tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.comments2023-10-08T14:49:05.398+03:00Explorationsari kahnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07158188626247493567noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-43823520368073413592016-02-09T17:21:22.060+02:002016-02-09T17:21:22.060+02:00Isaac Chavel wrote:
Just found your blog on the s...Isaac Chavel wrote:<br /><br />Just found your blog on the story, so I am a bit late to this party.<br />My son Simi told me the story when he returned from the Gush years ago;<br />he knew I would love it as I had learned by Rav Gustman in the Crown heights days. <br />I have known for a very long time that it was apocryphal, but it was great apocrypha <br />as it had captured both personalities so beautifully.<br /><br />But I heard the Sha'are Zedek story from a young man who worked one night <br />with Rav Gustman at the hospital. When Rav Amital made his first trip to the US <br />after the Yom Kippur War, he stayed in Riverdale for a Shabbat, and they put <br />together a Shabbaton for boys who learned in the Gush. One of the fellows stayed <br />with us for Shabbat, and when he returned from Rav Amital's "tisch" Friday night, <br />I mentioned to him, over tea, that I had learned with Rav Gustman, he then told me <br />that he volunteered through the war at Sha'are Zedek (he parents would not let him enlist)<br />and his partner one night was Rav Gustman (to him Rav Gustman was just an older man --- he had no idea<br />who he really was). At about midnight, things quieted down, and Rav Gustman turned him and said, "It's quiet,<br />we ought to sit and learn." The young fellow told me he looked at Rav Gustman as though he was … . Rav<br />Gustman asked him, "Have you learned Kiddushin?" He said, "No." Rav Gustman told him to relax. He taught <br />him the first Mishna and sugya ten times by-heart, with all the Rashi and some of the Tosafot. Then he said a <br />chiddush. The young man concluded, "Then we davened Kvatikin."<br /><br />So this may a story different from the one you mentioned. Sorry, but I completely forgot the young man's name.<br /><br /><br />Best regards, and kol tuv,<br /><br />Isaacari kahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158188626247493567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-60359520269466609272015-05-04T09:47:31.633+03:002015-05-04T09:47:31.633+03:00another writer: Eliahu Misgav
- לפני כמה וכמה שנ...another writer: Eliahu Misgav <br /> - לפני כמה וכמה שנים בהיותי בישיבה כתבתי את הסיפורים בעלון 'שבת בשבתו'. אחד מתלמידי הישיבה סיפר לי את סיפור החלבן. נגשתי לרב אהרן זצ"ל לשאול לנכונות הסיפור לפני פרסומו. הרב אמר לי ש: "אני לא זוכר סיפור כזה, אמנם התנדבתי במלחמה אך לא כחלבן, וגם הרב גוסטמן הכיר אותי טוב טוב עוד מארה"ב - אבל אני לא זוכר..."<br />ari kahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158188626247493567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-89427162552304433152015-05-03T23:11:39.398+03:002015-05-03T23:11:39.398+03:00Yisrael Dubitsky
to me
5 hours agoDetails
Re your ...Yisrael Dubitsky<br />to me<br />5 hours agoDetails<br />Re your correspondent's "memory" of Rav Gustman zt"l and the learned Yemenite -- while such stories may have happened numerous times to numerous individuals, there is (at least) one such story that has been published, ostensibly first hand :<br /><br />ברצוני כאן לדון בעדה יחידה ומיוחדת במינה, בעדה התימנית, ומעשה שהיה כך היה. לפני יותר מארבעים שנה לימדתי במוסד תורני חשוב ובו שמש תימני. יהודי זה גר במרתף וניזון בקב של חרובים מערב שבת לערב שבת. ואף אותו קב לא מספיק לו אלא בצירוף עבודה שנייה במוסד אחר. לא היה סיפק בידו למלא תפקידו כראוי... ביום מן הימים הזמנתי אותו לחדרי והתריתי בו, שאם לא ייטיב את דרכו הנני רואה אותו כמפוטר. לא קבלתי תשובה, ומאותו יום ואילך מילא תפקידו באמונה ובדיוק, אלא הפסיק לדבר אתי, וכשברכתיו לשלום השיב לי בשפה רפה... הזמנתיו שוב ושאלתיו למה הוא רוגז עלי, הרי מלאתי את חובתי כשנזפתי בו. שתק שעה קלה והשיב שאמנם צדקתי בעצם הדבר, אלא שלא נהגתי בו כמדת תלמידי-חכמים, והוסיף: "אצלנו אין נוהגין כן באדם שיודע משנה ורמב"ם על פה". פתחתי ספר משנה תורה שהיה מונח על שולחני, קראתי בו הלכה אחת, והשמש סיים על פה את השאר. לא האמנתי למשמע אזני. שהרי אף בליטא, מקום מרכזי התורה, לא ראיתי שמש שמתנהג כיהודי פשוט בקי במשנה וברמב"ם על פה" <br />(פרופ' שאול ליברמן זצ"ל, בתוך: יהדות תימן; פרקי מחקר ועיון. העורכים: ישראל ישעיהו, יוסף טובי. ירושלים: יד יצחק בן-צבי, תשל"ו, עמ' שמט)ari kahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158188626247493567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-78168706808135946502015-05-03T12:44:27.772+03:002015-05-03T12:44:27.772+03:00another email...
"A few years ago (12 years ...another email...<br /><br />"A few years ago (12 years or so) at a Purim party at his house Rav Aharon Lichtenstein was asked about the validity of a number of different stories.<br />He said that the milk man story with Rav Gustman never happened.<br /> <br />Rav Lichtenstein's daughter, Toni Mittelman, told some fellow talmidim the following story about the Yom Kippur war:<br />Rav Lichtenstein went to the army to volunteer. He was asked what he can do, to which he answered, "I have a doctorate in English literature and I can teach Torah."<br />He was then asked what else he could do that could be of use, and he answered "Home electrical repairs."<br /> <br />Rav Lichtenstein was sent to the Civil Defense Command. When Rav Yehuda Amital heard what Rav Aharon was doing he told the army that Rav Lichtenstein could be 'useful' doing other things. Rav Lichtenstein then went around giving shiurim and chizuk to the soldiers,"<br /> <br />(I heard about Toni's narrative from a fellow talmid at Yeshivat Har Etzion, Yitzchak Bart.)<br /> <br />Sholem Hurwitz<br />ari kahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158188626247493567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-87906552548678296762015-05-01T13:17:59.644+03:002015-05-01T13:17:59.644+03:00Someone who learned with Rav Gustman wrote:
I hea...<br />Someone who learned with Rav Gustman wrote:<br /> I heard this milkman story a few times during the past week and even told ... I don't believe it. However, there was a somewhat similar story told in the yeshiva about Rav Gustman and a Yemenite street cleaner who knew a tremendous amount of Torah, who Rav Gustman engaged in conversation outside the yeshiva shorty after his aliya and then commented upon in the way the legend reports him commenting upon Rav Aharon. While your surmise about the story of Rav Aharon Kotler may also provide a piece of the puzzle, it sounds to me that this story about the unknown learned street cleaner has been spruced up and transferred to Rav Aharon. The fact is that the original story is more edifying, since it refers to a truly anonymous, poor and unrecognized Jew whose Torah knowledge and accomplishments were prodigious. It isn't a story about mistaken identity and Rav Aharon's humility while allowing a laugh at Rav Gutman's naive error, but a true comment on how there is no necessary connection between a person's wealth and social position and his Torah, and that there really have been serious talmidei hakhamim in Jerusalem working at garbage collection. <br /><br /> I don't remember the original story with enough precision to repeat it to you, but could make inquiries if you want me to.<br /><br /> Again thank you for taking upon yourself to stand up for truth and to debunk this apocryphal story, and may we all continue to learn and improve from the Torah and the truly simple and heroic middot, yosher and ideals of moreinu v'rabbenu Harav Aharon zt"l. ari kahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158188626247493567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-25411750617695142072015-05-01T12:09:29.380+03:002015-05-01T12:09:29.380+03:00someone wrote me -with something he heard from R B...someone wrote me -with something he heard from R Benjy Levine on one of his walking tours of Nachlaot.<br />"During the time of the old yishuv, there were two very great talmidei chachamim, Reb Levi Yitchak gazman who supplied gas to the occupants of Jerusalem, and Reb Betzallel Milchiger, who supplied milk. it was said that when the two met in the street, they would inevitably engage each other in learning, and on such days Jerusalemites would have no milk and no gas.<br />When Rav Reuven Bengis arrived in Jerusalem to become Av Beis Din, he was involved in a complex halachic matter which he discussed with his colleagues which had them all stumped. Meanwhile Reb Betzallel arrived with the milk, heard the problem, and answered immediately to the effect that it was a Tosafos somewhere or the like. Rav Reuven was so awed that he wanted to resign from his post as he felt inadequate to be an av beis din of a city where even the milkmen were bekiim beshas. His colleagues on the beis din had to mollify him by assuring him that Reb Betzallel was no ordinary milkman. I think that is the origin of the urban legend. Perhaps it was attributed to Rav Ahron because of his similarly unassuming manner. who knows?" ari kahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158188626247493567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-73183573260078443202011-09-05T22:23:09.073+03:002011-09-05T22:23:09.073+03:00A similar story is about Mahmoud ibn Esh Sharif, l...A <a href="http://www.aish.com/sp/so/48906422.html" rel="nofollow">similar story</a> is about Mahmoud ibn Esh Sharif, living in 20th cent Ramallah, and his inexplicable connection to the song Lekh Dodi...<br /><br />-michamichahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15903747662338530294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-15776842125073023402011-08-18T02:20:29.868+03:002011-08-18T02:20:29.868+03:00Enjoyed the article!
Do you think internet Torah ...Enjoyed the article!<br /><br />Do you think internet Torah and Halacha is a response to the cataclysm of the Holocaust? Or perhaps, the internet itself is a form of cataclysm? Thus we respond by adapting and harnessing its power as fast as we can...Rabbi Yehuda Hausmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09704844892666415073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-70796596410488777502011-08-17T18:59:38.436+03:002011-08-17T18:59:38.436+03:00http://somehowfrum.blogspot.com/2009/10/internet-a...http://somehowfrum.blogspot.com/2009/10/internet-and-future-of-learning.html<br /><br />http://somehowfrum.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-age-of-psak.html<br /><br />I enjoyed this post and will blogroll you. Please feel free to come and read my blog, as I often post on the topics mentioned above.SoMeHoW Frumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01081274351794701745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-33129220217861288862011-08-16T21:36:59.751+03:002011-08-16T21:36:59.751+03:00Even though so much information is available on th...Even though so much information is available on the web, everyone must realize that Web information is not a substitute for having your Rabbi to consult for certain situations. Prolific information must not become a substitute for personal wisdom and connection.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03978887037442289421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-91190260464754583312011-08-16T19:03:31.210+03:002011-08-16T19:03:31.210+03:00Fantastic! The small size and jet-setting nature o...Fantastic! The small size and jet-setting nature of the religious world lends itself to word-of-mouth haskamos of each rabbi's webpage. Perhaps in the near future, semichos will be doled out not just with a diploma to hang, but with an SSL certificate to verify against as well.Bennyphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12244973199912008883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-7989736373499019032011-08-05T18:47:49.015+03:002011-08-05T18:47:49.015+03:00fantastic .thanks very much , i enjoyed learning t...fantastic .thanks very much , i enjoyed learning this .David Domehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02681693551240265540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-75297724239659619462010-06-08T23:59:54.410+03:002010-06-08T23:59:54.410+03:00Thank you for your brilliant input.
Some thougths ...Thank you for your brilliant input.<br />Some thougths from two former christians in Sweden:<br /><br />The Prophet Hoshea likens Yisrael to Ben Elohim.<br /><br />"When Yisrael was a Child, then I loved Him, and called My Son out of Mitzrayim." (Hoshea 11:1)<br /><br />Even Mashiach is likened to Ben Elohim, isn't he?<br /><br />So, to make a "dibbah" against Yisrael, isn't that to make a "dibbah" against HaMashiach?<br /><br />Now, there must be an equal possibility to make a "dibbah" against both Yisrael or HaMashiach then.<br /><br />In our circle, The House of Yosef is seen as followers of the G-d of Yisrael from the nations.<br />The House of Yehuda, is obvious...<br /><br />Now, the christians have done a "dibbah" on Yisrael. Have the christians any gain in removing that dibbah?<br /><br />Could there be a benefit to repeat the tikun of Calev (House of Yehuda) and Yehoshua (The House of Yosef) in our days?<br /><br />As it is written:<br />"This says HaShem tzevaoth; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the tzitzit of him that is a Yahudi, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that Elohim is with you." (Zecharyah 8:23) <br /><br />Just as Calev (House of Yehuda) reaches out and allows Yehoshua (House of Yosef) to see the clearity and the importance of the Tikva, after his experience in Hevron. <br /><br />"And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: and in you shall all mishpachot of the earth be blessed". (Bereshit 12:3)<br /><br />One more thing:<br />As we know, Yosef serves as a model for Mashiach Ben Yosef.<br />As in the story of Yosef, he, Yosef, makes himself known to the brethren two years into the difficult years.<br /><br />Could he be among us, hidden, so we dont recognize him due to his hethen attributes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-83667834254024374802010-04-01T02:56:31.447+03:002010-04-01T02:56:31.447+03:00Kvod HaRav,
Thank you for this dvar Torah, as wel...Kvod HaRav,<br /><br />Thank you for this dvar Torah, as well as the link to Mois Navon's paper on taam shalshelet. But Shabbat Parshat Tzav afternoon the title of your piece suddenly struck me. Was this a purposeful title?<br /><br />Moadim l'Simha,<br /><br />Akiba in GalutUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15897276807530131150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-61198553097510075352009-12-22T20:12:49.963+02:002009-12-22T20:12:49.963+02:00thanks I will trythanks I will tryari kahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158188626247493567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-37196583030710821572009-12-20T12:46:01.156+02:002009-12-20T12:46:01.156+02:00Do us a favour Ari and look at this link.
http://...Do us a favour Ari and look at this link.<br /><br />http://rebmordechaiwrites.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-configure-windows-live-writer.html<br /><br />You can format Hebrew/Engish add photos and links like working in Word. No need for any HTML knowledge. It makes publishing blogs easy as pie!Reb Mordechai Reviewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-36703243758501876502009-11-25T20:13:31.045+02:002009-11-25T20:13:31.045+02:00Yasher koach!Yasher koach!Miriam Grossmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07226488688035900474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-61096640356444405962009-11-17T21:48:51.968+02:002009-11-17T21:48:51.968+02:00I love your blog but it would be so much better if...I love your blog but it would be so much better if you just learnt to use the HTML < Q > tag.<br /><br />Switch into "edit HTML" option and use the DIV tag to align left or align right each paragraph depending whether its Hebrew or English.<br /><br /><_div style="text-align:justify;" dir="rtl" lang="he"_><br />...Hebrew TEXT_HERE....<br /><_/div_><br /><br /><br />Because this comment box doesn't allow HTML code I've inserted an "_" char. Where you see the "_" just delete it to get the correct HTML.<br /><br />rtl obviously stands for "right to left". You can use lang="en" and dir="ltr" for English paragraphs.Reb Mordechai Reviewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-32097199076744709092009-10-24T22:26:51.988+02:002009-10-24T22:26:51.988+02:001 - yes
correct1 - yes<br />correctari kahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158188626247493567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-36688145630634220882009-10-24T21:33:27.589+02:002009-10-24T21:33:27.589+02:001) Na'ama "playing in service of idolatry...1) Na'ama "playing in service of idolatry" or begatting demons -- this is the Cain/serpent within her? <br />2) This opinion in the midrash and Zohar indicates that she herself exhibited the "Cain strain," contra to R' Tzadok's understanding that here we have teshuva exlemplified -- right?irahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965557389449423261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-19766371697461694242009-06-13T21:57:51.348+03:002009-06-13T21:57:51.348+03:00Indeed god education. I have wrote an bloggpost si...Indeed god education. I have wrote an bloggpost since I read this text. It´s in swedish, but try google translation.<br />http://aletheia.se/2009/06/13/upplyfta-hander-for-seger/<br /><br />/HaggajHaggajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06904618945939659095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053456473364009222.post-72437119489366335692009-05-03T11:53:00.000+03:002009-05-03T11:53:00.000+03:00Hyssop is present in the Pesach Seder!
Dear Rav Ar...Hyssop is present in the Pesach Seder!<br />Dear Rav Ari Kahn. Beautiful Parsha but I'd like to add that Hyssop is present at the Seder. The Kli Yakar draws a comparison between eizov (hyssop) and lashon hara and tumat met. At the first Seder in Mitzrayim, Am Yisrael dipped the hyssop into the blood of the korban Pesach as a tshuva for Yoseph's brothers dipping his coat into the blood of goat (ie as a tshuva for the sinat chinum of the brothers and the lashon hara of Yoseph). We remember this dipping at our Seder by dipping our karpas into wine vineger (a rememberence of the blood). Many Haggadot mention this minhag of dipping in wine vineger rather than salt water. (The vineger has to be wine vinegar as fruit vineger does not conduct tuma and there would be no need to wash hands!!!). The Karpas can be any raw green vegetable (See Kol Dodi on Karpas) including eizov which the Saadiah Gaon identifies as Za'ater hyssup, a type of oregano.Reb Mordechai Reviewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16135349748761291865noreply@blogger.com