“What if we look at our own interactions to discover ways to acknowledge, respect, and emphasize with the other side’s viewpoint?”
A great yasher koyach to Yehuda Geberer for his enlightening article on the evolution of the yeshivah system down to modern times.
I would like to share some anecdotes about the section on davening in yeshivah and the stress at least one yeshivah placed on it.
Rav Dovid Povarsky ztz”l (as told in a pamphlet published by the Ponevezh Yeshivah after his petirah) related that in his six years in the Mirrer Yeshivah, he never missed davening with the yeshivah once, except the day he became engaged, since his future mother-in-law begged him to attend the l’chayim in person, and unless he davened somewhere else, he wouldn’t have made his train. Rav Dovid continued this practice throughout his many years in Ponevezh and said that whenever he was in Bnei Brak, he only davened in the yeshivah.
One time, when he had a yahrtzeit, he allowed a conflicting chiyuv to have the amud, but instead of davening in any of the local shuls, he went to Petach Tikva and got the amud in a local shul so as not to “transgress” his kepeidah.
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