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Thank you so much for your friendship and support. Hi friends and welcome to the 1840 podcast, where each month we explore different topic balancing modern sensibilities with traditional sensitivities to give you

new approaches to timeless Jewish ideas. I'm your host, David Bischephchen, and this month we're

exploring the American yeshiva world. This podcast is part of a larger exploration of those big,

juicy Jewish ideas. So be sure to check out 1840.org. That's 1-8-F-O-R-T-Y.org. You can also find

videos, articles, recommended readings, and weekly emails. Growing up in the 1990s is when I was

beginning to see a distinction between what we call a yeshiva world and a modern Orthodox

community within the united states of

America. I didn't really grow up being sensitive to that distinction, and it's one that, of course,

we will explore. And that's because my grandfather, who was a part of the yeshiva world, but he was

part of kind of a different yeshiva world.

My grandfather, Rabbi Moshebukkritzky, Zechertadak Levrecha, of Blessed Memory, was a graduate,

the first graduating class of Yeshiva Shafizchayim. He was born in 1915, and he decided at an extraordinarily young age from Springfield,

New York, to join the Yeshiva world, to ask his parents, please send me to Yeshiva. This is pre-World

War II American Jewry. This is genuinely a different world. My grandfather is going to

Yeshiva in the late 1920s, and he goes to a

yeshiva that still exists today, known as Yeshivas Tauravidhas. It was one of the few options that

existed in pre-Holokost American Jewry. And he went there to study under the person who I think is really

the architect of the modern

yeshiva day school movement, the entire movement, and that is someone named Revshraga Fival

Mendelovich, somebody who my grandfather affectionately called Mr. Mendelovich.

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