Chaim Soloveitchik

The Rav Baruch Be'er.

The Rav Baruch Be'er Leibowitz, the Talmud Mufag of Rav Chaim Brisker.

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Now speaking about Rishenim, I'll just mention a fascinating thing I came across.

Professor Chaim Soloveitchik, the son of Rabbi Ashuber, Soloveitchik from Boston, who unfortunately never married, he tainas, he has a whole, his shvager, Professor Torsky, wrote a whole, or Marisha Torsky, Hashem Yikadam, his father, he wrote a whole thing on the Raivetz.

He has a whole asagas on his book on the Raivetz.

He, Taina, is a phenomenal thing that the Ravid, Balasagas, his Asagas were very, very shallow part of his learning.

They say something fascinating.

Rav Chaim Brisker, who was from the great Saloveitchik dynasty, one of the great, great families of Torah brilliant thinkers and Gemara expositioners.

That's a bad word, whatever.

Okay.

Anyway, Rav Chaim Brisker, he was known for having an open house, so much so, and he would never ever, people would sleep in his bed and he wouldn't do anything, he would just go find himself a chair to sit down and fall asleep on.

He literally treated his house like a public square, so much so that everyone knew that the whole community would be coming through Rav Chaim Brisker's house, and people would leave taped onto his wall notes like, I lost my jacket.

If you found it, please come bring it back to me.

I live here and here.

It's a difficult letter to read.

And he even received a letter of approbation, a haskamah, from one of the great onim alive at the time in America, who I assure you did not read this book, but since a rabbinic colleague decided to publish it, he was only too happy to help his rabbinic colleague in seeing that the book would not only be published, but would be bought by others due to the haskamah.

But as we know about this particular Godolin, about many Godolins, they used to write letters of approbation simply as a courtesy to a colleague in the rabbinate.

They really didn't take the time or have the time to read the letter carefully.

Yes, Mr. Hauser wants to see it.

When he saw that, a couple of times, he said, from that time on, I started wearing the Reveil of the House as well.

I can also...

I'll tell you an interesting story which I heard from my colleague, Professor Chaim Soloveitchik, who heard it from the son of Reb Simchezele Grieger.

That's why I wrote a book about Shuvah.

Like Reb Chaim Brisker would say that he was a person whose home he had the halachic, he gave the halachic distinction of being a rishut harabim, being a public domain.

his living room space.

And he probably didn't have a living room like we have living rooms.

The Rebbe explains it in some sikhs very interesting way.

There's a famous story with the Raga Tshover and the Rav Chaim Brisker, they were colleagues.

And they were once talking and Raga Tshover was sharing a Kiddush with Rab Chaim, he told them that the fact is that whenever you have to bring together two opposites, you need a third power that keeps those two opposites together.

For example, by Kriya Siyam Suf, water falls naturally.

So this is a big question.

Do you have to understand the details of what you're saying? Now, normally what we suggest, based on Rav Chaim Soloveitchik's Kedush, is that when we say you have to understand what you're doing, there's a difference between understanding the translation of the words, the Peirush HaMelem, and understanding the context.

And Reb Chaim wants to suggest that as long as you have the context in place, yeah, you're in.

You're okay.