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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)
Photo credit: AvinaSeating.com

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

”

Do Miracles Build Emunah—or Weaken It?

פרשת ראה

ונתן אליך אות או מופת

מופתים #1

The חיי אדם כלל א' סעיף ה' writes that אמונה shouldn't and doesn't come from observing מופתים which is usually שקר.

According to the חיי אדם, it is self-mindfulness and מסורה that draws a person closer to אמונה.

Reb Yaakov Kamenetsky ZT"L writes that the חיי אדם who was a מחותן and also close to the גאון was a staunch מתנגד and that influenced him re מופתים.

Reb Yaakov argues and claims that מופתים does have a positive effect on אמונה as we see it happened in the times of אלישע.

If I Were A Rich Man

Once on a שבת מברכים I asked מורי ורבי הרה"ג ר' שלמה מילר שליט"א at the start of Davening, we ask Hashem,

"ואל תביאנו... ולא לידי נסיון"

—that we should not be brought to a נסיון. Yet, during ברכת החודש, we ask for עשירות which often brings with it greater נסיונות than those faced by someone who is not wealthy.

He answered,

We begin ברכת החודש with the words,

"שתחדש עלינו את החודש הזה לטובה ולברכה."

The words לטובה ולברכה apply to all the בקשות that follow.

Therefore, when we ask for עשירות, we are not simply asking for wealth. We are asking for עשירות לטובה ולברכה—that the wealth should be a genuine טובה and ברכה, and should not bring with it נסיונות that we cannot handle. We are asking that, together with the עשירות, we also have the ברכה of being שמח בחלקו and of using the wealth properly.

Thus, our request is not merely for עשירות, but for עשירות לטובה ולברכה—wealth that will truly be a ברכה, and not, ח"ו, a source of נסיון.

* Years later, I found the Chasam Sofer on the pasuk, “עשר תעשר – בשביל שתתעשר,” citing the Midrash, which adds, “ובשביל שלא תתחסר.” The Chasam Sofer explains this Midrash with the pasuk in Mishlei,

“ברכת ה׳ היא תעשיר ולא יוסיף עצב עמה”

—the blessing of Hashem brings wealth, without any accompanying sadness or harm.

This was precisely R’ Shlomo Miller's insight that he had conveyed to me: עשירות that comes together with ברכת ה׳ is the עשירות we are asking for at ברכת החודש; it does not bring with it the “עצב” or harm.

* Today I came across the ספר פניני שלמה מאת ידידי הרה"ג ר' עזריאל יהודה גשטטנר שליט"א where he quotes Reb Shlomo Miller's חידוש on עשר תעשר & the Chasam Sofer ושמח לבי

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