[Avodah] Horaas Shaah

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:01:18PM -0500, Michael Kopinsky wrote:
:> Original R' Schwab thought it was lechat-chilah. Then he asked R' Barukh
:> Ber if he should learn full time, or follow mussar avikha and TIDE. RBBL
:> was the one who convinced him that TIDE was a hora'as sha'ah. (RBBL's
:> argument is found in Birkas Shemu'el.)

To add to my history, RSS started out a TIDE-ian, and ended up a
TIDEian, we're only discussing a period in between, when he was a youth
learning in Telzh.

: > Clearly RBBL didn't know German, and little of RSRH's writings were
: > available in Hebrew.
: 
: But Rav Schwab did know German, and was very familiar with RSRH's writings,
: and was apparently convinced by RBBL's arguments.

RSS wrote four gedolim, and all we know is that he was convinced for a
time that TIDE was a hora'as sha'ah. Not that RSRH thought so. Also, he
was a Hirschian-raised boy who was already pausing to ask the question
-- from 4 LITHUANIAN gedolim. I think it's fair to wonder whether as a
teen, the future rav was looking at the answers objectively, or looking
for someone to tell him it's okay to learn full time as he already wanted.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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