Like every year in the past decade, the Posek HaDor, HaGaon HaRav Moshe Shternbuch, spent Shavuos at his yeshivah with his talmidim in Beit Shemesh.
HaRav Shternbuch delivered a number of shiurim and sichos chizzuk over Shavuos and Shabbos. At one point, while talking at the end of Yom Tov, the Rav remembered something that he heard over 90 years ago from HaGaon HaRav Elchanan Wasserman, H’yd.
“I heard from the mouth of HaGaon HaKadosh Rebbe Elchanan Wasserman, z’tl that there were great people who in their youth were very far from Torah,” HaRav Shternbuch said. “But later on they were mechazeik and learned day and night and drew very close to Hakadosh Baruch Hu – until they became very very elevated in Torah.”
HaRav Shternbuch added: “A bochur before Shavuos and a bochur after Shavuos is a different bochur altogether. We can’t miss the opportunity – each person should accept something upon themselves.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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“the Rav remembered something that he heard over 90 years ago from HaGaon HaRav Elchanan Wasserman…”
Amazing. The Rav was only 6 years old when he heard these words from R Wasserman. Their bodies may become a bit frail but the memory and intellectual skills of so many of our gadolim is as sharp as ever. May he be zocheh to spend many more Yom Tovim with his talmidim.
I think rav elchanon Wasserman said about himself that he was not a genius mind
I heard from Rav Schwadron that a bochur who has the abilities to become a talmid chacham and does not pursue it, on his matzeiva will be written ‘du liegt begruben a talmid chacham, over here is buried a talmid chacham.