Was going to say old friends, longtime friends and great colleagues. And its a true honor to introduce them. Joining us to debut his brand new book this is its publication is the extraordinary rabbi dr. Meir soloveichik who was the rabbi at congregations harith israel on the west side. The oldest jewish congregation the United States and. Bye bye legend. And i embrace it. And im the final word. The first synagogue in the United States to offer kaddish for a non, in this case, abraham. So thats thats what linked us together, no pun intended. And thats how we became friends. We are thrilled to have him back. I dont know how the rabbi does all he does in to leaving a congregation. He hosts two podcasts, bible 365 and jerusalem 365. I dont know if one has ended and another has begun. Its still extraordinary, both of them amazing as guided tours as those you who know him can imagine. And he also serves as director of the strauss hunter for torah and western thought at yeshiva university, where he received his rabbinic before earning ph. D. In religion from princeton, i had the honor of coaching teaching with him at yeshiva and at cardozo law school, and they were exciting, stimulating experience for us and i hope for the students and if theres an explanation for my taking my with this introduction, its because as you can imagine, i barely got word in at yeshiva or cardozo, but it was still fun. Listen to the new book. As you see, i put it up there is providence and power and the subtitle you see ten portraits in jewish statesmanship. We may not get to all ten. Tonight, though i encourage you all to buy copies at our debut book signing for the book afterwards at a reception. As i said, the rabbi is sponsoring sushi and its cosponsored as well by the Hunter Center for jewish studies. The chapters range from the biblical david to disraeli, herzl, Louis Brandeis is into the modern era of bengurion and bagan. I know we will all be treated to something unique and memorable with the opportunity to. Explore this history through the and mind of such a brilliant and thought provoking interpreter. We are, as i mentioned, grateful to the jewish studies program, not only for the refreshments, but more particularly to its director dr. Leah garrett, the larry and Clara Silverstein chair in jewish studies, and hunter and the director of jewish studies and hebrew, her own terrific books include, ex troop the secret commandos of world war, which we featured here at roosevelt house and on cspan and the prizewinning winning young lions. How jewish authors the american war novel. So this should be an amazing conversation. There will be a discussion of about 40 minutes, followed by a q a. And for your questions, dr. Garrett will call on you. But please, i know you all have wonderful speaking voices, but wait for the microphone because we our zoom audience to hear all of the questions that you might pose and then well proceed to our reception and book signing. And with that, its a great privilege to introduce rabbi mayor soloveitchik encompassed with dr. Leah garrett on providence and our. Thank you, everyone for coming. And just to reiterate what harold said about president Jennifer Rabb, it is a its such an honor, honestly, to have been hired by her to work with her and to have at hunter such a fierce and proud and important defender of jewish students. And im just very delighted that in her last month here we get to do this event as well. So i usually dont bring you lists of questions, but i had so many questions. I want keep it organized here. So im going to were going to as harold said, were going to talk for about 40 minutes and then we will open up for questions from the audience. So first, if you want to, tell us briefly about your book because it did just come out for those who have not yet read it. And then ill ask you a of questions around it. Thank thank you so much for i want to thank you, doctor garrett. It was a joy. First meeting you and ladies. I went out with you along with the goldbergs who are here and im so delighted to be engaged in this conversation with you. I want to thank my very dear harold, who has been such a blessing. Such a blessing in my life for immediately when he heard about the book offering to host an event around it. And im, of course, delighted to the presence of the incredible neil calzado, who has been my editor in so many rounds for so many years, as well as in this book, as well, i want to also join you, dr. Garrett, and with and with harold and celebrating the incredible, incredible Jennifer Rabb and her legacy in academia and a genuine leader in standing up for the jewish people and such such a great privilege to mark that she has done for hunter in general and for roosevelt house particular, and for the of york and for the United States. And so im honored to be able to take part in this event during during her tenure. The topic of the book is, a providence in power, ten portraits and jewish statesmanship. And what it tends to do is to the lives of really 11 different significant political in jewish history. Its portraits. The final one involves two people. Its a contrast between bengurion and reagan and it seeks to understand lives and the uniquely jewish inspiration and motivation behind the achievements of king david, queen esther, queen shlomo, scion of the Second Temple period, yohanan, ben zaki, abarbanel or, abravanel, as some pronounce it, the Don Isaac Abravanel menashe up in israel. Benjamin disraeli, Louis Brandeis and and theodor herzl. And then finally bengurion and and what it to do is not only to their lives, but attempt to deduce from what they have in, while, of course, noting the differences oh, what is jewish statesmanship and what sets it apart from or statecraft in general. Thats the goal of the book. What does it mean to be a jewish statesman . What the jewish people or judaism or jewish history ask of a jewish political leader . Thats really the goal that we seek to. Answer here. Thats really the question that we seek to answer here in this book. And what was it about particular time period that made you want to write this book and write it now . Yeah. So the inspiration for the book actually in part began with the when i started, when i had the great blessing of teaching the course that harold mentioned. We taught together as, as he mentioned, a class on lincolns statesmanship as and we followed it chronologically and the small role that i played was to work on the impact that the bible may have had on lincolns statesmanship. It struck me as we as we taught this class and we were able to teach it both in the mens school and the graduate school, the womens undergraduate school, ishiba, and then a slightly different version at cardozo is, i began to ponder why i had never really taught a course that focused on the life of a of jewish statesman and really what texts existed that actually described the statesmanship or or the statecraft of jewish political leaders. There, biographies of, of course, certain modern jewish political figures, but beyond that there wasnt much. And i began to ask myself why that was. And i think part the answer is, or at least this is what i came to and i mentioned this in the introduction to the book is that even though the jewish intellectual corpus is is so broad and actually astonishing in its breadth from it covers throughout the centuries, it covers law and philosophy and theology, mysticism and biblical exegesis and so much else. There are two lacunae. One of them is biography so in the history of the west, really from the classical period on, there have been studies of great political and religious figures. So for we have plutarchs lives, for example, and then the realm of of memory or in the realm of autobiography we have say, augustines confessions. There was a there was a great talmudic scholar, modern scholar, rabbi aaron lichtenstein, who also studied a literature at harvard. And one of the things he said is that speaking about the great boswells great life of samuel johnson, speaking about the jewish intellectual, he said, our johnsons have no and as an example he gave it gave the case of the great rabbinic sage rabbi akiva who who led who lived and led in the second century c. E. And then took part in the berkeley on the failed macarthur rebellion. And according to the talmud, rabbi akiva was an ignorant shepherd until he was 40. And then his was changed by the inspiration of. A woman, rachel, who loved and he whom he loved in return. And so what rollyson said is imagine if we had a confessions from rabbi akiva that described his life, the way and the challenges he faced, the way the way we have and we have a an from augustine describing his path spiritual path. I mean you can imagine it today imagine if rabbi akiva today started as an itinerant at, you know, the age of 40 and then became a great rabbi thanks to his wife. Theyd write a bestselling memoir, you know, theyd gone oprah together, probably to tell about his life. Oprah could give everyone a free talmud. You know, you get a talmud, you get a talmud, and you get a talmud and it would be, you know, but we have nothing his we have an incredible legal from him and we have here and there are stories about his life in the talmud the the talmud tells stories but we dont have a systematic description. His life thats thats one lacunae. The other lacuna is political texts. We the other is political tax. We have incredible works. It is written throughout jewish history. Aside from the bible of course which is a political orbit. After that, what we do not have is political thoughts. We dont have a jewish version of the prince which would be very different. Perhaps because of the jewish mind being focused on other subjects. They are not really part of the larger corpus of jewish thoughtr there are exceptions and perhaps had my oddities had access in these politics may be he would have written more significantly on political thoughts. But he did not. And so i thought that this was a gap that i could at least tumble he beganh to fill with this boo. Studying great jewish political lives and to attempt what jewish statesman do themselves. This is the nominal non humble question. Im a humble person. It will be hard to answer. Writing this book and contemplating this for a while, what do you make for great jewish political leaders . I know it is several different great jewish political leadership. The first one also can be seen actually with lincoln. One of the things that came up in the course we talk together was a virtue that lincoln exemplifies. Very few great statesmen throughout the history of the west. And that is w humility. What do we mean by humility . The remarkable nature of lincoln s life especially during the civil war. They did not fully understand it aligned somewhere after writing a famous letter. Describing one of the most extraordinary things they have ever done which is very daring. Explaining the whole decision of why he did it and when he did it urseems like a very strange thig to say. When i was speaking about this, i asked my friend, my other historian, when we were talking about churchill, whether he could think of any great european statement that had humility. He could not name one. Churchill was a great man, but no one would ever describe them as normal. He got in a fight with his butler and his butler said you were very rude to me and he said but you are rude to me but i am a great man. He lightly understood. That is why i chose the title that i did. At the heart of at least the ideal of biblical jewish leadership, not everyone discussed the feature of all times. The heartbe of the leadership is to maintain this dialect. To not be passive in any way. But at the same time, to feel that you are part of a larger plan. That you cannot fully understand the extraordinary miraculous nature. One of the images that i had thought of, a photograph that was taken out at camp david. Playing chess, actual chest spirit and is a metaphor. I chose not to do it because i dont know how many people would remember today from the picture. They thought that they would have a lot in common because they were both from poland. That ise actually why it was put together. They joked that they were poles apart. [laughter] but as we say in the book the challenge of jewish leadership is to simultaneously place chest spirit you can see at the same time that you are near a larger story. The importance of jewish power butt also a mysterious plan. If there are those in the book like brandeis you really never thought that much about profits, the case i make in discussing their stories is their remarkable lives because their stories are so unlikely, at least as far as our role in jewish history is learned. It is interesting that you mentioned andrew robert. I am a huge Andrew Roberts fan and i worked a lot on world war ii. In all the great world war ii historians, he is the greatest. He was a world war ii historian. Hear refused to bifurcate the narrative. Like all the other historian to talk just about that, he always brings in what happened to the eljews during the holocaust. Saying very important things about israel, to. Absolutely. Noticing how churchills, he makes the case, actually, the fact that churchill was one of the few and his conservative circles that actually likes jews made them others. I want to talk about how you you selected into include me about this process. Would one really choose someone who is, you know, dragged to the palace by a very vulgar king . One choice that we read about in the book of esther. As an embodiment of statesmanship. And why would you pick her over some other candidates who clearly wielded power more independently for a longer period of time that she did. The answer is that i think i make the case, not only is she a significant political figure, butis in the sense jewish statesmanship is born with her. I argued in the New York Times about esther as well. What i mean by that is the following. Whats at the book of esther apart from the other books of the bible,go this is really the first one where not only is the voice silenced, but it reflects a larger weight which is prophecy is coming to an end. What is politics throughout much of the bible . Whenever politics comes up is what is told by the prophet. You should do this and then usually the king does not do that in the king is asked by the prophet why did you not do that . The prophet will in an act of astonishing fearlessness act into the throne room. Nathan walks into davids throne room and accuses him right there elisha confronts a much more wicked king showing you what murder also inherits. That also means that the right course is always there. You are told what to do. Esther is the first character in the bible f so not only faces a question of what to do without any spiritual advice, she actually rejects the advice that she get which is from her cousin there is a decree against the jews. And i think there was a regime in persia that is hostile to the jewish people. And the jews are targeted for genocide. The cousinf was clearly and member ofls the larger court of the king that tells her to do what a prophet would do. We and cry leave for her people. Esther essentially says she does not take the advice and she basically says im not going to do that. The king is a material man who does not want to be embarrassed about our friend Joseph Stalin over here. It was not our friend. If she had walked in and said i like to you the whole time of actually jewish, please save my people, it wouldve ended like that as well. She practices realpolitik. She creates a set of situation in which she knows a man that she is seeking to persuade. She turns him by inviting three of them. All three of them to get together for a romantic dinner for three which is a can tell wife inviting her husband and her husbands best friend for her 50th wedding anniversary dinner. Turns him against him and then at the right moment strike spirit i think that she is the First Independent clinical actor in the bible and therefore in jewish history. I think she actually is the inventor, if it were of jewish politics as we know it. That is why give her the credit that i give. Just to follow up on that. If you could pack up a little bit more broadly about if you think there are things about the jewish experience or jewish religion that lent actors the ability to be good statesmen and states women. Of course first and foremost the feeling of the responsibility that proverbs may have placed upon law. The most famous statement perhaps ofoo the book is what ws said to esther. Who knows but perhaps for this moment you came here. There are, of course, moment throughout jewish history like this where so much ways on a single moment. Of course we do not always know when that moment is. And, so, judaism wants us to be constantly aware that a single decision that we make can have repercussion far beyond, far beyond that which we may actually be on the edge one of the stories i love to talk about statesmen, of course the story isth eddie jacobson. I see congressman nadler nodding , thank you so much for coming here it one of the great stories. I am glad that you like it as well. Of course the man to happened to be running the canteen went lieutenant truman during world war i. And then they go into a failed habitat jury business together. It is only because that business , the campaign did really well, truman wrote the best i have a jew helping me to run my campaign and he has crackerjack. That is like his soul resume recommendation around the campaign. Itum fails. Truman becomes part of the political machine. And, of course they stay friends desperate to meet with truman. Jacobson getsme them in the doo. Someone who came from missouri, a jew once said to me, if jacobson had treated truman badly in that business, it may not bee there today. Of course, this story is both the story of individual actors who seized the moment that providence has placed here. It is a story of providence as well. Two of them are together and all for one and fdr is on a train to 1944 democratic convention. And he says, you know, they ask him who do you want to be as Vice President and he says, i dont know. Maybe douglas, may be truman. Had to find a call ahead of the national committeeru to switch t douglas and truman. How can you not believe in providence. And, so, you are aware of moment that may define your entire legacy. Iew attempt to find it throughot jewish history. Thank you. I was thinking when you are discussing the different figures and i will dive more deep into some of them in a second. I was thinking when i wrote my book about jewish commandos, when ipl started the journey, i carried very deeply. They were incredibly heroic and interesting. Over the year or two it took to write the book, there were some that i was just so fond of. They felt like they were part of my family and have an impact on me living with them thinking about them, writing about them for a year. Where there any particular figures that you thought would become part of you, part of your family. Feeling a very deep unexpected connection and why . When i first wrote the book originally i knew. My friends thing that is what my next podcast will be. I also where the socks a treasured possession of mine. There are two figures that i wrote about. , one that i did not know that much about and then there was one that ive known a lot about but have not thought a lot about the latter was benjamin is really geared his jewish identity is extremely complex. And then there is a woman who was mentioned in this book and discussed in the chapter so i think very few do know about. Her mostt important legacy is royalty. The only clean in jewish history she reigned as an independent claim. She was married at one point to the king. Aside from the biblical figure, everyone in my family knows her, butwe you have to imagine, we kw so little about who she was before she became queen. She married a king at a time of rage and hatred. She marries a man to killed i think one of his daughters and put the rest in prison. That husband dies. She then marries one of the other brothers and she chooses who she is going to marry. She is so clearly remarkable that when that king is dying, even though they have two sons who really are meant to succeed him, he appoints her as the independent ruler. Those nine years are seen as really the sole golden age of the entire Second Temple. It was largely not one in which there been an intended jewish government. A belief monarchy before felt to rome. Those nine years where she is working side by side is seen as a golden age. She is the one that we know the least about. And yet she has beloved. She probably, probably, the most beloved woman. Certainly the most celebrated political figures. It is actually hard to think of a political figure post viable that is loved more, male or female more. So, i try to piece together based on what we know. What do we know about her and what is her legacy. Her legacy today is she has a street namedal after her. Actually, the street was originally named after george wife queen mary. Israel decided o that even thouh they would keep king George Street and they changed to a jewish queen. They chose the jewish queen and her partner, the two streets intersect in jerusalem. It is in their honor that some of the best in jerusalem are planted right there. Aside from that, if you ask anybody, why is a street named after her, you would just know that the rabbis like her a great deal. But why. I am a huge fan and the book gave me the opportunity. It began with lectures and gave me the opportunity to really research her life to the best of my ability. I teach under graduate students on modern jewish culture. We discussed what makes someone jewish. Last semester i taught catcher in the rye a jewish novel. The students really pushed back against it. It is rarely, of course was baptized. A very interesting choice. I am always so interested will we make these choices, in particular in regards to putting them together with these jewish statesmen how you selected him, what is jewish about it and how you look at it. This is one of my favorite subjects. There are of course a lot of books about israeli. Most of them do not focus on his jewishness. One does. I am so delighted to alter that book. Im sorry. [inaudible] yeah, you are welcome. Thank you. I read that long before i worked on this book. It was stuck in my mind. If i could quote adam for a think, is that is rarely rather than seeking to do now made pride in his jewish heritage. A centerpiece of his entire political, his entire political status in britain. The way adam describes it is that is rarely took his greatest political weakness and turned it into a strength. It is exactly what he did. It is all the more remarkable because israelis left the spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community in england because they asked to serve as one of the president co or on the boardf the congregation. I am marrying the part, if you refuse to serve after being asked, have to pay a fine. You have fined for not serving on the board so he just left. But the amazing thing is his father. He wrote a book called the genius of judaism. Wasting the jewish intellect on silly things. That their lives were a waste. The irony is baptizing his son just a few months before his sons vomit spot. He was clearly preparing. He was creating a Prime Minister that because he was baptized he could take her. Taking place that his political identity, he would go out of his way to remind what they owed the jews. Famously, leading jews into parliament, at a time when the rest of the party except for one other member wasnt against allowing jews in the parliament. The other party were in favor. Not based just on equal rights which is o an argument in itsel. Based on what christianity owes judaism. Imagine this very jewish looking young manth at the time standing in parliament. He literally said these words. Wheres your christianity if its not with their judaism. Then he goes on to write this strange and fascinating novel. About a christian aristocrat who journeys to the holy land. It is told that basically all of the world needs the revelation of sinai that the jews gave to the world spirit so, someone has tried to work his way up the whole. Would not necessarily recommend to write a novel like that, but he did. But he did. Whatever his views about god and providence were are really not clear. The next biography that is published in 2026 about israeli, actually, i am excited about that. But, what he did have was a deep sense of what the west owed the jewish people. Perhaps even more importantly, he had a deep sense of foreboding about what would happen to the west. If they cut themselves off from the biblical moral message. That is why i am placing that at the very center of his political identity. He deserves to be recognized and analyzed as jewish statesmen. Thank you. I will ask a couple more questions and then we will open it up. Can you talk to us about her soul and brandeis. What they offer us about the complexity of jewish identity particularly in terms of that. Each one is a story that really on its own does not make much sense. Her soul is the story that more people know. A man who lives and assimilated jewish life in vienna. Suddenly seized by a deep sense of the antisemitism is europe. Not as most people think, but as others know the election of hitlers hero as mayor of vienna he suddenly gets into his head to create this movement. It is before her soul. Making the statesmanship. The centerpiece. If youti want to be recognized e have to act like that. We have to be able to come in two kings and emperors and popes and speak on behalf of the jewish people. Remember, this is a man who publishes the jewish states. He speaks to the chief rabbi of vienna. He comes to see him and he finds out theres a Christmas Tree in his house. That is where he was. And then he became this mysterious journey and then dies , you know, a couple years into the 20th century. As he is sitting in that hotel room, you could all stay at the same hotel room where he stayed. I have a deep interest in hotels and, so, i am happy to tell you that it has a minibar. And swedish technology. And he brightened their creating the jewish state. People may not know it. And five years or 50 years everyone will see it. So his story, and i examined his feelings about his jewishness. Only providence explained his story. People often attempt to argue. Merging with something so secular. You can draw the opposite conclusion. That is not my view. A jewish philosopher at columbia who said he was a wellknown atheist. He said Something Like why is god doing this to me. Just because i dont believe in him . Am part of the incredible story of her soul is actually as he describes in a west less known piece of writing, only the beginning of his journey. He came to discover his jewishness and marvel at the history of jewish existence. Brandeis is fascinating. He not only grew up with none, he never really embraced judaic identity. He was cremated at the end of his life. He and his brother used to send each other christmas ham spirit camps for christmas. Not just hams, but hams for christmas. They wouldd send that to each other. Except for maybe i am not hungry and this is a man who grew up in louisville with a simulated jewish parents and even way way back he comes from not traditional jews, the strange jews and he dissents from those jews. But he has one exposure to jewish observance. Which is his uncle. He later changed his name. What made it fascinating, he was a lawyer in louisville. First of all, he was someone that was prominent republican in the 1860s and was in the campaign to elect lincoln president. Prominent antislavery spokesman in kentucky. And he was also an incredibly observant jew. I cite the eulogy in a nonjewish, prominent nonjewish paper about the incredible american he was. He would not even open letters on shabbat. As the paper put it, he could always be found at his local church. As i described in the book, convinced that truly being an american oneti must essentially amputate your jewish identity from yourself. Quoting the tr phrase that we dont need hyphenated americans. We dont need hyphenated american spirit which is, you know, he meant that when he said that is a warning for the jews coming from Eastern Europe emigrating. I always said hyphenated americans ive always reminded of yogi berra. They were calling to find if it was carbonated. To bhu is to always maintain a hyphenated identity actually. Jews are supposed to be loyal to the country. Jews have always been loyal to america and treated them as equals. And, yet, the greatness of america actually lay in the fact that hyphenated americans, what the american exception of liberty expects us to be. I cited in the book one of the earliest members of my book, writing a letter to the constitution, writing to complain, the first time in jewish history that a jew complaints. He complained that there were state laws are prohibited them from serving in state legislatures. In pennsylvania, especially. This is the convention. He broke something with the jewish states. And then he wrote september 1777 who is he writing it for . If youou want this state, here s this day. Brandeis meets a man who had been the secretary. Came to interview abouty insurance law. He was driving this man back to the station and came god. He says his secretary, by the way, are you related and he says , yes, that was my uncle. I admire him. That just inspires him to think this over. He goes from bad to effectively the american head of Design Movement by 1914. While he has a Supreme Court justice becomes one of the most significant for the declaration. Imagining nowadays lobbying for the president. Imagine what the conspiracy theorists would say. But he has lobbying on behalf of his people. So his story is even more remarkable. The chance conversation that sets him on this course. Of course in which he not only i think understood better what it meant to be part of jewish people. It also gave appreciation of what it means to be an american. I think that this is absolutely amazing. Thank you. I have so many other questions but i like to share the floor with our audience. We will do a few questions and then we will have a book signing we have to do quick questions judging by the figures you have cited, contradiction of the jewish contradiction and jewish in whatever state they are in and also the issue of internal politics and there is external where jews play a role outside of the jewish experience. Can youn talk about that . That is a a great question. Thank you. That question is especially relevant with the figures that represent the jewish people. Which, of course, that actually raises the question what is jewish t statesmanship during jewish power. That is certainly relevant to this stage to effectively set the course. Describing his lobbying leadership for the right to create an academy, but also to keep alive the jewish political structure that is patriarchal. And, so, those stories actually from a story of statesmanship focuses on the statesman keeping in his or her mind both what is owed the jewish people, but also how best to engage the nonjewish political world. The questione of how do i preserve judaism after the worst event in history and, also, how do i impress them enough and ask them for just enough. They get nothing. To give a different example, what does it mean whered you are the court. You are lobbying for your people are proud to be expelled and you are speaking simultaneously. Serving in portuguese and spanish. Also asking one of the most brilliant rabbis in jewish history. As well as the descendent of king david. What does it mean to balance all of that. Letting you focus on your heritage. That is a question i teeth out in the book. Of course engagement with those in power on behalf of one people one can be the person in power or one can be the representative of ones people engaging those inet our shared there is such a delicate balance that you described. Not only don we see great examples of statesmanship, we see a certain depth and cup park city that you will not necessarily find with the king of israel in the bible. We have time for one more question. Rabbi, can we talk about the here and now. I am wondering about your reaction to the commencement speech. That is not our subject, but obviously i would condemn antisemitism in all its forms. And, of course, see a terrible warning sign it a danger sign. It is why some are honored and delighted to be hosted. Singing her praises. Lets do one more question about the book. Here we go. How do you see jewish law affecting these leaders . Some are very orthodox. How do you think they transform jewish thought. Jewish law plays a real role in some of the figures here. Not just the rabbis. Obviously, there is one central drama concerning conversion. Asked by the royal family to stay and to convert which is exactly what one of the other leading jews did and of course he famously refused. Everything would have been opened to have. One of the greatest moments in his life. But, jewish law is one of the most interesting and undiscussed stories because of course on the one hand there are these tensions within judea at the time between jews that are advancing different versions of judaism. But, then, when they become clean, at that point during the era of this, strengthening that moment is the protection of women in marriage, at that point it is invented. At that point, the families have strengthened through the creation of education. What you have here is an Incredible Alliance that protected women in marriage and the jewish family. For the survival of judaism. Bringing them into judea. You will find some that has their owneo jewish law playing very little role in their lives. I theorize there the remarkable nature of their story by themselves signed of providence. The interesting fact is as much as the rabbi, it is a jewish clean that i think he emerges as one of the great heroes of jewish law. Not just the jewish people in this book. That alone would be an achievement that would make me very happy. I want to thank you so much. [applause]th i want to thank everyone for coming. It means a lot to me. Thank you, thank you. We will have signed copies of this incredible book. Unless you want to wait for the movie. Thank you. It forgot to thank carol and te roosevelt house. Thank you for everything. Monday watches cspans new series for the library of Congress Books that shape america featuring the federalist a compilation of essays written in 1787 in 1788. Urging for the ratification of the newly drafted u. S. Constitution. U. S. 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