A ceremony marking the appointment of a new Rav for the Ayelet Hashachar neighborhood of Bnei Brak took place at the home of the HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein on Monday evening.
During the speech of Bnei Brak Mayor Avraham Rubinstein, he repeatedly referred to HaRav Edelstein by the title of ‘רשכבה’ג – Rabban shel kol Bnei HaGolah.’
HaRav Edelstein was not pleased by the title, as can be seen in the video below. After the mayor repeated it for the second time, those around him signaled to him to stop.
The Israeli Yated Ne’eman began referring to HaRav Edelstein by רשכבה’ג after the petirah of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, z’tl. In the past, it was used for HaGaon HaRav Elazar Menachem Shach, z’tl, the founder of the Yated, as well as for the Steipler, z’tl, HaGaon HaRav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, z’tl, HaGaon HaGaon HaRav Aryeh Leib Shteinman, z’tl, and most recently, HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, z’tl.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Correction: HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman
c’mon. did you think he would appreciate it?
It was also used for HaGaon HaRav Moshe Feinstein ztvk”l and HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Auerbach ztvk”l.
The problem here is that a newspaper (Yated) assigned the title. Since when do newspapers get to assign titles to Rabbonim? They do not.
When referring to Maran Hagaon HaRav Shach zt”l having been addressed with the title רשכבה’ג it is inappropriate, out of place, and unacceptable to ad the title “Founder of the Yated”
Lkvod HaTorah is correct! How can you refer to a malach Elokim by calling the godol haDor “founder of Yated”…….
I read somewhere that Rav Edelstein said, “You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?”
Lol whether he thinks he should be called that or not, it would be because in reality it should be that way; here he was just nauseated by the fakeness of calling him by that title just cuz some fatheaded askanim thought it’d boost their various interests.