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The Legacy: Teachings from the Great Lithuanian Rabbis is the combined effort of popular historian Rabbi Berel Wein and South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein to crystallize the central principles of Lithuanian Jewry in the form of a collective ethical will to future generations.
They are well-suited for the task. Rabbi Wein’s father Rabbi Zev Wein was a talmid of Rabbi Shimon Shkop and Rabbi Wein himself learned under many eminent products of the leading Lithuanian yeshivos.
Like over 90 percent of South African Jewry Rabbi Goldstein is of Lithuanian descent. The Ponevezher Rav famously predicted in the 1950s that the South African Jewish community would one day witness a resurgence in Torah observance because its members retained so many of the qualities of Lithuanian Jewry — erlichkeit honor for rabbanim and a deeply ingrained sense of communal responsibility. Rabbi Goldstein is both a product of that resurgence and today its leader. Through his rosh yeshivah Rabbi Azriel Chaim Goldfein a leading talmid of Rabbi Mordechai Gifter he views himself as an adherent of the Telzer derech.
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