27 of Iyar - Yahrtzeit of the Maharil of Kopust - כז אייר תר"ס נפטר מהרי"ל מקאפוסט

00:00 This is the twenty-seventh day of Iyar, , and this is in the year . This is just hundred and thirteen years ago, uh, six hundred and sixty. And this is the, uh, passing of the Admor, uh, Shlomo Zalman from Kapust. They used to call him the Kapuster, Shlomo Zalman Kapust, who was the son of the Maharil, who was the son of the Tsamach Tzedek, one of the Tsamach Tzedek's sons. Of the seven sons became, um, an Admor, and his son was the Magen Avos, was Shlomo Zalman Kapust. The-- This Rebbe, Shlomo Zalman of Kapust, was born in the city of Lubavitch in the year Tav-Kuf Tsadik. That's, uh, five hundred and ninety. And he was the oldest son of the Maharil of Kapust. His father-- He took over his father's place, his father Maharil. The grandfather, which is the Tsamach Tzedek, that was, uh, Shlomo Zalman Kapust's grandfather. He was, um, very much endeared, endeared this grandson who would study with him. And, um, together... Um, so that was his grandson, but also with his own son, the Rebbe Maharash, because the Maharash was younger, and that was really his, uh, his son's, uh, his son's son. And in the year after his father passed away, the third of MarCheshvan in six hundred twenty-seven, he became the, um, the leader in the Kapust, and he was leader there for, uh, thirty-four years. Uh, he authored a book called Magen Avos, which has the same Gematria numerical value as his name, Shlomo Zalman, which is, uh,

01:53 various different expounding on the Torah, uh, based on the, uh, and his resting place is in the city of Kapust. Um, unfortunately, you know, this is with all the, uh, devastation and during the World War and the Second World War and everything else, there's not that much left, uh, from the, uh... There were some Kapust Hasidim, but I mean, they were closely related to, to Chabad. Hasidism was a different branch, but they came from the Tsamach Tzedek, so it's, um... But unfortunately, it has happened to many communities that were totally obliterated after the, after the war, and that's, um, the, um, unfortunate-- Okay. So now-