R Mintz asking R Soloveitchik

this is just a small, very biased to hot topics, excerpt:
q: should yeshiva spend more energy on talented students so they become gadol bTorah or equally on everyone
a: mistaken question, who said talented students will become gadol bTorah, those who work harder and want it more, will!

q: is it ok to tell ever student that he can become gadol hador
a: MUST say so!
… Today there is so much learning, hundreds of yeshivos with thousands of students bu very little anashim gedolim
q: but there are many who know shas and poskim!
a: they are anashim hashuvim meod, but not gedolim

q: why in EY, they do not learn without money?
a: today everything is for money, from lo lishma will come lishma
up to 200 years ago, ever Jew was observant. it was onl a question – to go learn or to learn profession and live life of Torah and mitzvos
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rambam was expert in whole Torah and science when he was young and so was Gra by age of 20.

q: can you write a letter explaining how to learn the right way, maybe yeshivos will listen to you?
a: am haaretz is always louder than talmid chochom
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today everyone wants to be “frum” – tikun hatzos, peos from age 3, asking for brochos, instead of actually learning
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q on girl education
a: in europe, fathers and sons went to admor, and women went to theater, good girls would not marry students, only old and disfigured ones, and later even they did not want

q: was there a machlokes in Volozhin between beis Halevi and Netziv?
a: no, they had different derech but respected each other, only their chasidim had machlokes. At those times, gedolim respected each other, not like now

q: Zionists in Brisk
a: there was a letter sent around to support keren kayemet lisrael signed by 50 rabbis, including an important rav from Vilno whom I knew personall, he was ver ehrliche and eydel and full of eras shamayim.

q: how to explain that Jews in Europe became non-religious so quickly?
a: yetzer hara of the generation (R Ashi v Menashe Sanhedrin 102)
Maharil Diskin was fighting haskala openly in Brisk and lost his position. Beis Halevi was opposing them smarter and was more successful

q: R Feinstein told me that in Europe there were problems with shehitah, leading to tumtum lev that lead to people abandoning Torah
a: maybe in Russia, in Brisk there were no problems with shehitah, but same thing happened, although there is a sor about Rambam where he makes such connection.

q: I heard from R Kornglass that R Chaim Brisker was known in Brisk as “Rav Haimke” because he did so much chesed, not for his learning
a: everone could come into his house and sleep even when there was no place for household members. His books were taken one by one from the bookshelf, and then bookshelf also because it was empty anyway
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Beis Halevi was poor, all Litvishe rabonim were, some were selling shabbos candles, or were charging rich merchants for din Torah, children were going to beis sefer without shoes, but they were happy like rich families – the worked hard and then went to shul to daven, hear shiur, say tehilim,

q: what was Brisk position about kiruv? people say they are against, but there is Rambam on how important it is …
a: not so, 99% what you hear about Brisk is not truth. Those who are capable should be doing it!

q: but some say it will affect the person negatively
a: foolish! every person should check himself, and if he won’t be affected, he should do it

q: we have learning by phone but hard to find bnei Torah to participste
a: a very good thing to do