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Source for a story about the Mir Yeshiva on the train to Shanghai?
I read this story in an essay from R. Schechter entitled ‘Ego and Humility in Torah Study’:
During the Second World War, when the students of the Mirrer Yeshiva were traveling for a week and a half ...
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Experience Learning in the Mir Yeshiva
Didn't learn specifically in his shiur but:
1 - People have a set place to learn/set place to sit in shiur, but new people might have to fight for a spot.
2 - From what I've heard it's pretty basic ...
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History of the Mir Yeshiva
We have already seen Lester Eckman's book mentioned in the comments above and that it was largely based upon the lengthy 1956 article (in Hebrew) which appears in pp. 87-132 of:
ישיבת מיר - הרב יוסף ד....
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Rav Nissan Kaplan - biography
Rav Naftali Shlita is a Native of Chicago and definitely speaks and reads english fluently. Rav Nissan Shlita has left The Mir and is now the Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshivas Da'as Aaron.
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Source for a story about the Mir Yeshiva on the train to Shanghai?
Rav Schachter read the story in the book "Operation--Torah rescue: The escape of the Mirrer Yeshiva from war-torn Poland to Shanghai, China" by Yecheskel Leitner, page 68.
Here's an excerpt:
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