Once the students of Rabbi Binyamin Diskin (father of the famous Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin) came and told him that there is a student going through a very difficult time, so much so, they heard him crying in the Beis Hamedrash in the middle of the night.
The Rosh Hayeshiva hid in the Beis Hamedrash that night. A student entered, walked through the dark Beis Hamedrash and went up to the Aron Hakodesh. He opened the doors and burst into tears, “Hashem, please have mercy on me. When my friends are having discussions and arguments in their studies, I don’t dare mix in. But please Hashem have mercy that at least I should merit to understand what they are arguing about!”
Who was this poor boy crying so bitterly? The world famous and Prewar Rabbinical authority, Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor zt”l the Kovno Rav (1817-1896). The Rabbi who Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv looked up to as his role model!
Reprinted from the Parshas Pinchas 5784 email of Inspired by a Story by Rabbi Dovid Caro.
