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Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4128 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

I don't know if he composed the entire tshuva on Erev Shavuos or not, but either way, it's fairly impressive work.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

that, you know, that Rav Moshe did that.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Meaning, you know, I was just talking to the Talmudim the other day and they said, you know, some of the stories about Gadolim in their biographies are a little off-putting, you know, like they say, you know, this Gadol was so busy learning that he forgot to get his wife a tea when she was sick or something like that.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

You know, things that like, come on, you know, take care.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

And my response was that...

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Gadolim of a particular stature live in a different way, and the understanding of what their life is going to be like is entirely different.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Meaning, when a person gets married to someone like that, they know exactly the kind of life that they're signing up for, and it is what they want.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

It's what they actually desire.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

I was once talking to a grandchild of Rav Moshe,

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

And I said, I heard some sort of story where on Erev Shabbos the house was busy and he started sweeping the floors and mopping.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

They said, no way, no way.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

The grandmother never would have allowed him to do that.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Their understanding was that he learns, that he writes Shuvahs.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

That was their understanding.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

She never would have allowed that.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

So Ramosha on Erev Shuvahs wasn't baking cheesecake.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

Rav Moshe was writing a tshuva on Erev.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

But it happens to be that Rav Moshe does allow, he has a famous tshuva allowing for an Erev in Kew Gardens Hills.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

So it's not a New York City thing.

Ten Minute Halacha
Answering YUr Shailos

It's a place that has 600,000 people.