[Avodah] one way to spend Tisha B'Av

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Wed Aug 15 11:34:43 PDT 2018


On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 04:14:07AM -0400, Toby Katz via Avodah wrote:
:                                  ... also whether or not R' Soloveitchik
: was a straight right-wing charedi, the way he is portrayed by his nephew,
: R' Moshe Meiselman, in his famous book <<Contra Slifkin>> oops I meant
: <<Torah, Chazal and Science>>

: We find in this short passage a fine example of both R' Soloveitchik's
: legendary erudition as well as his equally legendary finesse at eluding
: easy capture....

As long as we don't think this is an RYBS specific phenomnon.

There are many gedolim throughout history who attracted a following due
in part to the same brilliance and subtlety of thought that made them
very hard to emulate.

And so, Talmidim are left touching only part of the elephant, one
accurately (or somewhat so) that the rebbe taught about fans, and the
other (about as accurately) inisting, "No, rebbe spoke about walls!"

Just look at how many different versions of Derekh haBaal Shem Tov
emerged among just the very first generation of his talmidim!

Among baalei machashavah, pigeonholes and party lines only match when
looking at the gadol who defined the party line. Otherwise, you're bound
to find that they have enough of their own perspective to not be typical
of any camp.

You know, like a Hirschian Gerer Chassid.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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