Ep. 99 // "What Will Bring Moshiach?" w/ Rabbi Heschel Greenberg

Yeah, so i-i-isn't that, in a way, part of the difference between whatever you're getting in Lubavitch and, and what your father was getting? That, like, in Lubavitch, the more you know, the more you're kind of encouraged to, like, take it, you know, keep it under the wrap, so to speak.

I mean, doesn't that change a little bit the whole approach?

I, I, I don't agree with that.

I b- I think that the Rebbe wanted desperately that Lubavitcher bachurim should compete with and outshine Litvisher bachurim in every aspect of learning Limudah.

Right.

I know that from-- I know that for a fact that the Rebbe's, the Rebbe said it openly.

It's not just what I know.

But I, I remember, this is an incident that happened in America Shlichus.

I went to-- And this is n- this is right after the Six-Day War, '67.

So I went to the state of Illinois with Shmarya Schus- Shmarya Schusterman.

He's the Rav of Chicago, Beni Rubin, Shul's son.

Right.

So I knew I'm gonna speak to Rosh Yeshivas there.

So there was a Rosh Yeshiva, his name was Rav Chaim Shachnovitz, who was a Talmud of the Rogatchover, a, a big gaon.

In Chicago?

In Chicago.

And he wrote a few sefarim.

So I, I f- I found one of the sefarim in the library in seven seventy, and I pr- I prepared an Inyan from that sefer.

And when I came to him, I told him that his Chiddush, I told him, I said, "This is-- I heard you wrote this and this." He was so delighted that someone looked in his sefer and was able to repeat what is in the sefer.

He fell in love.

Then I see he's writing something, so I'm asking him, "What are you writing on?" He says he's writing on, on Masechtah Menachos.

I don't think it was ever printed.

And Menachos is where it talks about tefillin, and I had a pilpul on, on Hilchas Tefillin.

And I told him what I-- my Chiddush, and he said, "That's m- th- that's my Chiddush."

No kidding.