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Listen to noted Tour Guide, Lecturer and Yad Vashem Researcher of Jewish History Yehuda Geberer bring the world of pre-war Eastern Europe alive. Join in to meet the great personages, institutions and episodes of a riveting past. For speaking engagements or tours in Israel or Eastern Europe Yehuda@YehudaGeberer.com
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Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
In 1947 a book was published in Jerusalem bearing the title "Kol Hator". It ascribed Messianic overtones to the immigration of a group of students of the Vilna Goan nearly two centuries earlier, with the accompanying claim that they were the original Zionists. The book itself was allegedly written by R Hillel Rivlin, one of those talmidim who came during that period. But was it? Who really wrote the book? What motivated the author? Why did the students of the Vilna Goan - and the earlier Chassidic Aliya for that matter - move to the land of Israel at the turn of the Nineteenth Century? Was there immigration a Messianic or Nationalistic endeavor? And most of all, how is that legacy a relevant story today in the tense polemics of both scholarly as well as public discourse?
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4 years ago
There is a kol hator with an index to places the Gra says alot of things. Rivlin definitely added his own kabbalistic computations. You seem to generalise to one side. Rav Yitzchak Zilberman held of it. Rav itche Meir Morgenstern builds ideas from it that the Gra was moshiach Ben yosef. Anyway it's abit more complicated than 'the book is a forgery'. There definitely was messianic ideals behind the move.
4 years ago
Check out Dr.Aryeh Morgenstern who talks about this too giving the the other side of the coin. No offense it's abit one sided.