[Avodah] Darchei Limud

[Micha Berger]

More along the lines of RYGB's "An Analysis of Darchei HaLimud
(Methodologies of Talmud Study) Centering on a Cup of Tea",
I found the following on the WikiPedia page on RCBrisker
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Soloveitchik>:
> He had six main students; his sons Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik and Rabbi
> Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik, Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebowitz, Rabbi Isser
> Zalman Meltzer, Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman, and Rabbi Shimon Shkop.

> A witty anecdote is used to illustrate how the three of them differed in
> their studies and related to their teacher: it is said that had Reb
> Chaim said, "This table is a cow," Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik would
> say that the table had the same Talmudic laws as a cow, Rabbi Shimon
> Shkop would say the molecules in a table could be rearranged into a cow,
> but Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz would go milk the table.

My apologies if I am the only person to whom this is new.

(BTW, I found it when I was looking for a collection of anecdotes about
RCB's chessed. If you have a good URL, kindly send it to me (offlist).)

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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