[Avodah] R. Lorinz and CI

[Eli Turkel]

I went this week to a bar mitzvah of a great grandson of R. Lorinz
(former MK for Agudah and about 90 years old). He told a story that
in 1940 he suggested to the CI that students be graded with the better
students going to the better yeshivot. CI was absolutely against it and
said that meant that a lower student had no chance of becoming a gadol.
R. Lorinz continued that some students simply don't have the ability to
become a talmid chacham. CI answered that one of the present (1940)
gedolim couldn't understand pshat in Rashi until he was 18. Had a such a
system been in existence he never would have become a major RY.
R. Lorinz wanted to know who was the RY and CI answered that he thought
it was avak lashon hara and wouldn't tell

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Eli Turkel