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Rav Yomtov Lipmann Heller the Tosafos Yomtov
Episode 447
As someone who experienced the upheavals of both the Thirty Years War, as well as the Khmelnytsky uprisings of 1648-49 (Tach Vitat), Rav Yomtov Lipma…
1 year, 5 months ago
Between Poland & Yerushalayim: The Lelov Chassidic Dynasty
Episode 446
With its origins in 19th century Poland, Lelov is unique among Chassidic dynasties due to its migrating to Ottoman Jerusalem in 1851. Rav David Bider…
1 year, 6 months ago
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The Tiferes Yisrael [Nisan Bak] Shul
Episode 445
The majestic and beautiful edifice of the Tiferes Yisrael Shul, also known as the Nisan Bak shul after its founder and leader, stood as the central s…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Maharsha
Episode 444
Someone whose Talmudic commentary has completely dominated Torah study for four centuries, Rav Shmuel Eliezer Aidel’s (circa 1555-1631), better known…
1 year, 6 months ago
Naming Catastrophe: Holocaust, Shoah or Churban (Destruction)
Episode 443
The Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler carried out the extermination of nearly six million Jews, primarily between the years 1939-1945. How is the horrib…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sephardic Purity
Episode 442
With the expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in the last decade of the 15th century, the Spanish Jewish diaspora spread across the world. Jews from …
1 year, 6 months ago
Rav Shalom Sharabi & the Beit-El Kabbalist Yeshiva
Episode 441
In the center of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem stands the Beit-El Yeshiva. Established nearly three centuries ago, with the lofty g…
1 year, 7 months ago
After the Eichmann Trial
Episode 440
The Jewish People, Israeli society and the world at large confronted the Holocaust in the years following the Eichmann trial. Survivors began submitt…
1 year, 7 months ago
Witnesses at the Eichmann Trial
Episode 439
The prosecutor at the Eichmann trial, Gideon Hausner, opened the trial with a speech to history. Evoking the memory of the Holocaust victims, and ref…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Eichmann Trial
Episode 438
The trial for former SS officer Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Final Solution, which took place in Jerusalem between April – August 196…
1 year, 7 months ago