[Avodah] Brisk

[Eli Turkel]

<<I was told that R chaim brisker was saving bachurim from college by
making gmara intellectually competitve

Was this hora'as sha'ah? I dunno.

I have always enjoyed brisker learning but I doubted its halachic veracity
early on.>>

I dont believe the story. If anything the problem in Voloshin was
haskala and not university per se. As I pointed out RCS himself always
insisted there was nothing new in his drech.

OTOH RYBS has stated that he could not compete for the minds of his
students especially in Boston who attended Harvard and MIT without
Brisker Torah to give them the intellectual challenge.
i.e. he felt that on an American campus of the 1950's 1960s one could
not compete with the atmosphere there by offering "pots and pans"
instead of a highly intellectual/philosophical Judaism

kol tuv

-- 
Eli Turkel