure
some people could but it's unbelievable
what's happening there in Ramuva he has
a massive
and in this piece just to throw out
there what he talks about he has he
shows off not shows off he shows his
incredible knowledge whether it's inab
whether it's in philosophy but not okay
yeah
we see that
which he calls
he talks about gil
and then he again you see his love for
the at one point he says
and then we'll get to discussing one
pratt with the with the is fouls. He
quotes many many different by name and
sometimes he doesn't. So there's one
name not one there's many but just one
quick story is I'm coming across he says
somewhere in he says
we're all that they had based on who
who's and every once in a while it gets
very curious who are these people that
he doesn't say the names to and so as I
mentioned there's this hush of a fat job
and just on
it's 900 pages and he did a few more
volumes so there he sometimes tries to
figure it out and sometimes there's ways
to figure it But over here is a of that
wrote on the side of his. So over there
he writes in the he says it's so what's
that he doesn't say
was in the time of the answer is this
has to do with again this is that they
say overk
had a tremendous tragedy which was that
he had a daughter and the daughter even
gets married and eventually it seems
that she mental illness and she comes
back home to live with him and bottom
line is that Simka has been quoted to
say that he felt that the reason why
this tremendous tremendous happened to
him was because he said
that I bothered too much. Now what that
exactly means we don't know but this is
what I've heard from more than one
source at the time that they say you
know Romeo was simp that okay he was
this you know what whatever however
tyrish you want to take and turn into it
that a lot of times sadly people go much
further now normally I would not say the
next pro but I feel that sometimes it it
it needs to be said I'm not going to
make a big deal about it but just to say
there's different about
said many times so it's interesting
thing is there was a yid that to know
and correspond with he ends up in
America. So he also had to do with the
rocket chover. So he writes a hespit
about the rocket chover and in the
hespit he's huddling back and forth the
whole time. What's the difference
between Simha and the rag cho? Because
as I said they're just like now between
me and you no one really could talk
about these two people because they're
just like such giants. They're like so
off the charts. They know everything.
What's the difference? And people
this person was Adam tries to in the
course of the whole thing. He says he
says many different fascinating things
but one fascinating thing is I don't
want to mess it up so let me see if I
can have the exact Russian that's the
problem when you have too many papers
you lose it. Yeah. So he's talking about
he says Loyolenu Romero Simkha had this
tragedy his daughter she she um after
she marries this her husband and Rome
Simka took it very hard he says that Ram
Simka at one point she took a knife to
Simkha to and he was somehow saved. He
says this in a hpid that he gave when
he's talking about this. Now it's
fascinating is when you see about one of
the many spade say this but not only has
when you read a lot of the stories he
was always say a lot of times people
portray
he wants to learn don't bug me just get
out of my life you ask a question and
move on
was his name and he acted like that
there's even pieces like this in which
it's clear it's autobiographical and
when you see all the different things he
had this he had one kid the kid gets
finally gets married
it's its own story but a lot of times we
don't always know the stories behind it
but here buried in this hespid I come
across it's a publish was published this
is actually a journalist coming out from
New York in the 1930s he gave it on sim
but but he says fascinating things about
both of them which some of them we'll
talk about but he says and unbelievable
makuda to just throw out there tragedy
and he just he kept on going and
remained okay anyway these are just some
of the aspects of as time is very short
is very is very short in the Next
episode we will talk about some aspects
of the meshma and some other aspects as
promised. As you as you could see,
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many more, but we have to have mercy.
And next episode, we'll continue with
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>> Okay. Wow. Fascinating. Rabbi
Haravazzar
and digging up digging up. You want to
just tell the audience what the name of
that gudul is? Who was writing? I will
next I I plan on next time because I'm
going to talk about the last but I will
give more background who he was
>> and and what's the story behind him um
in the next episode. I have to get
people to come back to hear the next
episode.
>> Absolutely. That that is your teaser.
Stay tuned. Yeah.