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Seforim from Slabotka
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Episode 3: The Secret Library Rockland County: See The Good Campaign Some of America's greatest treasures aren't in museums. Hidden inside Beis Medrash Elyon is a remarkable collection of seforim brought from Europe, including books from Slabodka and the personal library of Rav Reuven Grozovsky. Some still carry his original stamp from before the war. These aren't just old books. They're a direct connection to the Torah world that crossed an ocean and helped rebuild Jewish life in America.
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This phone literally came over from
Europe. Take a look at this Gemara. You
open up the front. Half [music] Reish
Mem Beis, 1882.
>> Oh my goodness.
>> 1882. [music]
>> We got special access to an archive
housing the books from Beth Medrash
Elyon. These books came from Europe from
the 1800s from Yeshivas like Slabodka.
Let's go check it out.
>> Reuven learns with this phone. Reuven
Gershovsky. [music]
You open it up. It's really really
gentle because like this is
>> All right, I'll hold the cover so it
doesn't fall off. Where was it printed?
In Russia?
>> In Russia. In Russia. And he's not only
one. This is all his phones. This whole
library. [music]
Reuven Gershovsky in Slabodka.
>> This is from Slabodka? This is
>> Yeah, this is his stamp. Reuven
Gershovsky Slabodka. This is what he
learned with in Europe.
>> What is the significance of this Yeshiva
in America?
>> This Yeshiva was the base
for all
the concept
of
people dedicating full-time learning
to studying in depth, to spend time like
[music] kind of like chewing over each
word of the Rishonim to understand it
and to develop ideas based on it and
then to [music] continue from the
Rishonim then to the later commentaries
and then to the to the current Yeshivas.
That whole concept traveled from
Europe to America.
>> Right.
>> And here together with Beth Medrash
Govoha, together with Lakewood [music]
Right. That was the start of this type
of learning.
>> It was just an idea.
>> It was just an idea. No one knew if it
would take off. It didn't take off on
the nails just like common.
>> Unbelievable.