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<font size=3>At 09:30 AM 8/19/2011, R. Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Now, this is the same Reb
Yisroel who got up in shul in Vilna on the Yom <br>
Kippur during a cholera outbreak, made kiddush and ate mezonos
publicly.<br><br>
Voss is dehr chilluk?<br><br>
The answer to that question is the reason why this incident makes me
queasy.<br><br>
V'ha'mayvin yavin.</blockquote><br>
This story is reported in at least 3 ways and one of them says that he
personally did not make kiddush and eat.<br><br>
From
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3t4uq2v" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/3t4uq2v</a><br><br>
Akiva Miller <kgmiller@datacorinc.com> said:<br>
<i>>Several posters have been puzzled about the apparent
contradiction<br>
>between (A) the fact that the great majority of poskim seem to say
that<br>
>kiddush is NOT said on Yom Kippur under any circumstances, not
to<br>
>mention the fact that absolutely no one offers a text for such a<br>
>kiddush, and (B) the widely accepted story of Rav Yisroel
Salanter<br>
>actually saying kiddush on Yom Kippur in order to impress upon
his<br>
>people how important it was to eat during the cholera
epidemic.<br><br>
</i>I read once in a Feldheim book (I think) on Gedolim that (B) listed
above<br>
was not the case. It quoted from someone who was there (apparently)
and<br>
the case was that R' Yisroel Salanter told people that if they felt
weak<br>
that they should go into a back room where they should eat from some<br>
food which was less than a kezayis in size etc.<br><br>
Binyomin Altman<br>
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