tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post869866554600862886..comments2024-02-08T00:38:57.594-05:00Comments on Talmud תלמוד by Tzvee Zahavy: YouTube: Misusing a Puzzling Audio Clip of the Rav in a Book AdvertisementTzvee Zahavyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15833902273722124103noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-9645829947951174212010-09-09T04:03:15.358-04:002010-09-09T04:03:15.358-04:00"No. Gil Student informed me that it was spli..."No. Gil Student informed me that it was spliced to make a soundbite from a 1972 recording."<br /><br />Sorry about that. I got mixed up over which lecture it was from.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-10776252588104773402010-09-06T16:10:28.501-04:002010-09-06T16:10:28.501-04:00I listed several questions to start with that the ...I listed several questions to start with that the artificial soundbite raised for me. I also was thinking about whether to use the quote in my new book until I listened more closely and realized that it makes no sense to me and suspected that it is not an actual quote from the Rav at all. Of course you can take a phrase here and a sentence there and put them together and post them to a blog saying, "Please feel free to share this video of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik speaking briefly about the impact of prayer on the individual praying." Jon Stewart does this kind of splicing on his TV show for comedic purposes with words and phrases from Barack Obama. You can do whatever you want, Gil, with or without marketing research or testing. And it does look like you cannot please everyone, thanks for reminding us. Have a wonderful year.Tzvee Zahavyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15833902273722124103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-34626574346058744602010-09-06T13:55:01.709-04:002010-09-06T13:55:01.709-04:00Here is the original lecture: http://download.bcbm...Here is the original lecture: http://download.bcbm.org/Media/RavSoloveitchik/MachshavaOther/PhilosophyOriginPrayer_1_72.mp3<br /><br />The clip is from the initial four minutes. Judge for yourselves whether it is faithful to the Rav's intention and constitutes a complete thought. We tested it out with people to see if it was comprehensible, and we showed it to people who were (very) close to the Rav to see if they felt it was respectful. We can't satisfy everyone but we attempted to be respectful and faithful to the Rav.Gil Studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12776831546758682126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-41483297001818175302010-09-06T06:53:50.989-04:002010-09-06T06:53:50.989-04:00Thanks to Nachum for pointing out an error in the ...Thanks to Nachum for pointing out an error in the original post. We have corrected it. The OU, not the RCA, is responsible for the ad.Tzvee Zahavyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15833902273722124103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-3575626890079692722010-09-06T06:37:38.756-04:002010-09-06T06:37:38.756-04:00No. Gil Student informed me that it was spliced to...No. Gil Student informed me that it was spliced to make a soundbite from a 1972 recording.Tzvee Zahavyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15833902273722124103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-57088542248414309072010-09-06T04:49:12.207-04:002010-09-06T04:49:12.207-04:00I have listened to the original lecture recording ...I have listened to the original lecture recording of lecture and this is a complete sentence. It needs the context of the rest of the lecture If I recall correctly it is from one of the Rav's 1958 lectures.<br /><br /><br />The recordings are here<br />http://www.ericlevy.com/Recordings/Recordings_The%20Rav.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-57244243247958792802010-09-05T22:30:16.549-04:002010-09-05T22:30:16.549-04:00Really, this is the sort of stuff we used to do fo...Really, this is the sort of stuff we used to do for the Purim issue of Hamevaser. But we were only joking.Reb Yudelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07475293471910146749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-19385595568527687102010-09-05T21:26:55.488-04:002010-09-05T21:26:55.488-04:00I am not a YU'nik nor have I ever been. Noneth...I am not a YU'nik nor have I ever been. Nonetheless, I could not agree with you more. What you describe is chutzpah at its worst.WBBeinunihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02209743809736599449noreply@blogger.com