Powerful talk by Rav Soloveitchik about teaching Torah and the Mesorah symposium of generations.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 เม.ย. 2020
- In a powerful informal talk from 1974, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik described his feelings as an elderly rebbe teaching Talmud in the classroom, and the rejuvenating experience of being part of the ongoing Mesorah of Talmud Torah.
Inspiring 9-minute English lecture with English and Hebrew subtitles.
"Experiencing the Mesorah in the Classroom"
All generations, somehow, we all speak one language.
We all chat, we all laugh, we all enjoy the company, and we all pursue one goal.
We all are committed to a common vision, and we all operate in the same categories.
There is Mesorah collegiality, friendship, comradeship between old and young between antiquity, middle-ages, and modern times.
This unity of generations, this march of centuries, this conversation of generations, this dialogue between antiquity and present, will bring the redemption of the Jew.
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Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (1903-1993), scion of a legendary rabbinic family, was renowned as a Talmudist and philosopher. He is celebrated for his insightful synthesis of Torah ethos into the modern world.
As a rosh yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University in New York City, Rav Soloveitchik ordained close to 2,000 rabbis over the course of half a century. He served as advisor, guide, mentor, and role-model for tens of thousands of Jews, both as a Talmudic scholar and as a religious leader. He is regarded as a seminal figure by Modern Orthodox Judaism.
Amazing!
The Rav, speaking in his sixth language, was inspiring and brilliant as usual. Woe to any boy who does not go to yeshiva to join this community! Zecher zaddik livrocho.
I hear these shiurim especially in Yiddish and I’m so enthralled and depressed I wasn’t born in 1935 to hear him. I know from reading that the Rav was distraught he only passed on the intellectual mesorah and not the experiential one. No I will never know what Davening next to Reb Chaim Brisker was like.. but when I hear it from the Rav Decades later I feel the Rav’s sadness and ergo the way he did experience Davening and Limud. His ahavas Hasheim is so clear hearing him, his concern for the future of Yiddishkeit became my personal concerns. I wish I could have been a Talmid to explain to him that concept and maybe with many Talmidim they didn’t “chop”.. but I do... this series posted the last three months... Where would Yiddishkeit be without The Rav, Reb Menachem Mendel Shneerson & Reb Moshe Feinstein!!!!! I hear the Rav hashkapha, Lamdus, Mesorah I’m so moved... while today we have Talmidei Chachamim but their conveyance feels more like an Oscar performance more than the message. As dynamic an orator the Rav was it was clearly NEVER a performance.
We are here communing with the sages from all the different ages.
Inspiring.
Outstanding and inspiring. Thank you.
Very powerful!
If one doesn’t shed tears listening to this….an odd mixture of tears of joyous chason and tears of a son in aveilus…. I have no Eitzah.