The Alter of Slabodka, Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel, was know to say that he didn’t have a yeshiva-a unit of hundreds of students, but instead he had hundreds of individuals.
Sunday’s Slabodka Selection
Modern Uberdox
“I write not because I have the strength to write, but because I do not have the strength to remain silent.” -Rav Avraham Yitzchok Kook zt’l
How different from today when individualism is so frowned upon.
Yes, that “go your own way” style (reference to Fleetwood Mac) was one of the reasons the Alter ultimately chose Chevron instead of Yerushalayim as the location for Knesses Yisrael when the yeshiva relocated from Europe.
Check out these pics:
http://www.hebron.com/english/article.php?id=278