That’s what the rebbi, who was both chacham and navi, said.
Now, over four decades after the passing of Rav Yitzchak Hutner, the rebbi who made that remark, his talmid still sees it as a guiding light. In keeping with that guidance, he’s breaking a longstanding policy and doing what is, for him, almost inconceivable.
Rav Avrohom Chaim Fruchthandler, president of Yeshiva Umesivta Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin and exemplar of his rebbi’s vision for “Zevulun,” has been helping not just Rav Hutner’s Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin but also the wider olam hayeshivos for decades with his resources. Now he is fulfilling his rebbi’s directive by venturing into territory that is doubly new: speaking with the media, and speaking about politics.
He sees I’m recording our conversation and says nothing, and when the photographer starts to set up his equipment, the host moves his chair over to accommodate him.
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