Rav Aharon responded, “Is it possible to sit down while talking to Rav Moshe Feinstein?”
One Thursday night, I asked the Rav what his opinion was about Shabbos clocks. He asked me why would I think there was any issue with using them, and I explained that I had seen that Rav Moshe Feinstein ztz”l raises several halachic concerns with regard to their usage.
To my surprise, Rav Elyashiv stared at me and answered emphatically, “There is no such Rav Moshe.”
I responded that I remembered seeing a written teshuvah from Rav Moshe on this topic and could even quote some of his concerns. But again, Rav Elyashiv told me very sternly that there was no such Rav Moshe.
When I got back to yeshivah I looked at my notes and found a reference to the responsum I had quoted. However, I realized that the discussion had not been printed in Rav Moshe’s classic sefer Igros Moshe, but rather in a soft-covered pamphlet called Torah V’hora’ah, a quarterly publication printed by MTJ that featured many fascinating psakim from Rav Moshe. I knew that I just had to find a copy of that pamphlet and show it to Rav Elyashiv. But after pursing many leads, I came up empty-handed.
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