Rosh Yeshivas Slabodka, HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau, who is on a summer break in the Ohr HaGanuz moshav in the north with his family, heard that Rosh Yeshivas Ponevezh, HaGaon HaRav Baruch Dov Povarsky, was also in the north and expressed his interest in visiting him.
HaRav Landau explained: “I learned with the Rosh Yeshivah in Ponevezh Yeshivah. I learned a lot from him but there’s one thing that I really feel obligated to him out of hakaras hatov. Since my parents lived in Rechovot – I had almost no one to learn with or speak with in learning when I went home during Bein Hazemanim. Once, I expressed my tza’ar about it to Rav Berel and from then on he used to visit me every Bein HaZemanim and learn with me.”
“The trip from Bnei Brak to Rechovot wasn’t easy – you had to go to Tel Aviv and from there on a long circuitous bus ride that traveled through the yishuvim of the Shfela [Judean lowlands] to Rechovot. The Rosh Yeshivah made this exhausting trip to visit me and now after 70 years, I have the opportunity to visit him.”
HaRav Landau visited the Rosh Yeshivah on the Alma moshav in the Upper Galil on Tuesday and asked him if he remembers those long-ago visits.
HaRav Povarsky immediately responded: “Definitely – at the Moledet store.”
The Rosh Yeshivah explained to those present that HaRav Landau’s father, HaRav Tuvia Yosef, z’tl, had a stationary store called Moledet. “You think it was a regular store?” he said. “It was a Beis Medrash. He would sit with a Gemara and learn and every once in a while – he would sell a pencil. During Bein HaZemanim, he would sit there and learn with his son HaRav Dov and I would join in.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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5 Responses
I guess it’s only for non-gedolim to stay home during Bein HaZamanim
lostspark… I guess you are having a hard day. get a life
What’s this new-fangled idea of taking a vacation in Israel? Everyone knows Gedolim and Admorim only vacation in Europe.
I suspect the trigger for Lostspark’s question is that there are frequent comments from some as to why kollel yungerleit need “vacations” from their learning, implying that they should be chained to their shtenders and shteig 24×7. Thus, it would seem strange to see their rebeeim off on summer “vacations” (whether in the “North” or Switzerland).
Obviously, everyone needs a vacation to refresh and recharge but its apparently not universally agreed.
They needed the vacation no doubt
But what they said was not simple
If adam was jewish he was not and still the only person in earth what the rav said was jokingly and he meant to convey something to his friend about the cultural yeshiva life in Israel and what it does to this genius old man but if you ask why are there goyim in the world it means that you do not know the obligations that a jew has