[Avodah] shelo asani isha

[Prof. Levine]

At 09:30 AM 8/19/2011, R. Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer wrote:

>Now, this is the same Reb Yisroel who got up in shul in Vilna on the Yom
>Kippur during a cholera outbreak, made kiddush and ate mezonos publicly.
>
>Voss is dehr chilluk?
>
>The answer to that question is the reason why this incident makes me queasy.
>
>V'ha'mayvin yavin.

This story is reported in at least 3 ways and one of them says that 
he personally did not make kiddush and eat.

 From http://tinyurl.com/3t4uq2v

Akiva Miller <kgmiller at datacorinc.com> said:
 >Several posters have been puzzled about the apparent contradiction
 >between (A) the fact that the great majority of poskim seem to say that
 >kiddush is NOT said on Yom Kippur under any circumstances, not to
 >mention the fact that absolutely no one offers a text for such a
 >kiddush, and (B) the widely accepted story of Rav Yisroel Salanter
 >actually saying kiddush on Yom Kippur in order to impress upon his
 >people how important it was to eat during the cholera epidemic.

I read once in a Feldheim book (I think) on Gedolim that (B) listed above
was not the case. It quoted from someone who was there (apparently) and
the case was that R' Yisroel Salanter told people that if they felt weak
that they should go into a back room where they should eat from some
food which was less than a kezayis in size etc.

Binyomin Altman

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