Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam were grandfather and grandson, but they were radically different in personality. While Rashi was serenity itself, Rabbeinu Tam was a volcano, and their temperaments shone through in their rulings of Jewish Law. With this authoritative lecture, Rabbi Wein gives us not just a taste of the characters of these great men, he shows how the issues they grappled with clue us in to the world in which they lived.

• Rabbeinu Tam’s legendary childhood
• wine-related issues – practical Halachos
• Christian relations and the backdrop of the Crusades
• different approaches to apostate Jews