It turns out that Rav Benoliel considers himself a talmid of Rav Shmuel
It turns out that Rav Benoliel considers himself a talmid of Rav Shmuel, because in the late 1950s, he left Bais Hatalmud where he was learning under Rav Leib Malin to spend one Elul zeman under Rav Shmuel in the Philadelphia yeshivah, in order to help his younger brother acclimate to the yeshivah’s high school. So while the Sephardic rav bending over to kiss the hand of an Ashkenazi gadol signified the deep bond between the two, it was also a statement of the singular unity that underscored the entire event.
(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 906)
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