Everyone knew he was a tremendous machmir, extremely, extremely careful about every drop of food that went into his mouth. And he was also a kanoi in ahavas Yisrael
P eople might think my uncle Rav Shimshon Pincus ztz”l was a kanoi.
And undoubtedly he was.
If the definition of kanoi is someone who is ready at every given moment and no matter the cost to self to do ratzon Hashem then definitely Rav Shimshon was a kanoi.
Rav Shimshon was once arrested for spray painting over an immodest billboard in his neighborhood. When asked by the tough secular Israeli court cop if he wanted a lawyer he retorted “I need a lawyer? I saved you from a flood! It says that the flood came to the world because of immorality!”
Rav Shimshon spoke at a gathering instituting the mehadrin bus line in Eretz Yisrael and told the crowd that we get used to immodest things and eventually they become normal. He held that one day separate buses would be “normal” and mixed buses shocking to our senses.
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