The relationship between the Mishpacha community and its Torah leaders
Imessed up two weeks ago, I think.
I had a conversation with the gaon, Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, the Philadelphia rosh yeshivah.
Sometimes journalists speak truth to power and stare down world leaders, challenging the powerful and mighty.
This is a totally different game. This means sitting humbly before a gadol and knowing that he doesn’t need my questions or arguments to reach clarity, that the words have already been refined by an internal process, probed and scrutinized and examined by a method called daas Torah that happens in the mind of a talmid chacham.
The rosh yeshivah’s objective in the conversation was to reinforce the primacy and centrality of mekomos haTorah, to encourage those bochurim who may feel sluggish and unsure after months outside of the beis medrash, to remind us what the real goal is, after we fulfill our obligations as citizens and human beings. Vayachzor l’talmudo.
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