[Avodah] Chain of Mesorah

[Joshua Meisner]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:46 AM Professor L. Levine via Avodah <
avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

>
> After looking at the list I sent an email to Hakhel with the questions
> below.
>
>
> Is there a reason why the Chofetz Chaim is not on this list?  Is there a
> reason why there are no Chassidishe rebbes on this list?
>

As shown at the bottom of the second list, this chart is the specific
linear mesorah chain for the talmidim of Valley Torah High School (VTHS).
R' Avrohom Stulberger, the rosh hayeshiva, appears to be a musmach of
Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim, which is why the chain goes up through R' Henach
Leibowitz and R' Dovid Leibowitz and thereby up through the Alter of
Slabodka, his rebbe the Alter of Kelm, and his rebbe R' Yisroel Salanter
and thereby through Volozhin and beyond, all the way up to the 40-step list
that one can find in the hakdama to the Rambam.  A branched mesorah tree,
of course, would also include the Alter of Novardhok, the Chofetz Chaim and
many chassidishe rebbes, but that is not the purpose of this list.

Interestingly, R' Dovid Leibowitz was a great-nephew of the Chofetz Chaim
and learned in Radin until the age of 19 (where he also learned under R'
Naftali Trop), but in the interest of keeping the list linear, the compiler
chose only his rebbe muvhak, the Alter of Slabodka, for this list.

Josh
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