[Avodah] HaRav Yosef Ber Soloveitchik on Saying Hallel on

[Joseph C. Kaplan]

RRW: "And a chaveir of mine who learned by the Rov for many years said
"zionism? What Zionism? The Rov never talked about it in shiur!"

FWIW this fellow is a member of Breuer's

As Dr. Lamm noted, after the Rov's p'tira the right will claim him and
so too the left

Now the Zionists claim him and so too the anti-zionists.

Talk about "A Man for all Seasons""

While it's true that the Rav was a very complex person, and while it's also true that there is a great deal of revisionism going on concerning the Rav's legacy, it is simply impossible for "anti-Zionists" to claim the Rav in light of Chamesh Derashot, Kol Dodi Dofek and the Rav's breaking with his family by leaving Agudah and assuming the honorary presidency of Mizrachi.  And "he never talked about it in shiur."  So what?; that was shiur.  He talked about it where appropriate; i.e., in his numerous lectures for Mizrachi and in KDD.

Even Thomas More had limits.

Joseph Kaplan
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