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As successor to Rav Kook, Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank was somewhat eclipsed in history, but he got his due with a street in Bayit Vegan and Rabbi Wein’s admiring lecture. With an in-depth look at some of his most momentous legal/halachic decisions, listeners will gain an appreciation not only for the rabbi himself but for daily life in Israel before the declaration of the State.

• his sharp-tongued eulogy for a maskil
• shemitta and the heter mechira
• gelatin – kosher or not?
• standing on the shoulders of giants: Rav Kook and Rav Salant