For Your Inspiration
The Gedolim Speak
For Your InspirationHaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman
HaRav Yisroel Salanter's two-prong approach to reaching out.
Fourth Annual Convention of P'eylim/Lev L'Achim; Nisan, 5759 (April, 1999)
"The knowledge that thousands of Torah scholars throughout Eretz Yisroel are endeavoring to enroll nonobservant children into Torah schools purely for the sake of heaven fills me with joy. We have accomplished much, but there is still a tremendous amount of work ahead of us, and we need great siyata dishmaya. Anyone that participates in this effort will earn indescribable reward in the world to come.
"HaRav Yisroel Salanter used to say that there are two ways to have a positive effect on others. If a person would sit down to learn Torah in Vilna, a Jew is Paris would not abandon his faith. Torah study affects the Jewish people as a whole. Yet we know that this alone is not enough, for HaRav Yisroel Salanter himself moved to Paris to disseminate Torah knowledge among his fellow Jews. I am certain that it was very difficult for him to live there, but this did not dissuade him. He did it purely for the sake of Heaven.
"We must follow his example. On the one hand, to immerse ourselves in Torah study and in this way open the hearts of our wayward brothers to the beauty of Torah. And at the same time, to reach out in the manner of the prophets of earlier generations, who went from one city to another and spread knowledge of Hashem among the Jewish people."
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