Reply To: Reminder: Gedolim had personalities

Randomex: Funny you should point to the R’ Yaakov book – that is exactly what led me to post this. Someone else mentioned to me that the Alter was very shy and had stage fright. I asked him where he knew that from, and he pointed to the R’ Yaakov book, which I had read many times. I was surprised that I didn’t remember reading that. Then he showed me where it said he had “eim’sa ditzibbura” and I thought, I wish I was a gadol so that my struggles with obesity would be described as “ahavas maa’chal”.