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Please understand:

• When a Jew’s “Torah bio” lists very many Yeshivos and Kollels that doesn’t always mean what you think.

The question to ask is whether he studied alone, or with the important figures that give the place its good name. (And what do they think of him?)

Also, how long the stay in each yeshiva? One can visit other places for a short period (“Chizuk”). Was this just for the sake of the resumè or some other peripheral reason?

• When a Jew’s “Torah bio” lists important Yeshivos and Kollels that also doesn’t always mean what you think.

Some allow people to just sit there, especially in the past.

• When a Jew’s “Torah bio” says he obtained ‘Semicha’ that doesn’t always mean what you think.

Who gave the Semicha? Some hand them out more easily than others.

And what exactly does the thing say? What does the person know? And does he still know it?

• When a Jew’s “Torah bio” lists a book or books authored that doesn’t always mean what you think.

Read the book itself. (Assuming it wasn’t ghostwritten.)

And so on.

מהרב אלישע וולפסון שליט”א כאן…

מצאתי:

From the English Parsha sheet, on Masei:

“Rav Sternbuch recalls how after World War II his mother was sure that Moshiach’s arrival was imminent. She refused to wear her best jewelry and nicest dress, stating that those were set aside for when Moshiach would come, and she waited for him every day.”

No, Mashiach didn’t, in fact, arrive then. But certainly Ms. Sternbuch’s realization Hashem was starting the process of redemption, after the blow of that Churban is correct.

Her son’s second-hand idea, that Jewry has merely left the “frying pan” of physical destruction in the Holocaust for “the fire” of even worse religious destruction (per גדול המחטיאו מן ההורגו), no more, makes a lot less sense.

And that’s without even going into the Torah sources (and knowing the past and present)…