Sunday, March 08, 2009

Today Rav Herschel Schachter told a story today about a YU student that once walked into the BM on Shabbos, right on time for davening...wearing tefillin. No-one, including Rav Schachter said anything to him. Until. Rav Dovid Lifshitz (ZT"ZL) walked in, and saw, and approached the boy. He gently told the fellow that we don't wear tefillin on Shabbos. The kid explained that he had a nevuah in which he was told to put on tefillin. Rav Dovid asked him what language the voice he heard used to address him. "English," the boy answered. Rav Dovid explained that it was not a legitimate prophecy, because real prophecies are always in Hebrew. And the boy took the tefillin off.

Rav Shachter cited the comment of Chazal that Shlomo HaMelech was wiser than all men - even shotim. Rav Schachter explained that it takes great wisdom to know how to speak to all people.

1 Comments:

Blogger kishke said...

Good story! Was the boy high when he received the prophecy?

March 8, 2009 at 3:26 PM  

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