[Avodah] Brisk

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Eli Turkel wrote:
> 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

It is difficult for me to imagine how Gemara could possibly NOT be an intellectual challenge.

Correction: I CAN'T imagine how Gemara could possibly not be an intellectual challenge.

Anyone who is so intelligent that he doesn't find Gemara to be challenging... wow! I know that I'm not the brightest guy in the class, but now I'm *really* impressed!

Akiva Miller

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