A Yeshiva Built With Public Funds - Does The Family Get To Choose Who Leads The Yeshiva? Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz ztvk"l said a resounding no!
This is not a new thought - The same question was asked of the yeshiva in Volozhin.
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CHANGE OF LEADERSHIP: A FAMILY AFFAIR
After Rabbi Hayyim’s death in 1821, the leadership of the institution
was taken over by his son, Rabbi Yitzhak Berlin (1780-1849). For the
next decades, the yeshiva remained a family business. Rabbi Yitzhak’s
death caused his son-in-law, R. Eliezer Yitzhak (1809-1853) to become
rosh yeshiva and when he died, the mantle of leadership passed to his
younger son in-law, Naftali Zevi Yehuda Berlin, the Netziv who governed
it for four decades.
Secular Studies & Volozhin - The Entire Story!
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/volozhin-the-rise-and-demise-of-the-mother-of-all-yeshivas/
I think they see the Rosh Yeshiva as a king and when the king retires, the son gets first crack at the job.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why I do not go out of my way to visit graves of dead rabbis in Uman or anywhere else. Yeshivas and mosdos are essentially family businesses, and the dead rabbis who in life made no pretentions of objectivity when they favored their own sons cannot be expected to intercede with G-d in my favor (assuming that they in fact can intercede at all). My visits to the graves of my great-great-grandmothers would likely be of equal or greater efficacy.
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