[Avodah] Story About Rav Schwab and the Seder

[Yitzchok Levine]

I emailed Rabbi Moshe Schwab, Rav Shimon Schwab's oldest son, the 
story below that I sent out earlier today about his father that I 
received from Reb Zalman Alpert. Rabbi M. Schwab replied, "I never 
heard this story, and I doubt that it is true."

I then sent this message to Reb Zalman Alpert, and he wrote to me:

I respect Rabbi Moshe Schwab, and if he says its not true that 
certainly deserves serious consideration.  Perhaps you ought to 
relate that fact as well or delete  my message. Although I do not 
think so,  perhaps my memory is faulty, and it was Rabbi Breuer or 
another of the WH German rabbis.

Zalman Alpert

>>Reb Zalman Alpert sent me the following:
>>
>>I heard from Rabbi Avrohom Hoffman of Cong Shaare Hatikvah in 
>>Washington Heights that his rebbe,  the late Rabbi Simon Schwab, 
>>ZT"L,  was upset one year when a group of guests at his seder table 
>>were learning rather than paying attention to the proceedings. Rav 
>>Schwab nicely urged them to go to the living room to continue 
>>learning,  "Here we are having a seder and telling of the story of 
>>Yetzias Mitzraim. This is not the time for learning. It is the time 
>>for listening and retelling the story."
>>
>>This too is a very important lesson to keep in mind today with the 
>>proliferation of lomdishe haggados etc.
>>
>>Yitzchok Levine
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