Gadol
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Sep 11, 2026
Shlomo ZakheimHOST
The Chavetz Chaim would look at the news, and he would explain the news through the Torah's perspective.
Shlomo ZakheimHOST
And if you don't read a book or a biography about a Gadol B'Yisrael, and if you don't have a relationship with a Gadol B'Yisrael, to really understand what it means to be a fine Eid, it's very hard for us to get an accurate picture of what the Torah truly expects of us.
Shlomo ZakheimHOST
One of the things that shocks many people about Gadol B'Yisrael is that when you meet a Gadol, almost without exception, They are the happiest, funniest people in the room.
Shlomo ZakheimHOST
Almost without exception.
Shlomo ZakheimHOST
They are positive, funny people.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
I don't, I don't feel that way.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
But on the other hand, I do feel that, uh, we, we do have to be mechabed, uh, what the Gadol HaDor says, at least in his makom, which is, uh, Eretz Yisrael, so.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
But again, as I say, I, I don't fully understand what's going on.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
I, as and I say, my feeling is it's motivated out of a general fear Of innovation.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
Another one said, let's say Rav Shmuel, I have a Kabbalah that the Torah is not Makabal Tumah, and nothing bad is ever going to come out from learning Torah.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
And they asked the third one, what do you think? He said, I think it's Machlokas among the Gedolim, meaning it's the way of staying out of the debate.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
But I would side with the one who says that the Torah is not Makabal Tumah.
Aryeh LebowitzHOST
The Torah is Metahir, and it's Mekadesh.
Eliezer GewirtzmanHOST
The fact that we're both in America, could that help me? Perhaps? Maybe? But if not, that potentially is a problem of Rebbe's.
Eliezer GewirtzmanHOST
I asked this question to numerous Gedolim.
Eliezer GewirtzmanHOST
It's a complicated question.
Eliezer GewirtzmanHOST
The best answer I heard was when I asked this question to Gedolim, he says, I always get nervous.
Eliezer GewirtzmanHOST
I ask people to bring back some water.
Eliezer GewirtzmanHOST
I always tell them, buy it for yourself.
David LapinHOST
The fine people don't rush to the, to the, uh, buffet table.
David LapinHOST
I remember my father, when he first came to the United States, he was at the Nigude conference, and the food was brought, the, the main course was brought, and then people started off to speak, and it was Gedolei Yisrael, big Gedolei Yisrael speaking, and while they're speaking, everybody's busy eating and grabbing and pass me the salt and pass me the ketchup, and meanwhile there's a Godol beYisrael who's giving a shiur.
David LapinHOST
So my father wouldn't eat.
David LapinHOST
And somebody, one of the Rabbonim leaned over to him and said, "You knew here.
Moshe ZakheimHOST
Baruch Hashem, I have known of Rabbi Kleinman, um, almost my entire life.
Moshe ZakheimHOST
And he has really-- It's, it's like one of those stories that you see a person, you know a person, and then you haven't heard about that person for about ten years, and then suddenly you're mystified to discover that that person is the author of this Sefer that you've been learning, and the person who's been passing along the Mesorah from the Gadol HaDor, Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky.
Moshe ZakheimHOST
And of course, a Rav in our community and a tremendous leader.
Moshe ZakheimHOST
Baruch Hashem, we have had Talmidim in this yeshiva who have also been Muspalim at his shul.
YudkowskyHOST
"This guest is a very chashuve person.
YudkowskyHOST
This guest is known as one of the gedolei hador, HaRav Feivel Shemar yihu-
speaker_2UNKNOWN
[laughs]
YudkowskyHOST
... chinuh." That's what he said.
12 MINS LATER
YudkowskyHOST
The Menahel, Rabbi Feingold, didn't even know what to say, when suddenly Sammy lied down on the ground and began to roll in the dust, over and over and over, and onto the Gadol HaDor's shoes, so now they were dusty.
YudkowskyHOST
And the Gadol HaDor was looking at...
YudkowskyHOST
Gedolei HaDor are big tzadikim, and they have very lot of patience, and they say nice things.
YudkowskyHOST
They don't, chas v'Shalom, say rude things to people.
Shalom RosnerHOST
Uh, but maybe Maimar doesn't need daas, according to Rebbe.
Shalom RosnerHOST
[in foreign language] or no. [in foreign language] No, a Gadol at least has the potential.
Shalom RosnerHOST
The Gadol has a certain level of daas he has, so he could have daas.
Shalom RosnerHOST
So because he's a Gavra that could have daas, so then we'd allow Maimar, even shalol daas.
Shalom RosnerHOST
But the Katan is excluded.
Shalom RosnerHOST
The Gemara says that Maimar of a Katan won't work, uh, for two reasons.
Shalom RosnerHOST
Number one, [in foreign language].
Shalom RosnerHOST
We know the Biya of a Gadol, that's complete Yibum, and Maimar goes down one notch.
Shay SchachterHOST
So this was a very big discussion.
Shay SchachterHOST
And as I said, there were those, Gedolim, who said, even if we don't agree with him, once he's doing it anyway, because he's following his convictions.
Shay SchachterHOST
He doesn't care what anybody says.
Shay SchachterHOST
This was Rebikiv Yosef Schlesinger, who... was ready to fight till the end about everything.
Shay SchachterHOST
Rav Aaron Leib Steinman, who was the undisputed Gadol Ador just a few years ago, we had the opportunity to live in the same generation as him, but Rav Aaron Leib Steinman came out that he supported Nachal Haredi.
Shay SchachterHOST
And what happened? They broke his windows.
Shay SchachterHOST
there were zealots in Israel who decided they weren't happy with what he said, even though he was the God of Ladar and everyone agreed with him about everything else.
Shay SchachterHOST
But all of a sudden, you don't like one thing that he says? Okay, we're going to let him know what we think.
Moshe LichtmanGUEST
And let's not forget that the majority, all the Meraglim were Gedolei Israel.
Moshe LichtmanGUEST
It says, "Kulam anashim roshiei bnei Yisrael hema." So you can't, you can't, you know, make a decision what I should do based on Gedolim, because we've seen in the past, unfortunately, that many Gedolim have made mistakes on this issue, and it starts in the Torah.
Moshe LichtmanGUEST
"Kulam anashim roshiei bnei Yisrael hema." And they were mistaken.
Moshe LichtmanGUEST
They were badly mistaken, and there's many others throughout history.
Moshe LichtmanGUEST
He is the first one who would say that Jews should be moving to Israel, right? He himself very desperately wants to be here.
Avi ProctorHOST
Mm-hmm.
Moshe LichtmanGUEST
Um, so you have a few people [chuckles] like that in America, but, but what about all the Gedolim here in Eretz Israel? And you're just gonna rely on a few Gedolim in America and say, "No, I don't even wanna talk about it.
Moshe LichtmanGUEST
There's nothing to even talk about because, you know, my rabbi says not to make Aliyah." I don't know.
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