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Before COVID (BC!) I would pay visits (homage) to Prof Weiss-Halivni in his apartment in Wolfson (Jerusalem). A widower his apartment was spartan (the absence of a woman’s touch apparent). It was spotless and almost bare of clutter. He sat at his dining room table with a few folios of the talmud in front of him and a pencil and writing pad.
I was told he was an iluy in Chaim Berlin Yeshiva and Rav Hutner kept him away from the regular shiurim to cultivate him. Then Prof Saul Lieberman saw his brilliance and “stole” him to the Seminary.
I was taken by the honesty of his autobiographical writing and his ascetic 24/7 study of our sacred texts WITHOUT the piety and pomposity that accompanies those who wear their learning on their sleeves and make you feel like an am Haaretz. His humility shines through.
Like a child he recalled recently how “5 yeshiva bochurim form the Mir came on Tisha B’av to his apartment to understand his method in learning! From the Mir! At this age he reveled in the validation from the frum yeshiva world albeit from these bochurim.
Ah we are cursed with the looking over our charedi shoulder for validation no matter how great!!!