Rav Gershon Ribner, rosh kollel of Kollel Nesivos Hatorah and son-in-law of Rav Shneur Kotler, has succeeded in applying classical Talmudical analysis and methodology to understanding all areas of Yiddishkeit, bringing out its profundity and sense.
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Thank you for posting. Nebach some people are so disconnected.
Halevai we should all have this problem. How many mothers would give everything they own…
The question on first thought seems ridiculous as was the approach of the Rav. However, I’m not saying this is the case, I’m just saying we have to think but may be written between the lines. Maybe this Yidishe Rebbetzin, is the foundation of her home, works tirelessly day in and day out to enable her husband and children to be fully committed and enabled to reach the levels which they seem to be at. Shabbos Kodesh may be her only time to sit back a little bit, and reading magazines may be part of her way to recharge a little. Being that it seems her family is on a very high caliber of Torah and Avodah, it seems like as the Rav mentioned, she may not be able to fully understand and appreciate the content of what is being discussed, and it may also be for a nice period of time as well that they are discussing whatever thet are hondling for that week. If she is sitting at the table and shepping Nachas for 70% of the time but seems to spend 30% of the time on the couch as she is having a hard time following the whole conversation, and chooses to read a little on the couch, maybe the question would sound a tad more sensible rather then just looking at her as “They sing zmiros and talk Divrei Torah and she sits on the couch”. Maybe we have to rethink what the question really is and think if there is another side to this.
Many girls are pushed into marrying kollel yungeliet but sadly have no chasheevus for the ruchnius and it is written all over every action and facial expression of theirs. This woman seem to be one such lady it is a miracle how her husband still is happy and that her boys didn’t get her poisonous Hashkafa
She was a product of a seminary that talked her into marrying a guy who was too yeshivish for her and now this is the result. Happy wife happy life, unhappy wife unhappy life.