[Avodah] Rav Nosson Kamenetsky, zt”l

[Lawrence Levine]

Please see the article at


https://cross-currents.com/2019/06/09/rav-nosson-kamenetsky-ztl/


I found the following from the article most interesting.


My most vivid memory of him was of an exchange just a few months ago. The last time I visited him in his apartment, my son asked him a difficult question about how to explain some apparent shortcomings in the community to his own children. At one point, my son pushed him to better define one of his answers. “But what does Daas Torah say about that?” my son asked. Rav Nosson looked him straight in the eye and responded, “Daas Torah is that you should use your own brain!” He could hardly be called a free-thinker (like the European maskilim were called), but he put individual sechel on a pedestal. I can’t think of a quality that is so often in short supply, and that will be so sorely missed.

I sincerely wish that more people would subscribe to this approach to Daas Torah!!!!!


YL
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