On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Micha Berger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:41:19AM -0500, Richard Wolpoe wrote:<br>
: AIUI, Rav Schwab shifted, too. Originally he thought it was a hora'as sho'oh<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">: but later accepted TIDE as a lechatchila.<br>
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</div>Original R' Schwab thought it was lechat-chilah. Then he asked R' Barukh<br>
Ber if he should learn full time, or follow mussar avikha and TIDE. RBBL<br>
was the one who convinced him that TIDE was a hora'as sha'ah. (RBBL's<br>
argument is found in Birkas Shemu'el.)<br>
<br>
Clearly RBBL didn't know German, and little of RSRH's writings were<br>
available in Hebrew.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>But Rav Schwab did know German, and was very familiar with RSRH's writings, and was apparently convinced by RBBL's arguments.<br><br>KT,<br>Michael<br>