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| Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner |
" Rav Hutner added in his thunderous voice: "Did you hear this? 'Any talmid chacham who lacks 'da’at''. Consider this - we are not discussing an ignoramus who lacks 'da’at', but rather specifically a talmid chacham. A talmid chacham, who has 'filled his belly' with Talmud and the responsa literature, who is an expert in the 'Ketzot HaChoshen' and 'Netivot HaMishpat'. But if he lacks 'da’at', which can direct and guide him so that he will act with understanding towards others, and interact with them in a civil fashion, he is worse than a putrid animal carcass."
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Rav Hutner also said some people are chazirs & even if they claim they turned a new leaf by washing themselves from dreck, it's like the halacha in Shulchan Aruch that the chazir that came out of the river you still can't make a brocha near it because it's nose is so permeated from the shmeck of tzoiah that washing doesn't remove it.
Someone sent me a picture from Jay Schottenstein making a chassuna Sunday night. Sol Werdiger was not only up to his usual shtick of inserting his face into the photo ops, but the little Fresser was also running around to press the flesh with rich & famous gentiles, like African-American pro sports personalities
Rabbi Hutner zt"l knew how to channel chutzpah:
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In his younger years, Rabbi Stolper was a talmid of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin, where he received semicha and was a close talmid of the rosh yeshiva, Rav Yitzchok Hutner zt”l.
Rabbi Stolper’s attendance at Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin was due to an interesting sequence of events. A few short years after the Holocaust, then-Mayor of New York Vincent Impellitteri invited a German soccer team to City Hall and honored them with a reception. With the pain of the Holocaust still fresh, Rabbi Stolper felt it his duty to stand up and protest what he considered a serious affront to the memories of the six million. He and 12 other people gathered to distribute leaflets and throw rotten tomatoes at the mayor, his entourage and the German soccer team. The reception was ruined and Rabbi Stolper was arrested. Rabbi Stolper’s picture was splashed on the front cover of the Daily Mirror as well as many other papers. The following day, Rav Hutner was eating breakfast together with Rabbi Chaim Feuerman and was perusing a copy of the Daily Mirror. Rav Hutner pointed to the picture of the then 18-year-old Pinchas Stolper and exclaimed, “This young man has chutzpah. We need him in our yeshiva.” From that event, Rabbi Stolper was enrolled into Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin and became one of the central talmidim of Rav Hutner, dedicating his life to disseminating the rosh yeshiva’s Torah to the world.
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