11of Adar - הסתלקות של הרב מרדכי פוזנר אח של אדה"ז י"א אדר תקפ"ג

00:00 On the day of Adar. This is in the year Taf-Kuf-Pei-Gimel. That's five hundred and eighty-three, five thousand five hundred and eighty-three, which translates to February twenty-second, eighteen twenty-three, is the day that Reb Mordechai Posner... Now, Posner was the family name of the Alter Rebbe, actually. That's the brother. Reb Mordechai Posner was a brother of the Alter Rebbe. Uh, and the Alter Rebbe's name, he changed it. Uh, later on, it became, uh, Baruch Hof and then Schneuri. Uh, that's-- they changed it. But the, the family name, apparently at that time there was family names already, was Posner. And the Tsamach Tzedek, that's the grandson related to his son, the Rebbe Maharash, that this Reb Mordechai, the brother of the Alter Rebbe, was a tremendous genius, and he had a very, a very deep and very, uh, straight path and, and understanding, uh, very deep, uh, complicated, you know, passages and subjects in the Talmud. And, um, he would study at, at, at, uh, uh-- Whenever he would study a, uh, a, uh, a sugiah, that's a, uh, discussion in the Talmud, uh, certain subject matter, and he would review it six times, five, six times, review it. Each time, he would come up with new insights with tremendous depth. And it-- You can see he's like climbing a ladder. Each time, he was like climbing another ladder, another ladder to understanding. And he was just a very, very sweet and a very pleasant person to listen to. He was just a very, uh, intense... And he

01:44 actually looked very much alike like the Alter Rebbe. He was, uh, very similar in face as the Bal Hatanya. Now, the Alter Rebbe appointed his brother, Reb Mordechai, as the one who was in charge of the revealed part of Torah, uh, which means that, uh, anything to do in the, uh, the Alter Rebbe, uh, for example, he, uh, instituted special like yeshiva, but they called it chadorim. Uh, not like the yeshivas today in the formal setting, but they called it chadorim, which means rooms. A cheder means a room. Today, we would say like even when you take a child, you call them to cheder. You take them to cheder. Cheder would mean a room because the melamed, usually a teacher, would room a cheder. But in those days, these were called the chadorim, the rooms. These were the most outstanding students who were brilliant and very studious, very learned. They would come. The Alter Rebbe had a special style and a special amount that you-- before you can even enter, you had to be tested, and you had to be knowledgeable in the entire Talmud just before even entering over there. And then a lot, it was a very, very vigorous, uh, testing to be able to get, get through and to go in, go in there. And before you can go in there, you needed to be tested by Reb Mordechai. He was the Rebbe's brother. He would test you. And he also helped the, uh, by making the-- looking over the Shulchan Aruch,

03:20 the Alter Rebbe Shulchan Aruch, to go by, go, go over the manuscripts. And, um, during his final years, he served as a rabbi in the city of Urcha, and his, uh, resting place is in the city in Kapust. Um, I'm sure you have this. It would be just nice to, you know, as we're learning this, it would be nice to have a, a little map, and maybe someone to do some homework, of the Ukraine, the Belarus in the, uh, in those-- that area, because a lot of these cities that we're mentioning over here, I'm sure they have in the Google Maps, you can find the old, uh, the old maps from the, from the eighteen hundreds and, and just to see. I'm not sure if we were able to tell them in those, those things. But generally, if we had a little map, we can see the different cities and the different places. It would a little, little bit, a little bit more of a visual.