The Moifsim Of The Chazon Ish

פרשת ראה

מופתים #2

ונתן אליך אות או מופת

Mori V'Rabi & a Mechutin of mine-  Harav Hagaon Reb Nosson Schulman זצ"ל, Rosh Yeshivas Slabodka, who was a תלמיד מובהק of the חזון איש said:

“ The גדלות (greatness) of the חזון איש was not the מופתים he performed but in his Torah, the ספרים he wrote, and his leadership of כלל ישראל.

By repeating מופתים of the חזון איש you are minimizing his גדלות because that's not what the חזון איש was to be known for.

Only for those צדיקים who are unknown for their exceptional Torah knowledge is there a need to speak of the מופתים they performed.

Their מופתים proves that they belong to the group of צדיקים who are גוזר, והקב"ה מקיים. ”

Reb Moishe Tikuchinski (Mashgiach, Slabodka) with Reb Mordechai Shulman (Rosh Yeshiva, Slabodka)
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This might explain why the vast majority of מופתים are attributed to the תלמידי בעש"ט compared to the very few attributed to the non-Chasidic Gedolim אמבצי

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The Chofetz Chaim

R Aryeh Leib ZT"L the son of the Chofetz Chaim while he was in Warsaw was asked by Chasidim to tell them a מופת from his father the Chofetz Chaim.

Reb Aryeh Leb told them that in all the years he was with his father, he never noticed his father ever performing the slightest מופת.

“ Other צדיקים can & do perform מופתים because of

צדיק גוזר והקב"ה מקיים

My father the opposite was true

הקב"ה גוזר וצדיק מקיים

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