Chaim Kanievsky
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Sep 15, 2026
Charlie HarariGUEST
Who cares? Hashem.
Charlie HarariGUEST
Rav Levi once told me a story that he was sitting with Rav Chaim.
Charlie HarariGUEST
Rav Levi used to live by Rav Chaim.
Charlie HarariGUEST
Lived by him.
Charlie HarariGUEST
He was sitting by Rav Chaim's house.
Charlie HarariGUEST
Everyone's around.
Charlie HarariGUEST
Rav Chaim is seeing people, and he's...
Charlie HarariGUEST
People are coming and telling him how great everybody is.
Rabbi StarkHOST
if you have the exact pshat in the words.
Rabbi StarkHOST
Someone once came to Rav Chaim Kanievsky with a story.
Rabbi StarkHOST
There was a story about, uh, Rav Chatzkl Abramsky, that someone came to him and said, "I got a blood transfusion." He goes, "Oh, I daven every day not to get a blood transfusion." Where do you daven that? He says, "In bentching, it says, 'Veloli dei matnas basar vedam.' I shouldn't need a present of blood or flesh." I guess that's transplants also.
Rabbi StarkHOST
[laughs] So that's interesting.
Rabbi StarkHOST
The bracha is that you shouldn't get a, a present, you know, uh, uh, for...
Rabbi StarkHOST
Lo yidi matnas basar vedam, we shouldn't be getting handouts from people.
Rabbi StarkHOST
So they asked Rav Chaim Kanievsky, can you have such a kavana to daven not to get a blood transfusion? So he says, "Absolutely.
Rabbi StarkHOST
If it fits in the words, you can think anything you want." This is a very calming thing.
Zevi FarkasGUEST
We need to feel like we want to be all the way up on top, all the way up, all the way by Hashem.
Zevi FarkasGUEST
If we woke up tomorrow morning, and all of a sudden you became a great Torah sage, you became Rav Chaim Kanievsky or Rav Ovadia Yosef or the Chafetz Chaim or Moshe Feinstein, would that be a nightmare for you, or would that be a great, amazing day for you? Some people sadly ...
Zevi FarkasGUEST
Now, I don't know if it's a nightmare.
Zevi FarkasGUEST
That might be pushing it.
Moshe LeviGUEST
So now it clicks, why it's important.
Moshe LeviGUEST
Rav Chaim Kanievsky should be matitid.
Moshe LeviGUEST
Every tefillah that he would daven, mincha will be the earliest mincha.
Moshe LeviGUEST
Mayer will be the earliest mayer.
Elchanan CohenHOST
I'm being really serious.
Elchanan CohenHOST
And to prove to you just how serious I am, let's go discuss the question with none other than Rav Chaim Kanievsky.
Elchanan CohenHOST
Now, this is one of those stories.
Elchanan CohenHOST
Did it happen? Did it not happen? I have no idea.
Shlomo YisraeliHOST
The Rivash says, "A person that knows tshuvot ha-geonim, he's a bakki in, in the questions and answers, the, the, the responses of, of the geonim is a better-- would be a better rav to pass a better posek, even though that he's not very sharp in his mind, just remembers the tshuvot of the geonim than someone that's extremely smart and sharp but doesn't know, uh, those things because he is going to, again," said, like Rashi said, [in foreign language] so to speak.
Shlomo YisraeliHOST
Where is he going to get that from? Actually, something very interesting, um, that some- someone asked this, Rav Chaim Kanievsky, a few years ago.
Shlomo YisraeliHOST
Um, and a few years ago, again, you're talking about a, a generation with computers and everything has a sefer that you can look up.
Shlomo YisraeliHOST
You can actually-- any information that you want, you can find out by, by looking it up.
Shlomo YisraeliHOST
And they, they asked Rav Chaim Kanievsky, "Maybe, uh, nowadays it's different because the information you could achieve, so it's more important to be mefufal and to have the sharp mind and so on." And he still did not want to agree with that.
Shlomo YisraeliHOST
He said, "Look, you know, when, when, when you don't know, you don't know-- uh, you also don't know what you don't know," right? So wh- when you don't know, it's, you know, even a question about this because you've never learned the sugya.
Shlomo YisraeliHOST
You say, "Well, it's pashtut," right? But if you have learned this, you say, "Well, wait a second.
Moshe LeviGUEST
Just like we discussed, the person who was in the vater, he was madira, he kept quiet.
Moshe LeviGUEST
What happened? He still got answered more than Rav Chaim.
Moshe LeviGUEST
Rav Chaim sent him to get a bracha.
Moshe LeviGUEST
The person who shut his mouth and didn't say anything when he was insulted, that was sent to him.
Moshe LeviGUEST
The person who yelled his name bad, not appreciated, and shut his mouth.
Charlie HararyHOST
this is the interplay of midos and tefillah midos and torah it's all one it's a relationship with hashem the relationship is midos and if you have appreciation for hashem and you're not a balgaiva and you're humble and you follow what he's saying and you respect your parents and you take care of your spouse and your children and you are the guy that you're supposed to be your mother on your midos I believe he's referring to the story in which somebody came for a bracha to Rav Chaim, and he went and he sent him to somebody who was mavir on his midos.
Charlie HararyHOST
Why would he do this? He's Rav Chaim.
Charlie HararyHOST
Because he's showing somebody who is mavir on his midos.
Yonah SklareHOST
In the space where we live, this is what we, this is really what we need.
Yonah SklareHOST
And this affects not only our b'nanam l'macham, but I'm going to conclude with our b'nanam l'chaveri, beginning, of course, with the most important b'nanam l'chaveri, which, as Rav Chaim, he tolerates our family life, especially our relationship to our spouses, which is the ichor place of b'nanam l'chaveri, not the guests we have in our home.
Yonah SklareHOST
But as Rav Chaim, he tolerates the ichor b'nanam l'chaveri as b'nashleisha.
Yonah SklareHOST
Right? Because we all know the famous term of devourer, that the Yiddish are supposed to be the model that we implement, that we follow, that we imitate.
Yonah SklareHOST
So if beyond the specifics of the Yiddish, and many Sifri Musa, in a very beautiful way, talk about how we can be more Kabbalah, and that's great.
Eliezer BrodtGUEST
I don't really think anyone could give an answer, but just I came across a fascinating passage.
Eliezer BrodtGUEST
One of the people that I said gave Hespedim, and we're about to quote a few passages from his Hespedim on Rav Meir Simcha, was this Yid, Rav Chaim.
Eliezer BrodtGUEST
This Rav Chaim, hold on, Rav Chaim Cheresh.
Eliezer BrodtGUEST
So Rav Chaim Cheresh, he publishes all different types of Hespedim that he gave.
Eliezer BrodtGUEST
And I mentioned that he gave over five Hespedim on Rav Meir Simcha, all full of fascinating stuff.
Eliezer BrodtGUEST
Part of this material was used by Rabiner and some was not.
Eliezer BrodtGUEST
Anyway, these are one of the many different fascinating stories that they always say over between the two of these giants.
Eliezer BrodtGUEST
Um, okay.
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