I’m not going to argue about wehter the Rav zt”l said something or didn’t. I’m too young and by the time I got to YU he was completely incapacitated. I therefore have no actual knowledge. But Aryehm, brings out the crux of the issue in his designation of only R. Herschel Schachter and R. Aaron Kahn as examples of the Rav’s exemplary talmidim. I don’t discount that they are close and important talmidim of the Rav zt”l. But is R. Heshy Reichmann, someone with a slithgtly more liberal bent, not a close talmid of the Rav? What about the Rav’s grandson, R. Meyer Twersky? Is. R. Yosef Blau not an important talmid? What about R. Shalom Carmy or R. Dr. David Schatz? As I recall it, R. Schachter is against women learning Talmud. Yet the Rav zt”l gave the first Talmud shiur at Stern College. Who’s derech then is R. Schachter following in his stance? What of the thousands of pulpit rabbis who learned under the Rav? Is Aryehm not able to list even one of them as an examplary Talmid of the Rav? But the fact is as I put it. Determining the Rav’s close talmidim depends who you ask and what you want to hear.
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