History:

19th Century CE,  20th Century CE 

Collections: R' Schachter Jewish Heritage Tour of Lita/Poland

Description

Shiur given on a bus in Kovno, and Slobodka. How did R Yitzchak Elchanan's desire to get semicha from R Yaakov of Karlin, help him become famous? How would R Chaim ask for a psak from R Yitchak Elchanan? How would R Y.E. be matir agunos? After his passing, who became the posek for LIthuania? Who founded the musar movement? What were the names of the two yeshivas in Slobodka? Did R Yisrael Salanter make kidush and eat on Yom Kippur? Who were the three outstanding students of R Yisrael Salanter? Who did R Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg learn with in Slobodka? How did he survive WW2? How did R Avraham Dov Ber Kahana Shapiro(Dvar Avraham) give semicha to R Soloveitchik? How did R Soloveitchik end up in Boston? Is milah bezmano done before lo bezmano