[Avodah] shenatan mechachmato

[Rich, Joel]

R' Micha in his eulogy for Rabbi Ehrenpreis asked:
Meeting Rabbi Ehrenpreis might have posed a halachic problem: Do I say the berakah of “שנתן מחכמתו לבשר ודם — … Who gave from His Wisdom to flesh and blood”, the blessing made on meeting a superlative secular scholar? Or do I say the berakhah “שחלק מחכמתו ליראיו — Who apportioned from His Wisdom to those who have yir’ah of Him” being that this is one of the most brilliant minds I ever met who studied Torah? Do I say both — and if so, which comes first?


In Audios #101  on Hirhurim the following may be of interest:

http://ravkaplan.dafyomireview.com/listen.php?f=%2Faud%2F5770-Halacha%2F5770-55-tzitzis-2-techelesv5g17lmp3

Rav Nissan Kaplan - Tzitzis/Tcheils



A nice matched pair (by me – through hasgacha pratit?) of shiurim on tcheilet/Tzitzit. R’Lebowitz goes through 9 objections to wearing Tzitzit/tcheilet (most from writings of R’HS) and shows the weakness of the opposition. R’Kaplan does something similar but includes status of current "gedolim" sightings.

Bottom line sounds like "Friday evening, Sunday in the afternoon, what have you got to lose" – but change, "you know it don’t come easy".

Economics also may take a part (but interesting to me that a "baal Nefesh" requirement for Chalav Yisrael at an economic cost is considered "standard" while a chance to do a possible mitzvah duraita isn’t. Is it a cost difference?)

Also  interesting is a quote from R’Hutner (by R’Kaplan) on no blessing on a ben brit who is a scholar of secular wisdom.
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