[Avodah] Fwd: Rabbi Hershel Schachter - True Freedom

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 09:06:16PM +0300, Doron Beckerman wrote:
: Why was RHS so stunned? If the high school in question takes metzuyonim
: only (and if he is referring to Nachalas Haleviyim, then it pretty much
: is), then the goal of that high school is to produce people who will sit
: and learn for a very long time, no less than the goal of an Air Force cadet
: school is to produce Air Force pilots....

Only if you think that a yeshiva's most elite sort of product is one who
toraso umnaso. But what if the elite yeshiva isn't an "air force academy",
and the whole assumption that the "pilots" are the elite is false?

I think that's what he was questioning. R' Simcha Zissel Ziv was the
chavrusah of R' Kalman Zev Wissotzky. Can you say which was Rav Yisrael's
greater success: Was it the Alter of Kelm? Or the billionare tea magnate
who used his privileged position outside the Pale of Settlement to
surreptitiously smuggle Judaism (sedarim, occasional minyanim, etc...) to
the Cantonists. A man who earned all his money honestly, meticulously,
and after 120 could answer "Nasata venata be'emunah?" without flinching,
and who learned in Volozhin to the point where he could be a future RY's
chavrusah, while still running a growing corporation?

Perhaps elite balebatim are needed from these elite yeshivos no less
than rashei yeshiva, rabbanim and posqim?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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