One Jew, One Vote: Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer, 54

One Jew, One Vote: Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer, 54: 

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וידאו: צפו: המצגת על ׳טעלז׳ שריגשה רבבות בעולם התורה - כיכר השבת

It is a very professional video. Very depressing, because to pretend that the Telzer derech continues in any way, shape or form is a bitter fraud. Recently, a great-grandson of one the Rabbis Bloch zt"l almost physically attacked me when I suggested that the derech of Telshe was superior to the derech of  Brisk - and he is a talmid of a  Rosh Yeshiva who is a great-grandson of one of the other Rabbis Bloch zt"l.


Who will convey the derech further?

My grandfather, Rabbi Dov Yehuda Schochet zt"l as a talmid in Telshe (sitting, second from left).

וידאו: צפו: המצגת על ׳טעלז׳ שריגשה רבבות בעולם התורה - כיכר השבת


 http://www.kikar.co.il/video.php?vid=213152-312905

h/t to my cousin, Reb Mendy Elishevitz for notifying me of the video, and to my cousin Reb Moshe Daniel Schochet for the picture.

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From the what makes it all worthwhile department...

An email I received. Copied and pasted verbatim, signature deleted, posted with permission:

Dear Rabbi Bechhofer,

After high school and seminary, I no longer was being fed a Jewish education, but had to actively pursue it if I wanted. This was really hard for me so I started listening to shiurim on Torahanytime occasionally when I found the time. My sister recommended listening to a certain class Rabbi Bechhofer gave in Our Somayach and I enjoyed it so much, I started listening to more and more. Listening to the classes Rabbi Bechhofer gave in Ohr Somayach made me feel like I was back in a classroom, something I miss so much about high school. The back and forth conversations, the cumulative information, and the unique insights you don’t always hear in a onetime shiur.

I have since started enjoying other classes, so I now view listening to a Rabbi Bechhofer shiur as a treat, because there aren't that many available online and I have already gone through almost all of them. I save them for when I’m not in the mood to listen to a shiur, because they are the ones I enjoy most.    

                      

I have so much hakaras hatov for all Rabbi Bechhofer have done for me; you have opened my mind to new ideas, perspectives, and aspects of Jewish history and helped keep me stay at my standards despite no longer being in seminary. It amazes me that a class given in 2009 can have such a profound impact on me so many years later. So thanks for allowing these classes to be put online. 

K'siva V'chasima Tova

Newly Posted Audio Shiurim!

Courtesy of  David Berger and Reuvain Meir Caplan, these are converted tapes from the Chicago Period. This the directory from which they can be downloaded:

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