<div dir="ltr">I remember from one of Rav Rakeffet's lectures on the Rav (his "Torah she'baal Peh on the two volume set that he authored) that the Rav's reaction on this occasion was not so much because of Hallel, but because the students also recited the "Od haYom beNov" hafTarah, on a klaf, after Torah reading (YH in that year fell on a Monday or Thursday). I can't remember if it was with a beracha or not. But according to my recollection of Rav Rakeffet's lecture, it was this disdain for the regular seder haTefillah (in addition to doing it in front of the Rav without consulting him) which prompted the Rav's shiur later on that day. (Apologies but I cannot remember the exact shiur - it is from this series: <a href="http://j.mp/bYEvtH">http://j.mp/bYEvtH</a>).<br>
<br>Yaakov Ellis<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Yitzchok Levine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Larry.Levine@stevens.edu">Larry.Levine@stevens.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
At 01:57 PM 4/20/2010, Ben Waxman wrote:<br>
>Like many stories of the Rav, there are different versions from<br>
>different years and different sources. At Maimonides they said<br>
>Hallel. In Nefesh HaRav, Rav Schechter writes that the Rav felt that<br>
>saying half Hallel was OK.<br>
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Someone else questioned the validity of this also. At his suggestion<br>
I contacted Rabbi Shalom Carmy of YU who was a very close talmid of<br>
Rav Soloveitchik. He referred me to his article Teacher Not a Spokesman<br>
that was published in Mentor of Generations: Reflections of Rabbi Joseph<br>
B. Soloveitchik by Zev Eleff. In it Rabbi Carmy wrote<br>
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