Wolf: I might be giving away who I am by telling this story, but I’m sure some friends (if they read the CR) have figured me out by my Halachic posts anyway. It was Lag Baomer. A Rebbe was a bit tipsy (I think, I didn’t actually see him drink though) and had a Talmid who was very proud of himself and was making a Siyum. The Rebbe got very upset, went on a whole 10-minute rant about how Artscroll is evil and is destroying the Talmud Torah of thousands of Yeshivah Bochurim. At the end he got himself so worked up that he said it has the Din of a Sefer Torah Shekasvu Min and threw it into the bonfire. I tore Kriyah and told the Talmid (the next day) that he could make the Rebbe pay him back for his Gemara. I don’t think he did but he did switch Yeshivos for the remainder of the Zman.
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