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How child prodigy, halachic master, and light of the yeshivah world Rav Nota Greenblatt put the souls of his people first
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How child prodigy, halachic master, and light of the yeshivah world Rav Nota Greenblatt put the souls of his people first
A number of years ago, after hailing a cab in Jerusalem and settling in for the ride, I noticed the driver’s name: Chaim Ben Attar. Chaim Ben Attar?! “Are you a descendant of the holy Ohr HaChaim?” The sainted Rav Chaim ben Attar, originally of Morocco, eventually of Jerusalem, and now resting on Har Hazeitim (the Mount of Olives), is known to all who study his epic Torah commentary as the Ohr HaChaim Hakadosh.
It’s the very difficulties a ben Torah encounters that create the merits that will bring eventual success
Before we begin, it is important to know that there is a Torah mitzvah to be sensitive to people with celiac disease.