[Avodah] HaRav Yosef Ber Soloveitchik on Saying Hallel on Yom Ha’Atzma’ut

[Yaakov Ellis]

I remember from one of Rav Rakeffet's lectures on the Rav (his "Torah
she'baal Peh on the two volume set that he authored) that the Rav's reaction
on this occasion was not so much because of Hallel, but because the students
also recited the "Od haYom beNov" hafTarah, on a klaf, after Torah reading
(YH in that year fell on a Monday or Thursday). I can't remember if it was
with a beracha or not. But according to my recollection of Rav Rakeffet's
lecture, it was this disdain for the regular seder haTefillah (in addition
to doing it in front of the Rav without consulting him) which prompted the
Rav's shiur later on that day. (Apologies but I cannot remember the exact
shiur - it is from this series: http://j.mp/bYEvtH).

Yaakov Ellis

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Yitzchok Levine
<Larry.Levine at stevens.edu>wrote:

> At 01:57 PM 4/20/2010, Ben Waxman wrote:
> >Like many stories of the Rav, there are different versions from
> >different years and different sources. At Maimonides they said
> >Hallel. In Nefesh HaRav, Rav Schechter writes that the Rav felt that
> >saying half Hallel was OK.
>
> Someone else questioned the validity of this also. At his suggestion
> I contacted Rabbi Shalom Carmy of YU who was a very close talmid of
> Rav Soloveitchik. He referred me to his article Teacher Not a Spokesman
> that was published in Mentor of Generations: Reflections of Rabbi Joseph
> B. Soloveitchik by Zev Eleff. In it Rabbi Carmy wrote
>  <http://lists.aishdas.org/listinfo.cgi/avodah-aishdas.org>
>
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