Reply To: Denigrating Gedolim

CTR “there are a lot more boys in BMG currently enrolled in college than Ner Israel.” There are also more than 10 times more boys enrolled in BMG; I would be intrested in hearing percentage wise who has more.
UJM “His rabbinic peers (equals) generally called him (in person to him and between themselves) simply by those two initials of his first names. There wasn’t and isn’t anything derogatory about that. The reverence in mostly referring to him as R’ Yoshe Ber is, for the most part, posthumous by those seeking to raise his stature.”
And yet those beneath him should have no excuse to refer to him as such. If R’Yaakov Kamenetzky was called Yankel by his peers no bachur or yungerman or maggid shiur would chv¨sh call him by such a name.