Parshas Hashavua – Rabbi Shimon Zonnenfeld · Lesson 1 · 24 Teves 5782
Vaera: 5782 - Rabbi Shimon Zonnenfeld of Nachlah with a brief insight from his grandfather Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld, on Tractate Megillah learned as part of the Daf Yomi studies, at the conclusion of the daf shiur…
Guest: Shimon Zonnenfeld
Episode description
5782 - Rabbi Shimon Sonnenfeld from Nachlah with a short insight from his grandfather Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, on Maseches Megillah learned as part of the Daf Yomi studies, at the conclusion of the Daf Yomi class of Rabbi Betzalel Mizrachi in Nachlah
Machine translation into English of the automatic Hebrew transcript.
00:00 Speaker 1 In this episode, which deals with the Haggadah, we’ll invite Rabbi Sonnenfeld. He has a very interesting story about his grandfather, the rabbi of Jerusalem.
00:08 Speaker 2 Maybe you could explain whether it’s for a fast.
00:10 Speaker 1 Rabbi Sonnenfeld, Rabbi Shimon Sonnenfeld.
00:13 Speaker 2 In short, let’s do it, because it relates to Tractate Megillah. This happened in Jerusalem about 120 years ago. A school was established, and they wanted to teach Arabic and other languages there as well. The rabbis there strongly opposed it and issued a ban against the school. So someone came to the rabbi of Jerusalem and said, “There’s a proof from Tractate Megillah that we need to study languages. If Mordechai hadn’t known languages, the whole miracle of Purim wouldn’t have happened. He heard those two ministers talking and understood them. So that proves we need to study languages.” He told him, “It proves exactly the opposite. If those two ministers had known that Jews study languages, they wouldn’t have spoken where he could hear them. Because they knew Jews don’t study languages, they were sure he wouldn’t understand. So it proves exactly the opposite.”
01:11 Speaker 1 May it be so, may it be so.
01:12 Speaker 2 May we have good fortune.