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b"Rabbi Kivelevitz suggests that the next pandemic's effects would be strongly blunted in the Orthodox communities if they began to look more like the 19th Century's model,where mid sized cities housed vibrant Orthodox life in a North American landscape that would be low on population density,and high on quality of life.He admits that it would take an aggressive combined effort on the part of Jewish rabbinic and lay leadership across the full spectrum of Orthodoxy,and demand massive funding for infrastructure,but would ultimately yield life saving results.Rabbi Bechhofer dismisses the idea as terribly unrealistic and questions whether the average young person who is raised in these fanciful hamlets will have the required sophistication to navigate the complexity of a Torah life in the modern world.Rabbi Bechhofer grills Rabbi Kivelevitz about his own childhood as a product of Memphis,Tennessee,and the pair discuss the unique confluence of circumstances that allowed that sleepy town of the South to produce and nurture such a large percentage of Torah scholars.Rabbi Kivelevitz explains how the Memphis model will probably be never replicated,yet it proves the viability away from the Northestern Megalopolis.Please check out Rabbi Bechhofer's illuminating lecture on the Rabbinic response to the 1918 Spanish fluhereCorrection-After fact checking with Rav Nota Greenblatt's son it was determined that his father arrived in Memphis in 1949,not 1951,and was initially employed as a Talmud Torah Teacher.He did eventually become a Chazan,after teaching a few years -gratis-in the Hebrew Academy that he helped form.We apologize for this error.Please leave us a review or email us at ravkiv@gmail.comFor more information on this podcast visityeshivaofnewark.jewishpodcasts.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate"