[Avodah] Rav Gustman on Not Becoming a Pulpit Rabbi

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

<<On another occasion, a student who excelled in his learning
received semichah from the Rosh Yeshivah. The student thereupon
decided to become a congregational rabbi. R' Gustman advised
him against doing so.>>

I am always suspicious of such stories. The question is was this his shitah
which I would find very strange or was this his opinion for this particular
student. To become a congregational rabbi requires a certain personality.
Rav Gustman may have felt that this particular was more into strict
learning and not fit for the role of congregational rabbi.

An extreme case is that of RYBS. When Rav Soloveitchik first came to the US
he was "chief rabbi" of Boston. He ran into fights which the butchers and
other fights. and made a better better rosh yeshiva than shul rabbi.
However many other shul rabbis have been very successful and today it is
not uncommon to be both a shul rabbi and a rosh yeshiva

-- 
Eli Turkel
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